Did you know that most project managers use less than half of the available functionality in their planning and scheduling tools? Some planning apps have developed really good features that the majority of people want and need to use frequently—and omitted features for specialized use cases. When I…
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You regularly monitor the health of your projects, but when is the last time you checked the health of your team? Ensuring that your team has a healthy culture, environment and work ethic is vital in getting and keeping great business results. A…
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More and more people use online, social and mobile tools in their personal lives for things like photo sharing, storing files and chatting to their friends. But when you move into the office environment and talk about using online tools to…
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When you monitor your projects, you assess all the facets of your project’s timeline and scope and dependencies. You fastidiously communicate project status to the team and your stakeholders. You’ve dotted more i’s and t’s than you care to remember,…
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Agile story-mapping techniques can help project managers when they’re working on developing their product roadmap. In this training video, scrum master Devin Deen shows you how. Here’s a shot of the whiteboard for your reference! In Review: Story Mapping Devin talked about…
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Respect means different things to different people in different cultures and age groups and environments. However, I think we can all agree that being respected as a project professional is something that we all strive to attain. Earning respect—and it something…
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Earned Value Management (EVM) has been around a long time, and is seen as one of the workhorses of project management. An in-depth way of approaching project progress tracking, it’s often mandatory if you want to pitch for (and win)…
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Let’s start with a definition. Task dependencies are the links between project activities. Understanding how tasks link to and rely on each other lets you create a project schedule so that everything happens in the right order. There are four…
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Many project managers are siloed in their organization, without the counsel of other PMs (except maybe once a year or so for conferences.) They spend all their days defining the mission for their projects and your teams, but they haven’t stopped to consider their…
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I was managing a critical project a few years ago, and we needed a workshop to sort out the project requirements. It was really important that the workshop went well, especially as there were some executive managers in the room….
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Many organizations have several projects going on at once. That means thorough project resource planning is important because usually, your team members are active on several different projects, all at the same time. Why is this a problem? Well, scheduling becomes complicated…
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Whether you’re hiring PMs or looking to find a PM job, there are core competencies that every project manager should strive to have. I found that I was put on the spot the other day by work colleague who was about…
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It was a small company with limited staff and a national presence, and things weren’t going so well. The board decided it was time to oust the current president and replace him with someone new. The barbarians were at the…
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