Doing more with less through project management
- Doing more with less
- Reflecting with a fresh pair of eyes
- Who owns your PMO, and
- Disaster strikes – your plan for business continuity
How project management just might solve your digital marketing woes
- Software doesn’t manage creativity and quality – it manages production,
- Process doesn’t eliminate the need for an organisational lead, and
- Technology has thrown a wrench in everything!
What should project management cost?
Building innovation into project management
- Set fuzzy goals,
- Accept that things will change,
- Create slack,
- Encourage failure, and
- Devolve control.
10 reasons there is always a need for project management
- Learning,
- Preparation,
- Exploration,
- Communication,
- Process,
- Critical Path,
- Justification,
- Leading the team,
- Delivery, and
- Managing changes.
7 indispensable PM tips
- Even small projects should have a project manager,
- Start every meeting with goals,
- Document, document, document,
- Nothing beats a room full of technicians,
- Micromanage as needed,
- Build in cushion time,
- Make sure your lead technical person is the best available, and
- Good management makes it happen.
10 ways to you know you’d make a good project manager, whatever that is
- Inspire,
- Anticipate needs,
- Anticipate problems,
- Delegate firmly,
- Focus on solutions,
- Don’t complain,
- Goes in with a plan,
- Minimise meetings,
- Be driven, and
- Foster good relations.
Roundup: top five project management posts
- To build a Gantt chart in Excel,
- How to use a milestone in project management,
- How to create a work back schedule,
- Unofficial guide to being a project manager, and
- How to use cell linking to create a master Gantt chart in Smartsheet.
Focus less on the management and more on the resources
How to audit project risk management
- Define your audit goals,
- Define the scope of the audit,
- Define the audit assessment plan,
- Determine who will conduct the audit,
- Select projects from the project portfolio,
- Request project documents,
- Formally audit,
- Complete the audit report,
- Communicate audit results, and after the audit
- Plan for addressing any identified issues.
Manage risk like a Formula One driver
How complexity is clogging your project environments
- Taking a simple approach, thinning out unnecessary complexity, and
- Favouring the fundamentals – remove environmental complexity first, then process complexity and finally focus on performance issues.
The impact of project communication management on project success
Project management platform Wrike hopes to challenge Asana with new workflow tools
10 benefits of cloud based project management software
- A connected team,
- Reliable access,
- Minimal upfront costs,
- Low maintenance technology,
- Flexibility,
- Security,
- Speed,
- Cost efficiency,
- Integrated tools, and
- Try before you buy.
6 Mobile collaboration apps for smooth projects
- Wrike,
- ProWorflow,
- LeanKit,
- JIRA,
- AtTask, and
- Sellsy Teamwork.
4 classic adages to help you choose enterprise project management software
- Measure twice, cut once,
- Know thyself, know thy enemy,
- Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood, and
- No battleplan survives first contact with the enemy.
Tips for successful project management using agile development
Agile myth number two: agile is about project management
- Agile Myth #1: Agile is a methodology,
- Agile Myth #2: Agile is about project management,
- Agile Myth #3: Agile is short milestones,
- Agile Myth #4: Agile cannot work with fixed budgets, and
- Agile Myth #5: Agile is unpredictable.