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There are often times when escalation of an issue to a higher-up stakeholder is the right call, but project managers are often reticent to do so, for fear it might reflect badly on their ability to handle situations. This is an unhelpful attitude, both for the project manager and the project as recognizing when something...
With the broad lexicon of management speak, speakers, even those who consider themselves completely fluent, can often get terms mixed up. Most commonly this is when two terms that are often used in the same context are used interchangeably and are presumed to mean approximately the same thing. This is the case with risk management...
Managing a project may seem easy, but learning how to manage project budgets takes a special mix of education and experience. A project that falls out of scope can not only put the project in danger, but risks the reputation of you, your team and the company you work for. When it comes time for...
Any project manager wants the enterprise they work for to be successful, but they can’t be successful without software that works to its peak ability. For this reason, it’s essential to ensure that software and product updates are efficiently and seamlessly integrated so they can utilize updated, streamlined features. SaaS project management, or the delivery...
Winston Churchill once said: “To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” At the end of the day, change creates opportunity. The problem is in our attitude towards change, whether we treat it negatively or we welcome it and accept it. The majority of people become used to their “stream of...
Although the primary job of a project manager shouldn’t be to play referee, when team members are closely collaborating, there is always potential for conflict. As ideas are shared, priorities laid out and responsibilities established, every now and then a project manager can expect some push back. Understanding the main causes of conflict between team...
Varning! Zombie-PMO-apokalypsen är här. Cheferna förväntar sig mer än någonsin av PMO:erna. De måste driva digital omvandling och driva tillväxtstrategier genom att snabbt leverera komplexa program i hela organisationen. Men det finns ett problem... PMO:erna har mycket svårt att anpassa sig. PMO:er kan inte längre fokusera på standardisering, styrning eller kontroll när...
Technology has made a lot of things in life easier, but how has it affected project management? To put it simply, it has changed it in every conceivable way. Advances in software, hardware, communication technology and other areas have transformed the world of project management over the last 20 or 30 years, and things are...
In today’s complex, technologically advanced business environment, project managers have a distinct advantage. In the past five years alone, there has been a solid increase in technologies that were built to enhance and reorganize project development with greater synchronicity, making a project manager’s job simpler, more intuitive and more easily adaptable to the ever-changing technological...
The most successful project managers know that to keep a team on track they must find the most operative way to continuously measure their performance and more importantly—their effectiveness. Just as there are an endless variety of projects and tasks, there are countless ways in which you can choose to measure team performance. Measuring team...
