Your path to business agility
For many new or aspiring project managers, enterprise project management is the “big show.” Managing large, complex projects for a huge organization is exciting and rewarding in a way that smaller-scale project management can’t quite match. At the same time, managing projects at the enterprise level is also highly demanding, regardless of the methodology. If...
As a project manager, you invest a significant amount of time selecting the right team members for your projects, and getting those team members up to speed on the specific requirements of each project. As the project continues, you work with team members on a regular basis to make sure that they are getting their...
Scrums are great for creating software, but the Agile approach was never intended just for developers. Forged by innovators who wanted to unburden the creative process, Agile makes it easier to adapt in the fast-moving technical age. And since Agile was introduced in 2001, flexibility has become all the more critical. Industries across the world...
When beginning a new project, one of the most important questions an IT project manager must answer is which methodology the project will follow. There are many different project management methods to choose from, and each one requires a different approach to planning, team structure and communication. Here’s a look at today’s most popular project...
The last thing a project manager wants to hear is that their team is lacking or losing communication. A breakdown of a team talking is generally the first sign of project failure. There’s no way you can accomplish tasks if your team is headed for total dysfunction and once you are there, it is a...
Prioritizing involves two steps: identifying the most important work to be done and making the time to do it. Organizations that fail to empower individuals to set priorities and act on them risk squandering their teams’ creative potential. Take these steps to ensure your people can get their most meaningful work done. 1. Eliminate interruptions...
Not every project makes its way to the finish line, and not every project should. As a project manager, you’re almost certain to find yourself, at some point in your career, running a project that has no chance of success, or that should never have been initiated in the first place. Sometimes the fault lies...
Ask any project manager and they will probably tell you they aren’t a huge fan of change. Change to a project means the potential for resource relocation, budget mishaps and delayed deliverables. Project managers spend a lot of time allocating these pieces of a project and having to rework the plan can be messy and...
If you want to learn more about enterprise project management—either because you’re beginning to work on enterprise projects, or because you hope to become a project manager later in your career—the project management life cycle is one of the first concepts you should become acquainted with. The enterprise project life cycle describes the phases of...
No one ever expects a project to go perfectly. Even the most expertly-managed project is certain to encounter at least a bit of difficulty along the way, whether it comes in the form of an unanticipated change in requirements, the departure of an important team member or any of a dozen other potential issues. Depending...
