Five Factors ensuring project success
The priority of the success factors for projects - in general – differs, based on the industry, type, and size of the project. For instance, the ...
List of General Articles
Prioritisation is key skill
I teach prioritisation methods to decision makers, to create a portfolio of change initiatives that the organisation has the capacity to deliver. Many ...
Beyond the I-shaped employee
In an era of adaptation and better ways of working in the context of continuous performance improvements, people in becoming more flexible have inevit ...
Why do stakeholders sometimes resist in sharing information?
We get this in all type of projects, resistance! Understanding why it happens help dealing with it. It requires effective communication skills to help ...
How to face coronavirus from Project Management perspective?
We all know how this pandemic had a huge impact on everyone, personal and global! The fast response was required from industries leading humanity to g ...
How does Emotional Intelligence serve project managers while managing complex projects?
When working on a project, program, or portfolio, you are dealing with different people and mindsets. Soft skills are highly required to manage such c ...
What is the impact of AI on Project Management?
Big Topic! AI, machine learning and big data come up a lot now in top industries. We have a complete edition on AI within project management, and he ...
As a project manager, what is the first thing that you check | do on daily basis to manage your project?
People do things differently, as long as it works for you then it's perfect. We might get inspired from different ways and approaches of other's ...
What is the best methodology (Waterfall | Agile | Hybrid) to manage a project nowadays? and why?
A very hot topic that comes in every PM conversation when they meet! We are sure that there is no best way, however, there is a best practice ...
What is the top challenge for Project Managers nowadays? and what is the best way to deal with?
Challenges are part of everyday life, for project managers a challenge can be a great opportunity! It's always insightful to see how project man ...
Smart KPIs for The Digital Economy
The “do-or-die” mandate for Digital Transformation, has become the most important strategic decision for all enterprises, in every market ...
All Managers ARE Project Managers – They Just Don’t Know It!
The project requirements document was the next topic on the agenda. As the project manager, Mary Carol was more than a bit concerned. Sandy, the funct ...
Leadership in Project Management
Victorious project managers are people who practice both strong management skills and effective leadership skills as well. Leadership skills are not t ...
Work from home - a new outlook to project management
As humanity begins to recover from this pandemic, and as we look beyond it from a future perspective, we see many things that have possibly made perma ...
“Corona-Home-Office-Leadership” for Project Managers
Due to the Home-Office regulations in Germany, I have personally not seen my project team face-to-face for over 10 Months now. From one day to another ...
Good organisational governance – make it happen!
When an organisation manages numerous projects and programmes within one or more portfolios, ensuring that an integrated and efficient portfolio, prog ...
Is it you, or is it me?
A lot of projects fail despite all the effort put in them. This article will target transformation projects, having one of the highest failure rates, ...
eProcurement: Skills, Knowledge, and Strategic contribution
Introduction The introduction of eProcurement systems has radically changed the nature of the skills and knowledge required of Supply Management Pers ...
Benefits realisation – Everyone is responsible
Managing Benefits by Steve Jenner highlights that a common misconception about benefits identification, measurement, management and realisation is the ...
Wisdom of Failure on projects destined to fail
When you look for the best resource to recruit for projects, you should always have substantial weightage for their 'wisdom of failure.' It is one of ...
A hero’s journey to project management
The #Hero's Journey is a classic story structure that's shared by stories worldwide. Coined by academic Joseph Campbell in 1949, it refers to a wide-r ...
Project Management Swiss Cheese Model
In the Swiss cheese model, an organisation's defences when applied to project management are modelled as a series of protective layers, represent ...
Re-setting the agenda for project management in 2021
I am currently working with a very talented project manager and seeing her tackle all of her daily challenges reminds me what an amazingly broad skill ...
5 Areas a Successful Project Manager Should Focus on in 2021
The world has changed already. Project Management has to change as well. We, project managers and leaders, need to adapt to new realities of remote w ...
M.A.S.S.I.V.E. Projects for sustainable development
The current period the world is living in relation to economic, social, environmental aspects, put peoples in front of important decisi ...
The Global Alliance PMOhackathon: Debunking Remote Working Myths
Introduction: The Impact of COVID-19 on business as usual or rather post-COVID-19 Many organizations across the globe began with digital transformati ...
Effects of Remote Management Implementation during state of emergency (COVID-19)
In this article, we discuss the effects of remote management implementation during the state of emergency (COVID-19), we all know remote management is ...
Another way to buid a Gantt
Can projects always be managed with a Masterplan based not on the actual time of individual tasks? In other words, the projects always ha ...
Remote Control
When I was a child, I got a gift on my birthday, which was a car moving and controlled remotely. Certainly I couldn’t imagine by that time the i ...
Remote Teams
The modern workplace has truly evolved in a short period of time; with new technologies and capabilities providing employees a chance to work remotely ...
COVID-19, considerations and steps
There is no doubt that we are dealing with worldwide force Majeure that is impacting everything and everyone, sometimes we face crises that might have ...
Overcoming Remote Working Challenges during Covid-19
In the meanwhile, the world is facing a health war affecting every aspect of the human’s life. Coronavirus or Covid-19 has pushed many companies ...
Remote Project Management and Teams
At the time I am writing these sentences there is a dark satire changing hands in social media which looks like a questionnaire asking: Who led the d ...
Can COVID-19 make working remotely work style stick forever?
Hello!!! from the other side, well today we are not talking about the song from Adele but actually how people are working from home during COVID-19 an ...
Remote project management and teams
Remote working is of course not an entirely new concept; most organisations today allow at least some level of work-from-home flexibility, more so tod ...
Getting your workplace ready for COVID-19
In January 2020 the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak of a&nbs ...
Crisis Management between Danger and Opportunity
Crisis is a bad reputation word, when the word crisis heard it is perceived as sudden plight that needs massive efforts to contain the damage, unusual ...
How does a project manager lead in a project crisis and turn the ship around before it sinks? (By Sanjay)
Over the years I have read quite several articles and books on crisis management and from them, I have distilled a set of principles and practices tha ...
How does a project manager lead in a project crisis and turn the ship around before it sinks? (By Mamta)
“Be Prepared” are the two words which can help any project manager to turn around the sinking ship. But by just being prepared is enough, ...
How does a project manager lead in a project crisis and turn the ship around before it sinks? (by Sean)
If the project manager (PM) waits until a crisis hits before preparing, there’s little doubt why the project is in crisis. Regardless of a proje ...
Crisis Management
In a projects crisis happens, surprisingly, more often than anyone can think of. When Captain Edward J. Smith, the captain of the infamous ship & ...
Crisis Management in Project Management and Agile Delivery
For as far as dawn of civilization, barely any major work had ever been completed, regardless of the approach used in managing the work and delivering ...
Crisis Management for PMs
Crisis in a project is the situation which makes the project very much unstable and makes the people of that project in panic. The main fear factor is ...
Managing project crises using the Cynefin framework
Credentialed, experienced and competent project portfolio management professionals know that projects rarely go according to plan. This is why plannin ...
IS LEADERSHIP THE DIFFERENTIATING FACTOR IN TIMES OF CRISIS?
Miracle on the Hudson Imagine yourself on the flight of US Airways 1549, Airbus A320 that took off from New York City's LaGuardia Airpor ...
17 Lessons Project Managers Can Learn From Crisis Management
In my spare time, I enjoy reading books on topics from other industries or disciplines that are related to project recovery and project management. On ...
Crisis Management on Campus
In April of 2009, I was a vice-provost at UT Austin, preparing to head to China with a delegation from the Provost’s office to work on collabora ...
Why Being an Emotionally Intelligent Project Manager is Important
With deadlines looming, expenses piling up, last minute troubleshooting and changes, and long hours in the office, how could you not hit the wall of o ...
Strong Emotional Intelligence Influences Project Leadership and Project Success
WHAT IF... ALL PROJECT LEADERS AND TEAM MEMBERS HAD A STRONG SENSE OF SELF AND OF OTHERS? AND WERE ABLE TO COLLABORATIVELY WORK WELL WIT ...
Emotional intelligence is a critical skill for Project
Emotional intelligence is a critical skill for Project, Programme, Change and Portfolio Managers. The essence of our work is to persuade our stakehold ...
People: Emotional Intelligence and Project Success
When Emotional Intelligence was first introduced to the workplace, many people (including me) didn’t think feelings belonged in the workplace. W ...
Emotional Intelligence in Project Management (by Arman)
Humans, as the most prominent primates, are significantly emotional beings. When something deeply affects us, it triggers a variety of emotions in us ...
Emotional Intelligence for Next-Gen PMs
What is emotional intelligence? Before we understand and discuss Emotional Intelligence (EQ) for Project Managers, let's ...
Improving EI in Workplace
There is no separation of mind and emotions; emotions, thinking and learning are all linked – Eric Jensen. The rapid growth of industry has inc ...
Emotional Intelligence in Project Management (by Jonathan)
This is another entry in a series of posts that covers different aspects relating to Scrum, being a Scrum Master, and everything Agile. These are the ...
Emotional Intelligence in Project Management (by Milvio)
Emotional intelligence is typically defined as the capacity to be aware of, control, and express one's emotions, and to handle interpersonal relations ...
The Missing D N A Chromosome in Project Management
In response to the project management magazine Feb2020, discussing the series of project manager DNA. This article sheds the light on the emotion ...
Emotional Intellegence for Project Managers
‘Our Emotions need to be as educated as our intellect. It is important to know how to feel, how to respond, and how to let life in so that it ca ...
Revolution 5: Man and the machine
As project managers, we more often than not find ourselves between man and machine. “To be, or not to be, that is the question:” William ...
Machine Learning Implementation for Project Management
Part of my research is focused on machine learning algorithms and how they can be used to improve the project methodology. Here is a practical e ...
Artificial intelligence - the next frontier of project management
Artificial intelligence is increasingly finding its way into project management tools with technological advancements made to manage everything from s ...
The impact of Artificial Intelligence on Project Management
What is the impact of Artificial Intelligence on Project Management? To begin with, let's ask what is the Artificial Intelligence (AI)? ...
The Impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on project management
Integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) with the Project Management process would provide more help and a positive impact to project managers in diff ...
AI and Project Management
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has always been a fascinating subject to humans. Picturing a machine capable of thinking independently and making decisio ...
Futuristic evolution of project management with AI
Artificial intelligence is a set of a computer system, a process that can perform some complex task or activities which may need human intelligence to ...
Application of AI in modern-day Project management
The role of project management has always been critical in any industry despite its complexity & diversity. Gone are the days when the use of spre ...
Artificial intelligence is at your mouth isn’t it near to Project management!
2 years ago, I decided to move towards a healthier style of living, and change to a gluten free bread with full grain. While searching on bread making ...
The Era of AI
Google’s CEO, Surdar Pichai, said: “AI is one of the most important things humanity is working on. It is more profound than electricity or ...
The Evolution and Development of Project Management in the Education Industry of Canada
Abstract This assignment includes the entire information regarding Project Management. The information of its evolution, The Canadian Education Syste ...
What to Do When Your Stakeholder Won’t Talk to You
Why would one of your project stakeholders refuse to talk to you? YOU are the project manager. The leader and facilitator of communication. How can yo ...
An Active Approach to Counteract Stakeholders’ Resistance
An Active Approach to Counteract Stakeholders’ Resistance To start, let’s make sure we are all on the same wavelength, as there a ...
Why do stakeholders sometimes resist in sharing information? (By Wanda Curlee)
A common expression when I first started in business was knowledge is power. I was also told not to share my power. This behavior is quite unfortunate ...
Why do Stakeholders sometimes resist in sharing information? (By Stephanie Jaeger)
Stakeholders will always have their own inner motivation for what they do and what they don’t do. Stakeholder Engagement in my part of the world ...
Stakeholders ... the very essence of any project
Leading change means actively engaging stakeholders - both those structurally impacted by the change and those who will ultimately use the product or ...
Why do stakeholders sometimes resist in sharing information? (By Asad Naveed)
Collecting information and defining scope are among the initial planning tasks in most of the projects, and they require feedback from the stakeholder ...
STAKEHOLDER, a big word!
PgMCerty, One of PfMP and PgMP leading educational providers says “Indulge your stakeholders, they are what makes the difference between failure ...
Practical planning tips
Introduction I have just created my own personal Advent Calendar, realising there are 25 days to the last working day before the Christ ...
Organisational culture: Composition and influences
In one of the meetings I held during a previous project, one of the project team members suggested applying Google's culture in our organisa ...
Leadership or Management?
Dr. Phil has convinced a whole generation that "you have to name it to claim it" - but when the "naming" causes confusion what do we do? English is a ...
Check-List for Daily Meeting for Remote Teams
Here is one check-list I use when working with distributed teams. This check-list is a guide for me and a metric in the same time. It helps me ensure ...
Scrum Master speed date: quick knowledge sharing
As part of a range of experiments to enable growth within the Scrum Master population, we organized a 15-minute time box of knowledge sharing called t ...
Stakeholders...
Stakeholders...... Who are they? What do they do about the project? What do they expect from the project and why is it important to recognize them? ...
Why do stakeholders sometimes resist in sharing information? (By Arman Kamran)
The short answer to this old question is: For the same reason people hide information in any other scenario, which is “The fear of loss o ...
Stakeholders... The essence of projects
As project managers, we spend majority of our time communicating with stakeholders, our clients are stakeholders, we report project status and seek su ...
Stakeholders... the essence of projects (by Waleed Elmhrate)
Stakeholder engagement is a critical success factor for any project. project manager is the key communicator for the project and stakeholder eng ...
Project's family, Project's stakeholders are the essence of projects
A project usually starts as a business need that was emerged from one of the sources that are touching the organizations strategies or operational per ...
Stakeholders... the essence of IT projects (By Dr. Asit Dash)
In the software industry, a project is a product or service or an activity that's done to create something very unique. It involves one person to many ...
Strategy Execution and Project Delivery: The critical role of sponsorship and stakeholder engagement
Background About two decades ago shock waves hit South Africa as one of its big financial institutions faced troubling times that bordered on a crisi ...
Tips for Managing Stakeholders
This month’s pmmagazine.net topic led me to recall a story relayed to me during some Conflict Negotiation training that I participated in s ...
Why Clutter Hurts Your Leadership and What You Can Do About It
By: Barbara Hemphill It's a simple fact: Clutter is postponed decisions®. Many managers have cluttered offices—unless the ...
The 3 fundamental mistakes that project managers make
In my role as a project leadership coach, trainer and facilitator I come across many project managers who are struggling to gain traction on their p ...
The 7 habits of highly effective project managers
In the international bestseller The 7 habits of highly effective people (Free Press, 1988), Steven R. Covey describes an approach to be ...
The ‘house’ of Scrum? … A house, indeed!
Albeit having no graphical skills, I understand the power of visualization. In 2011 I intuitively used a house as a representation and metaphor f ...
Building Your Own Methodology | Focus on Benefits
In my first article, (August 2019 edition), I mentioned that one of the major challenges that faces projects' managers nowadays is selecting the prope ...
Project problems - prevention and anticipation
Project managers don’t have a crystal ball, but they do have experience……. As with any body of work, project managers need to l ...
Managing yourself; a key for managing your project
“The world outside is a reflection of the world inside” has been my belief for the past few decades. What goes inside our mind and mainta ...
Can we cure the Daily with a Game? The Daily Stand-up Game
Some say YES, some say NO, I say give it a try and we’ll find out! The Daily (Stand-Up/Scrum) meeting is for us the most beautiful meeting in ...
PMP Training: Self-Paced Online Courses VS Virtual Instructor-Led Courses – Whats ideal for you?
I have had multiple PMP Aspirants reach out to me asking if they must opt for a Self-Paced Courses available online (LinkedIn Learning, Udemy, etc) ...
A cure for agile
In a previous article, I wrote about the issues I have with agile, particularly in fixed priced environments like agencies. Here are some thoughts on ...
Xeonian - The Project Manager Dictionary's fluency
There is a point of time when a person realizes that knowledge and experience never end, they are dramatic and they are expandable in all means and ...
Why do RPA projects fail?
Robotic Process Automation is the latest ‘Big Thing’ in IT, with many companies staking their futures on a highly automated operating mo ...
Hybrid ( Waterfall/ Agile), is it a solution or hidden problem?(Greg)
Waterfall - Agile Hybrid. Is it a solution or a hidden problem for your project? Although the Agile approach is increasingly dominating project ma ...
Hybrid ( Waterfall/ Agile), is it a solution or hidden problem?(Aditya)
Hybrid Approach – Pros and Cons In the last two decades, many information technology projects uses agile approach for the project management. The ...
Hybrid ( Waterfall/ Agile), is it a solution or hidden problem?(Jonathan)
Hybrid Model: Agile + Waterfall ? This is another entry in a series of posts that covers different aspects relating to Scrum, being a Scrum Master, ...
Traditional vs Digital PMO
A Portfolio, Programme and Project Management Office (PMO) has always served as a powerful catalyst for organisational change through programmes and p ...
Hybrid (Waterfall/Agile), A band-aid fix or an inevitable eco-system?
The beginning Coming from a long track of project management since late 1990s to this date (the end of the second decade of 21st century), I had the ...
Project Management Style Tailoring
It is commonly known that there's no right or wrong in picking what methodology you need to follow in managing your project. In the world of IT, a su ...
One P3 lifecycle to rule them all?
Given that the “one size fits all” model is no longer the best approach particularly in regards to portfolio, programme and project manage ...
Hybrid ( Waterfall/ Agile), is it a solution or hidden problem?(Massimo)
Agile, Hybrid or Waterfall to manage projects today? Agile, Hybrid or Waterfall to manage projects today? Do we have Pandora's box from which we ra ...
Is the Hybrid approach the solution to The Problem?
Is the Hybrid approach the solution to The Problem? Before giving an answer, let me launch a new question: really, what is The Problem? Why does the W ...
Project management approach, opportunity or threat?
When selecting a certain approach( waterfall, agile or hybrid), there is a fine line between whether this approach is a real solution and of added v ...
Building Your Own Methodology
Is there a direct answer to the question, “Is “Hybrid (Waterfall/ Agile)” a solution or a hidden problem?” The answer w ...
Common Misconceptions about Agile
Summary: Most software companies claim to have implemented agile methodologies. However, there are some common pitfalls and myths about agile. Many So ...
Old versus New Project Management
Introduction I love the theme of old versus new project management because it gives us a chance to reflect how our profession continues to evolve. I ...
Modern practices, old principles
Projects in one form or another have been undertaken for millennia: Ancient Egyptians constructed pyramids some 4500 years ago. Ships were built t ...
The social revolution in project management
Are you old enough to remember how people used to “socialise” in the 80’s? And by socialise I mean keep in touch. Due to the f ...
OLD Vs New Project Management
OLD Vs New Project Management We have come a long way when it comes to managing a project. I firmly believe that there were strong project management ...
The Story of Evolution - The Thousand-year Journey from Waterfall to Agile
When in March 2006 - out of pure personal curiosity - I completed a two-day training and certification workshop as a Certified Scrum Master, the ...
Project Management Evolution
Project management naming and methodology conventions, including project related job functions, were around for decades and supersede our generation. ...
The Evolution Entrepreneurial Project Management
The term ‘Entrepreneurial’ and ‘Project Management’ could seem totally at odds with each other. Being ‘entrepreneurial&r ...
What is the top challenge for Project Managers nowadays? and what is the best way to deal with? (Philip)
Why is there a mismatch between your invoice and the time expenditure reported in your latest status report…? This is one of the dreaded q ...
What is the top challenge for Project Managers nowadays? and what is the best way to deal with? (Marc-Yvan)
Dear peers and readers, Once again it’s such a pleasure and an honour to have the opportunity to share my thoughts with you on Project Manageme ...
What is the top challenge for Project Managers nowadays? and what is the best way to deal with? (Massimo)
Project management has undergone significant changes in recent years. These changes are due to changing conditions in the context in which the project ...
What is the top challenge for Project Managers nowadays? and what is the best way to deal with? (Maroun)
Project management has evolved throughout the years to cope with the fast moving markets. Back in the 80’s and 90’s, project management wa ...
Project Management Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Yesterday, many project managers were relying on their project management experience, shared knowledge and success stories from the limited network ar ...
What’s the impact of technology on project management?
When I embarked on my first job in the semiconductor industry, 30 years ago, I looked at the semiconductor technology as the largest enigma of the wor ...
What is the top challenge for Project Managers nowadays? and what is the best way to deal with? (Walid)
Organizations private & governmental are in rush to realize more objectives and deliver more strategic projects in everyone’s nowadays favor ...
AI driven project management – Data Strategy
Over the next few weeks we’ll be hosting a number functions which take a look at the state of the art of time and cost performance of major proj ...
5 Observations about Leadership + Management
I have worked extensively across the fields of leadership, management, project management and coaching with companies from startups to global multinat ...
Why you should express your project budget in terms of expected value
Your project budget should always be expressed in terms of expected project value. Simply put, project success occurs when outcomes add value to the ...
Is Your Organization Ready for Agile Change?
A few years ago I interviewed a colleague who tried a perspective map in her organization. The idea of change readiness assessment ...
Business hates project management
Picture the scene. You're at the bar and you overhear a conversation. The conversation is happening between Business and Project Management... It do ...
How to adopt Agile successfully?
When adopting agile across an organisation its important to recognise that agile has two sides. Most people would know these ...
Agile Lessons Learned
Empathy with those adopting change Fantastic day at @AdeccoGroup last week, celebrating their awards for excellence in transformation. Lots of presen ...
Agile Transformation: Culture, Strategy, and Tactics
All the large organizations in Canada and the US are either considering or in the midst of an "Agile Transformation" Is this a true transformation, an ...
Lessons (Un)Learned: How Project Managers can learn from their mistakes - A closer look into the Aircraft industry example
Mistakes are part of our daily lives. They are unavoidable, thanks to our human nature. But, we can learn a lot from them. Lets take a look on an indu ...
Adopting Agile approaches
This is another entry in a series of posts that covers different aspects relating to Scrum, being a Scrum Master, and everything Agile. These are the ...
Being agile without a capital ‘A’!
My construction project management students will generally tell me that Agile has no place in construction. Indeed, many feel that the PMI has a ...
Difference between Old and Modern Project Management
In this article we discussed difference between Old and Modern Project Management, Project Management principle Consist of Project Initiations, Planni ...
Future management of large-scale projects
GUEST OBSERVATIONProject managers are expected to effectively manage large and complex projects or programmes, but it is widely recognised that these ...
Old skool project management
Project success through the delivery of the agreed spending objectives was once ubiquitously judged on three criteria - time, budget and quality or sc ...
Change Management Has Become a Core Leadership Requirement: A Few Things You Need to Know
In a previous article I suggested that the current demands on executive leadership have become so deep, broad, and complex that it is basica ...
The Top 5 Software Project Risks
It is commonly known that any software development project contains elements of uncertainty and that the project success depends largerly on the amoun ...
Project Managers need to be leaders not administrators
Project management is about getting the job done, not pleasing the PMOLately I’m hearing more and more complaints from experienced project manag ...
Agile Frameworks - num:5 Scrum-ban
Scrum-banScrum-ban is an Agile development methodology that is a hybrid of Scrum and Kanban frameworks. Scrum-ban emerged using Kanban as a lens throu ...
So your Sprint Reviews have turned into Garbage? ... here is how to step out of the dumpster!
Sprint Reviews are held at the end of the Sprints for a few very specific and very important reasons, which if missed or perverted, would turn the ent ...
The Importance of Project Management Certifications (Saurabh)
Certification and It’s Importance Certification is a formal procedure by which an accredited or authorized person or agency assesses, verifies ...
The Importance of Project Management Certifications (Arman)
Certifications in Agile … Why is it worth the effort? Back in 2006, when – out of pure curiosity - I got my first ever certificate in Ag ...
My Journey and Lessons Learned: Cleared my PMP Certification in First Attempt !
I began my PMP journey in December 2018 as a MS in Project Management student at Northeastern University - Boston, with nearly six years of experience ...
Risk Mitigation in Scrum
White Paper © 2003-2019 Gunther Verheyen – Ullizee-Inc, All Rights Reserved (adapted from “Scrum - a Pocket Guide”) ...
Risk management. How can you turn a threat into success?
If you have ever managed any project, you probably know well the issues related to risk management. After all, who has not experienced problems and th ...
Risk Management (by Martin)
What is ‘Risk’? There are many definitions of risk, but my preferred ones are: “the effect of uncertainty on objectives&rd ...
Five Barriers to Risk Identification
Project managers understand that risk identification is a longstanding and important part of successful project management. But the reality is, i ...
Class of 2019: Risk Management For Rookies
“The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindsides you at 4pm some idle T ...
When a timely “SCRIM” saves the day
[SC-RI-M]: SCRUM RISK MANAGEMENTThe Waterfallists (a term I have used to describe the hardcore followers of the old methods of managing work) had ...
Risk Heat Maps: useful or not?
What is Heat Map? A risk matrix is a matrix that is used during risk assessment to define the level of risk by considering the category of probabilit ...
Risk Management In Business and project Environments
1.0 Learning to assess the risk management practices in a business 1.1 Risk Risk is an inherent part of running any business. At i ...
Risk Management
What is the risk? Risk is the possibility of losing planned values or sometimes a threat to/from unseen damage, injury to the intended outc ...
Artificial Intelligence and the germs of major project risk
In 1721, the average age of death in UK cities was about 32 years. Doctors still did not know that the underlying cause of many sicknesses was germs, ...
4 Golden Rules for Business Survival
According to the US Small business administration, four out of five businesses started in 2016 survived their first year of activity, half of them sur ...
Leadership and Risk Management
No organization can grow or innovate without taking risk. Every organization has to lookout for growth areas, next gen products to be able to stay rel ...
Risky Business
In life, you have to take risks. There’s simply no way around it. Without the ability to embrace what risks bring, growth and development are mu ...
How to reduce project failure in a complex environment
Demystifying the art of risk management.Many projects have evolved from good ideas in the boardroom, to a crescendo of enthusiasm amongst all parties. ...
Project management is risk management
None of us know what will happen tomorrow, let alone in six months’ time, it is a fallacy to believe that a project will follow a strict plan.Pr ...
Managing Risk on Agile Projects
We’ve Got Risk Management Nailed. Don’t We?Risk is something we deal with daily. How long before your flight or train do you need to leave ...
WHAT ARE WE MANAGING
There are so many managements in the corporate world that I can no longer quote them.They are all very important in their specific contexts. But after ...
Your Best Insurance for Multimillion Dollar Tech Projects (Independent Project Reviews)
Germany’s biggest discount grocer, Lidl was primed to make a strategic and profitable digital leap. Yet, after 7 years and €500 million in ...
Doing the right things and doing things right: Risk Management in Agile
Risk Management isn't about fixating scope and budget anymore. It's about early and continuous validation. Making sure precious time and funds aren't ...
Don't buy umbrellas in July for rain in November
The Management of Risk is a huge topic. Getting the balance right between being too risk averse or just "winging it" is a challenge. Risk can often be ...
My Scrum Master cliff-notes: Risks and how to mitigate them in Agile
This is another entry in a series of posts that covers different aspects relating to Scrum, being a Scrum Master, and everything Agile. These are the ...
Risk Assessment: How You Do It – Matters!
Everybody’s favorite upbeat subject: Risk Management. Best to avoid it all together huh? If I don’t think about risk, I guess there isn&rs ...
Make the Best of YOUR Project Risks
“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.” – John WoodenThe best time for you to imagi ...
Mitigate project risks and impacts
“project management is a risky job"In spite of all the planning and thinking done, all projects face unforeseen pitfalls. Experienced Project Ma ...
VALUE PROPOSITION OF BIG DATA FROM A RISK PERSPECTIVE
“It seems like a usual morning in the production plant. Machines are working for 24 hours per day without interruption. Machine workers, enginee ...
5 Ways Scrum Helps Manage Risks
An organization’s ability to rapidly and deliberately respond to changing demand, while controlling risk helps ascertain its Agility. If practic ...
Reduce Your Project Surprises
This article is dedicated to my guru Late Mrs. Rita Mulcahy, founder of RMC Project Management. Let’s consider a situation from a city in India, ...
Risk management in projects: the real reason
‘Risk management’ can quickly turn into template-filling, and into long debates about what counts as ‘a risk’; that is, into b ...
The Risk of not implementing Risk Management in a project.(Johnny)
Risk Management has an impact on the business, the cost of not implementing it will deteriorate the effectiveness of the work process where all its ...
Risk Management and the hidden opportunities.(Mohammed)
THE HIDDEN TREASURES OF RISK MANAGEMENT“Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and start being excited of what could go right” – T ...
The Risk of not implementing Risk Management in a project.(Luiz Paulo)
The risk game, of not knowing how to respond to a Risk.RISK is a classic and very popular board game that involves strategy, diplomacy, conflicts and ...
Risk Management and the hidden opportunities.(Kelly)
Risk Management in Scrum During a recent Sprint Retrospective, my team started discussing unexpected obstacles that they encountered during the sprin ...
Risk management the key to project success
Effective risk management begins with transparency of project information and status but somehow potential risk threats that may undermine the success ...
Know the Ropes - risk interactions and the case of the Titanic
When dealing with risk Management, we often think about risks separately, including each of them in a template, sheet or the traditional (and super us ...
Are You Overcomplicating Risk Management?
The consequences of poor risk management can be catastrophic. In just the last 15 years, Hurricane Katrina, the financial crisis of 2008, the Deepwate ...
Risk Management (by Bill Washinski)
Risk Management in Project Management “People hate to think about bad things happening, so they always underestimate their likelihood”. ...
Project Management challenges in IT
While project management or project manager term sounds very crisp and light from outside considering no technical work involved in it, but it’s ...
Project Management And The Art of Story
The principle vehicle of leadership is the story: the leader affects individual behavior, thought, and feelings through stories that he and she tells. ...
The Yin Yang of Projects: Using WBS in hybrid project management.
In this chapter of the hybrid project management series, I will talk about the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) Technique from the PMBoK and how it can ...
How to Build a Strong Project Management Culture
Anytime you want to do something new, strategic, or challenging – that’s a project.Projects help bring order to chaos, and balance demands ...
Project Management is a Mindset
It is more and more common to hear about “mindset”, especially after the Agile thunderstorm, that took over the Project Management world i ...
Coaching advice for Scrum Masters (Part 5): Trust is the Glue holding your practice together!
A Coaching Scrum Master uses the strongest pulling energy in the world to keep the team and the entire coaching work together: Trust, But where does i ...
5 Common Pitfalls in Project Management
Designing and delivering a project can be like building a house of cards. If you are not meticulous and thorough it can all come tumbling down. This i ...
Program management: what is it about?
Purpose of this paperBeing in IT since 2000, I have observed in every mission different processes, various meanings of "success" and various sensibili ...
Risk Management 5.0
Thousands of years ago, since the mankind started writing its history there were Risk Management registers. The Greek and Roman civilizations, who are ...
Storytelling or why you should think of your project like a Disney movie.
5 easy tips how you can use storytelling techniques to increase the impact of your projects.‘The way the films look will never entertain an audi ...
Agile Frameworks - number:4 Kanban
KanbanDeveloped by David J. Anderson (Lean Kanban, Inc. CEO in collaboration with the global community enthusiasts, coaches and trainers).The Kanban M ...
Agile VS. Waterfall Project Management for Mobile App Development
What I have learnt from more than 10 successful projects at RealmonkeyI am taking care of projects at Realmonkey from last 3 years and successfully de ...
Scrum Is Driving Us Crazy!
Quite a few teams in organizations implementing Scrum depict their frustration in statements like “Scrum is driving us crazy!”, “It& ...
Scrum Mastery - Beyond the Framework
The Scrum Master role is often underestimated at first. In Scrum Master training the role is often downplayed by attendees to that of Team Assistant o ...
Project Management - What is the Next Major Milestone?
Project Management is no dusty relic of the past. Rather, Project Management continues to grow, evolve and influence individuals.Looking at the modern ...
How to Unlock Your Inner Scrum Master.(Raluca)
When I think about the unlocking your inner SM my thoughts fly to the Hairy Shoe and the Conscious Competence model, as evolutiona ...
How to Unlock Your Inner Scrum Master.(Jonathan)
Find the COURAGE to strive for a better team, product, organization, world. What is stopping you from telling a better story? I was talking ...
The reverse triple constraint of projects in trouble
Assuming you suspect or know that one of your projects is in trouble the first step is always an extensive project review. After such a review you hop ...
In Project Management, Leadership vs Management is a Myth
I googled leadership in project management. I was surprised to see how misleading the majority of search results are.Leadership is an integral p ...
How to Improve Your Project Leadership with Coaching and Mentoring
Taking an active approach to the development of your leadership style is critical to collaborative project management. You need to cultivate a wi ...
Every Breath is Counted
Mind Body Emotions….connecting link is Breathing. As breathing is autonomous process we take it for granted and do not pay any attention to it. ...
Importance of Coaching in the Project Management world as a Professional
“A good coach can change a game. A great coach can change a life.” ― John WoodenI often hear a lot of individuals boasting, I have been ...
The DNA of a project manager
The DNA of a project managerThe project management profession (where industry best practices, behaviours and values are taught, applied and pragmatica ...
The RACI Model – not just another authority matrix
Most people would agree that for a programme or project to be successful there must be an explicit direction and management team structure consisting ...
Communication in Project Management
Communication works like glue, it keeps relationships and team members tied together. This skill plays an enormous role in successful project manageme ...
Lessons learned in Project Management
Despite appearances, an effective project management is not the simplest task. Especially when it comes to more complex ones - for example those relat ...
Project Portfolio Management: Theory vs. Practice
If you are responsible for managing portfolios of technology programs and projects, your success in maximizing business outcomes with finite resources ...
Learning from experience
When starting a project, and during its lifecycle, industry best practice project management methodologies and common sense advocate the need learn fr ...
Beyond Scrum Masters as facilitators
The following text is an excerpt from my latest book "Level Up Agile with Toyota Kata" available on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/LEVEL-AGILE-TOYOTA- ...
Equality - the roles in Scrum
The Scrum Team consists of three roles. The only three roles needed in Scrum. But all needed! And all equally important to be successful.This first se ...
Lesson Learned – The Forgotten treasure
Lessons learned or lessons learnt are experiences from a previous project that should be actively considered in future projects. Lesson ...
Centralised or de-centralised risk management in your enterprise?
Enterprise risk management (ERM) can mean a single centralised risk management process, with one central risk register. ERM can also work through de-c ...
Information or data? How to effectively benefit from Lessons learned?
Information or data? How to effectively benefit from Lessons learned? Lessons learned as defined by different international organizations: PMI PMBOK g ...
Decision risk management - made simple
A lot of risk management activities are essentially operational tasks based on prudent cost benefit considerations – like hedging currencies, bu ...
The Soft Side of Project Management
My professional journey has been quite an interesting and adventurous one. I have been involved in MEP (Mechanical , Electrical , Plumbing) contr ...
Scrum Master or Agile Coach?
I am not a dogmatic Scrum Master. That means I don't blindly follow and enact the Scrum Guide. I understand why the Scrum framework installed its bril ...
What We Can Learn from the Highly Coachable
I’m often asked what makes someone “coachable?” Are there some people who seem to do more & go further with coaching than others ...
Factors To Help Prioritize Your Scrum Product Backlog
Efficiency: something we all strive for, but often have a hard time accomplishing. However, when it comes to software development, efficiency is what ...
Why Only Knowing Scrum is Not Enough to be a Scrum Master
The first thing that happens to a newly minted Scrum Master, regardless of their certification (SSM, CSM, PSM1), on their first day of work is the sta ...
My Scrum Master cliff-notes: W.A.I.T
This is another entry in a series of posts that covers different aspects relating to Scrum, being a Scrum Master, and everything Agile. These are the ...
A Project Manager and a Scrum Master walk into a bar
A Project Manager and a Scrum Master walk into a bar. The Scrum Master is doing most of the talking.It’s after work on Friday and Pam, the ...
Making the argument for portfolio management
I have been talking a lot recently about enterprise change management, the need to manage all the changes that an organisation is implementing, and no ...
The Tale of the Two Scrum Masters | Agile Coach Tales
Since early 2008, I have been fortunate to have worked as an Agile Coach, Transformation Consultant, Leadership Mentor, Organizational Guide and Team ...
Good Scrum Master - How do you learn to become a GREAT Scrum Master?
The title of this article is inspired from a great book which I consider the most important book after the Scrum Guide: 'Scrum Mastery' by G ...
Why Scrum Boards Work
The first time I remember seeing a scrum board was while watching HBO’s Silicon Valley: Jared introduces Scrum to the Pied Piper team after ...
There is NO gold in Gold Plating!
Do you really think that you gain goods or you offer some for your clients by doing Gold Plating? I don't think so! Gold plating is nothing than addin ...
Scope Creep and Gold Plating in software development projects and how to deal with them?
More and more innovative products are being implemented on the market. Particular attention should be paid to those from such segments as Adtech, Fint ...
Everything and the kitchen sink
In project management, scope creep (or kitchen sink syndrome) refers to changes, continuous or uncontrolled growth in a project's scope, at any point ...
Uncontrolled Scope
Scope is best managed and controlled while submitting Statement of Wok and System Requirement Specification phase. Then further down the line to be tr ...
Project Management Skills Every Leader Should Have
Project Management Training Isn’t Just for Project Managers!As a corporate trainer and keynote speaker, I’m amazed by how often I’m ...
The 7 Deadly Sins of Project Management
For many of my straight laced, PMBOK toting project managers out there forgive me as this article was written for the layman and I’ve adapted so ...
Has Project Management Undersold Itself?
It has been a few months since my last article (compounded by the holidays) but I wanted to address a topic that I’ve been promoting for the las ...
The 6 hats of project management
Most people familiar with De Bono's Six Thinking Hats know it is a powerful technique for looking at decision making from different points of vie ...
Obeya Room in portfolio management
How do you find the concept of Obeya Room in modern portfolio management? Translated literally from Japanese, word Obeya means “a large room&rdq ...
True or False: The Scrum Master is a manager
The Scrum Master is a manager of Scrum process, but not of people.The topic and debate of "Is the Scrum Master a manager" surfaces regularly and a cau ...
Project Management - The Importance of Soft Skills
We are living in interesting times. Social and gender norms are changing, the rise of populism in politics and the emergence of Artificial Intelligenc ...
How to get a head start with Scrum
Scrum is easy to understand, yet difficult to master. The Scrum Guide says so and it's true. If you have worked with Scrum in your organization you pr ...
Current challenges in IT Project Management
Project Managers play a crucial role in success or failure of any project. It is essential for the project managers to be sharp enough through out the ...
Inspection without adaptation is pointless in Scrum. An act of futility.
People are naturally Agile. People will adapt as is needed. Our personal lives require us to demonstrate that ability more than our professional envir ...
Benefits of having a project management consultant in your team
Your team may have all the basic skills for managing projects, but it still makes sense to hire a specialised project management consultant. This exte ...
Scope of projects
Quite simply, use the following five steps to scope your project. If you follow them they will provide the information that you need to complete the P ...
How to stop Scope Creep, Part 1
The mortal enemy of all project managers, our kryptonite our ongoing antagonist; Scope Creep. While I can make several statements on how to reduce thi ...
How cloud computing is changing project management
Many organizations have started their cloud transition, but cloud computing is still new enough that project management practices have yet to catch up ...
5 Pitfalls that Prevent us from Delivering what the Customer Really Needs
It’s well known that a large number of projects fail in some way or another. They are either cancelled prematurely, delivered late, cost to ...
Gold Plating: Causes, Consequences and Prevention
Wikipedia provides a good explanation of Gold Plating as, "the phenomenon of working on a project or task past the point of diminishing returns. For e ...
A simple, effective way to prevent scope creep
Scope creep seems like a topic that is unaddressed until it is already too late. As project managers, we know that it is something to be avoided at al ...
The Art and the Tricks of Project Management
10+ years into being a Project Manager, I have been reflecting a lot on the function, the business, the general practice of conducting project managem ...
Carpe Diem - The Futility of Multitasking
Lets be frank, I’m awful at multitasking. By the time I’m halfway through one task, I get distracted and get involved in another. The end ...
Project Management Trends in 2019
Based on the 2018 experience of our customers and backed up by research, I am predicting six trends in 2019 for project portfolio management teams.#1 ...
Multitasking, a Hidden Threat.
Often in job interviews, multitasking is looked at as an advantage in candidates. This is legit because, in fast-moving companies, it is a race with t ...
The Key to Effective Project Management
Over the past 30 years, I’ve noticed many emergency managers have become more project and program managers than actual practitioners. It’s ...
Multitasking really a THREAT?
Multitasking can be specified in two ways:Earlier it was very easy for men and women as tasks were defined. Men used to play the role of PROVIDER and ...
Can I Multitask? Of Course! Should I? You be the Best Judge!
So may be just about now, you may be reading this article while eating lunch, surfing LinkedIn, and planning the budget for your next holiday. Let me ...
Meditation for better Project Management?
I know what they say about meditation - that it enhances your cognitive skills and maturity. I know it sounds real, alluring and downright boring. So ...
Project Risk Management
🤓 “The formal definition of risk management is: a systematic process for describing and quantifying the risks associated with hazardous subst ...
The PM is dead, long live the BA/PM
Project Managers have about as good a reputation as Recruitment Consultants. This is because, to most people, the value they bring is perceived as min ...
Time Management - Document Controller
"Time management is the process of planning and exercising Conscious control of time spent on specific activities, especially ...
Multitasking: Choosing the Smallest fuse of your dynamites!
Multitasking entails juggling different work activities and shifting attention from one task to another. Basically, the human brain gives permission t ...
7 Technology Project Management Trends and Predictions for 2019
As the old saying goes, “The only constant is change.” And nowhere does that sentiment seem to hold more truth than in the field of techno ...
Project Management, and the philosophy of under-performance.
I am going to commit a heresy. Project Management doesn’t work very well, particularly for complex projects.Here are some things that do wo ...
How Managers can improve their time management by NOT doing the following
Managers should NOT do these 6 things, if they want to improve their time management. 1. Scheduling back to ba ...
Professionalism: Time Management is Essential
Having a reputation as a professional can be crucial in attracting and keeping customers for small business owners. No one wants to do business with s ...
Project Management applied to Life
Since I started studying Project Management, I often catch myself taking mental notes that go far beyond what I intend to use on my daily job. There i ...
Risk Management: The game has changed
The risk landscape is changing fast. Every day we hear and read about future changes and new challenges in business. Changes in business bring new ris ...
Right-Sizing Risk Management: Four Steps to Avoid the Mistakes of Big Banks
For many financial services companies out there, look out – the risk management carnival may be coming to your town!Virtually every “non-b ...
Are Agile and Scrum the Same?
Several project management practices have been introduced over the years to ensure effective team management and optimal collaboration in the wor ...
Watch Out: Why Multitasking Is Bad For Your Career
I don’t know about you, but I get really annoyed when I speak to someone and they, instead of listening to me, type a text message or do somethi ...
The Real Harm in Multitasking
You've likely heard that multitasking is problematic, but new studies show that it kills your performance and may even damage your brain. Research con ...
3 Leadership and Management Strategies for the Small Business Owner
Small business owners (SBOs) have unique challenges when it comes to leadership & management. Here are some obstacles that SBOs face and some simp ...
Project Management: Art or Science?
December 20, 2018: Question Series #7It's the age old question in our field and it's extremely hard to answer it specifically. Is the Project Manageme ...
Project Management And Kanban
Ninety-seven percent of organizations believe project management is critical to business performance and organizational success.In today&rsq ...
Why Elephants Cause Project Failure (and a few other causes too)
I’ve been involved in Project Management for the last 15 years, in a number of industries, and I’ve seen the same issues occur again and a ...
Leadership VS Management
I have been hearing these two nebulous terms since I stepped in to my academic life and professional career. Some would define leader as a person who ...
Agile and Scrum are Good.
AGILE and SCRUM "revisited"In one of my original posts, I made it clear that I was NOT a fan of this so-called AGILE process. Since then, however; out ...
Leadership and Management Gap analysis
Having been fortunate to studying under Ronan Carberry from UCC last year; I was inspired by the dichotomy between Management and Leadership. This res ...
Aspects of Project Management - Bodies of Knowledge
"Body of Knowledge" (BoK) is an inclusive term describing the sum of knowledge within the project and programme management profession. As with other p ...
Leadership and Ego
Only a #leader can shape up good leaders if she/he is free of EGO. Some attributes of a leader, rarely found nowadays. Empathy, Optimism, Altruism, F ...
Leadership management. How to be a real leader?
People think they are good by themselves and all successful projects are done because of them. That is definitely wrong! I will never agree with such ...
Risk Management On Agile
Risk identification and assessment, along with the identification of risk measures, Should be incorporated into iteration planning by the product owne ...
Enterprise IT project management best practices
This last summer we wrapped up a very intense and fast paced project I was leading from the beginning of the year. It taught me a few things along wit ...
Driving the Future of Business Leadership and Management
To remain relevant as leaders and managers, we need to challenge the holy grails, debunk myths and invent new practices better suited for the 21st&nbs ...
Scrum Master: The continuous improvement of the mindset
Part 1: The GoalI recall so well the emotions I felt during my first days as Scrum Master. It was the beginning of 2012, I attended full of enthu ...
Innovation in project management: Inspiration from Dubai
I recently spoke at Dubai International Project Management Forum (DIPMF) and was struck by the innovative theme of the conference. Perhaps it shouldn& ...
Six Leadership Behaviors Found at a Customer-Centric Company
Because new technologies have armed today’s customers with up-to-the-minute information about the companies they buy from, the products they wan ...
The 37 Most Inspiring Leadership Quotes I Know
No one can deny the power of a good quote. They motivate and inspire us to be our best.Here are 37 of my absolute favorites:1. "I alone cannot change ...
Leadership Skills – An out of the box thinking that can influence.
"He was not perfect. He had his complexities. He was not the only one who suffered in a pre-civil rights America, and there were plenty of other chari ...
Sustainable Project Management
Society and Environment challengesIn the developed world, we regularly hear on the news about the rising cost of petrol and electricity. We also hear ...
Getting started with Change Management: Five Principles
Status quo is a dangerous place to be. In our fast moving world, organisations are pushed in the back to adapt and transform. But dealing with ch ...
Why training is key in the Change Management Process
It’s a natural human emotion to be weary of change. Change can be a daunting thing for any professional to deal with. At the more extreme end of ...
Use these 7 Project Management Best Practices to Write Your Book
When you manage a project, you are expected to tailor your approach and select the processes and best practices to ensure you reach your objectives. W ...
Change Management is boring
During my 25 years as a change management professional I have had thousands of conversations with people about Change Management. And now I have final ...
Why Change Enablement rather than Change Management?
Change Management is more in fashion now than it has been for a while. Interestingly the transition to an app based environment where revenue is linke ...
4 Key Analysis Steps for Organizational Change Management (OCM)
What are the key elements of OCM?OCM has big impacts – regardless of the organization’s size. In this article, we look at 4 Critical ...
Smashing The Rules of Project Management
Quite a while ago someone emailed me a document titled ’50 Rules of Project Management’. The ‘rules’ are all tongue-in-cheek a ...
How Change Management is Impacting Project Management
As project managers we are often warned to guard our projects against scope creep, however, you have likely already noticed the profession of project ...
Project Management : Interesting Terminologies
PMs are the most creative pros in the world; they have to figure out everything that could go wrong, before it does.There are many project management ...
Agile Project Management: Self-Assessment (and Interview) Questions
How would this list benefit you?If you are new to Agile, keep these questions in mind as you learn. These questions can help put some structure around ...
Where Are the AI Tools for Project Management?
A quick survey of project management software applications shows a distinct lack of AI tools for project managers. In fact, the first adoption of ...
The Increasing Influence of Women in Project Management
During a group exercise in this week's project management class at a biotech firm, my main contact waved me over to ask a question. She noticed that w ...
What Do Project Management and Mindset Coaching Have in Common?
Anyone who has gotten to know me over the last five years knows that I love project management. For a long time, my single career goal was to be a pro ...
Aspects of Project Management - Governance
Governance arrangements are key to the performance and conduct of any organisation. Things are (or should be) no different in a ‘project organis ...
greenwashing in Project Management
Greenwashing, what could that be? In this context greenwashing has nothing to do with any ecological objectives or global warming. Washing data green ...
How and Why to do project management in agile-based Companies?
As you know, now days everyone goes for Agile (I’m an advocate too), while many people say “We are agile”, in the meantime, when the ...
5 project management behaviours for success
Many associate project management with scheduling and task management. As much as much of this is relevant, a large part about project management is a ...
Navigating the Complexity of Remote Project Management
The ease of technology and workforce mobility enable a project to be done in remote location. Nowadays, it is very common to see a project where the c ...
The Discipline Formerly Known as Change Management
In the late 90’s and early 2000’s I worked for a dot-com company that eventually went under. At the time we were selling CRM systems for $ ...
How to Create a Realistic Project Schedule
Creating a realistic project schedule is difficult. It is a complex document with dozens of variables. There is always some amount of uncertainty.Stak ...
Change Management, The Cultural Aspect
What is Change Management?Change management is the application of methods, tools and techniques in a project realm to move the employees from their we ...
Change management concept and guidance to accept it.
"The only thing that is Constant is Change" -- HeraclitusChange Management involves the process that ensures a business responds to the environme ...
5 Reasons to Implement A Change Management Policy
Most business owners that I personally know and have talked to are afraid to take chances on a change management policy. Even though the owners are ve ...
The Most Important Element for Project Success
Working on a learning topic with a master person in an adult age is applied especially in sports as well as in martial arts. In the epic movie &ldqu ...
What if Project Managers get replaced by Bots and AI?
The year 2018 is all about Artificial Intelligence, the most popular terms. Most of the companies are competing to see how they can make use of automa ...
How to Make Project Management Your Company’s Secret Weapon
When I was growing up, the old folks used to say there are only two things in life that are guaranteed: death and taxes.But wait. There’s a ...
What I have Learned From Google About Project Management
Do companies need managers? Do startups need managers? Google took this question out of the plate long ago. In 2002 Google got rid of all managers. T ...
Three Project Management Tools You Should Be Using Every Day
Project management gets a bad rap.Project management is usually one of those topics, that when I begin to discuss it, people’s eyes begin to rol ...
Project Management Success from Pronouns. A typo? Nope.
In a matter of minutes, a student of mine opened my mind to a better way of thinking about projects, and more importantly how to make them perform bet ...
Project Management Process
The Project Management Process in a nutshell. To simplify project execution, you can break each project into phases. Each phase can further be ...
Automation and Project Management
A casual conversation with an old colleague sparked chain of thoughts. They were of the opinion that IT project/Program management is repetitive jo ...
Conflict Management
Conflict management is the practice to identifying and handling conflict in a sensible, fair and efficient manner. You may define conflict management ...
Evaluation of the discipline, profession, and growth of project management in an organisation
ReflectionThere's a clear difference between experienced and inexperienced project managers. Nowadays, project managers need more skills than before; ...
Some Suggestions on How to Improve Project Management on a Fully Remote or Any Team.
Doist, a fully remote asynchronous company, has been experimenting with what project management should look like for them. I applaud much of what they ...
Why You Should Value Project Management
Part of the Dextra "Quick Hits" SeriesSome view project management as no more valuable than other skills. Others have felt the pain of a project that ...
Project Management and Career Success
Project management has been an integral component in my career development till now and has given me an opportunity to both develop and exhibit my ski ...
Organizational Conflicts, and ways to avoid its adverse effects
Conflict is defined as an interactive process manifested in incompatibility, disagreement, or dissonance within or between social entities (i.e. indiv ...
You can not be the Project Manager for this project because you do not understand the technology!
My opinion on two very interesting questions that came up while attending the local PMI chapter meeting.The basis of this editorial is to surmise my o ...
Representative Inclusiveness in conjunction with Scrum Product Development
Recently when I was learning one of the fundamental topics of leadership or a modern leadership which is "Representative Inclusiveness", the first tho ...
Having an Agile mindset - 5 simple and successful ways
You don’t need to be fully trained on all the Agile principles, frameworks, methodologies and tools before even attempting to do Agile or be in ...
How to survive project management for the non-project manager.
Many small companies and even departments in larger enterprises simply don’t have the need for a dedicated project manager and, more often than ...
Why project management matters for PR and comms
I’m a big fan of the benefits of project management. I was in a particularly daft meeting recently where all the issues could have been avoided ...
Project Management is easy...Until you add the People factor!
On the face of it Project Management is easy! Affecting change through the structured implementation of a plan agreed by an organisation to deliver so ...
Integrating Project Management into a Six Sigma System
Many financial institutions share a drive to lower costs, reduce cycle time and offer a diverse product mix as they pursue higher profits and an incre ...
Why Is Project Management Is Considered As An Important Management Discipline
Imagine yourself going north for about 100 kilometres of distance in a dark night!You know the direction and the distance to be tr ...
Project Management in 3 Minutes
When the Pyramid of Giza was being built around 2500 BC, Project Management was not much of a fad. Maybe whip yielding Scrum Masters&nb ...
How to Survive Project Management Crisis
Your customer escalated a problem to the top management for no clear reason. They are going to cancel the project and withdraw a contract. Your boss i ...
Most Useful Project Management Tools and Techniques Made Simple
Choosing the right approach to managing a project is crucial for successful project delivery. The way you manage work is defined by techniques that yo ...
Project Management Office: Is it a center of the Universe
I still remember when one of my former managers asked me if I see project management office as a central point of the company. Already at that time my ...
The Impact of Risk Management on IT Projects
The Impact of Risk Management on IT ProjectsMany organizations, despite of dimensions, enlist in not less than one and often numerous Information Tech ...
How Agile Made Me a Better Marketer
While agile has been historically used in software development, its success in helping organizations “build the right stuff, fast” has led ...
The problem with agile.
Lots of businesses send their team leaders on an agile course, only to have them return and fail to implement anything. It’s no-ones fault. The ...