Your path to business agility
2017 is right around the corner. Even if you’re in the middle of an intense project at the moment, the end of the year is still a good time to reflect on the successes you’ve enjoyed and the challenges you’ve faced throughout the year. While you’re taking stock of the year that’s passed, why not...
Project management is a tricky position, with PMs obliged to balance stakeholder demands and team capabilities while keeping their projects aligned with company goals and most of all, ensuring project success. In the midst of all this, it’s understandable that some actions become habits, forming part of the project management “process.” Often, however, these habits...
At some point, many project managers consider going back to school to earn their master’s degree. Some look at a master’s in project management as an alternative to earning a PMP or other project management certification and others wonder if an advanced project management degree is a worthwhile investment even after earning PMP credentials. There...
No IT team can afford to rest on its success. Year after year, as projects grow in complexity and budgets become more restrictive, even high-performing IT teams may find themselves under pressure to do more with less. If you are wondering how to increase the productivity of your IT team, these five tips can help...
Is it time for a change? If your organization is using outdated enterprise project management software—or not using project management software at all–you can dramatically improve your efficiency and project outcomes by moving to a better solution. Enterprise project management solutions continue to evolve, providing new functionality and greater flexibility than ever before. Searching for...
Increasingly, complexity is the name of the game in project management. For enterprise-level service organizations, challenges come from both inside and outside the business. Particular projects carry inherent complexity, while the evolving nature of project management continually expands the methodologies, techniques and tools at managers’ disposal. So how can project managers keep projects on track...
No two organizations are alike. Even companies in the same industry, with similar numbers of employees and who offer similar products or services, can have radically different approaches to staffing and managing projects. Unique requirements in areas like system integration, or complex relationships with business partners, can create even more differences between outwardly similar businesses....
For a project manager working with a trusted team, the switch from other working styles to an agile methodology can seem daunting. While older project management methodologies are on their way to being phased out, it doesn’t mean that becoming business agile has to come as a challenge. Here are a few ways to get...
Transitioning to something new can be difficult, which is why many businesses are finding that rather than shifting to an entirely new project management methodology, the path of least resistance lies in a hybrid stage between different methodologies. The common mix that forms a hybrid methodology project management approach is between Agile methodologies, such as...
Identifying project management problems is one thing, but what about solving them? No one wants to work with someone who simply raises issues without suggesting the best ways to fix them. That type of negative approach can slow down a career in any field, but in project management, it is simply not acceptable. Today’s enterprise...
