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8 Tips on Reducing Project Costs
Reduction of project costs and at least avoiding significant cost overruns is one of the high-priority tasks for a project manager, as it helps to avoid unnecessary expenses and significantly impacts project profitability. However,...
Project Baseline in Project Management: A Starting Point to Monitor Performance
When managing a project, it’s hardly possible to stick to the original plan without making any changes to it throughout the entire project lifecycle. In most cases, changes are inevitable and even necessary, as...
The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Human Jobs in the Near Future
We are witnessing the time when technology is developing faster than some people are able to adapt to these new conditions. We may haven’t even noticed how much automation surrounds us every day -...
All About Scope Creep: Causes, Consequences, and Tips on Preventing It
Scope creep is a common challenge that project managers have to deal with. In an effort to make the project’s final outcome perfect and satisfy customers, project managers/team members/stakeholders may be unable to leave...
Dealing With Project Dependencies In a Multi-Project Environment
Projects don’t exist in isolation: even a single project involves dependencies between its tasks and depends on a number of other internal and external factors. As for a multi-project environment, it’s a complicated system...
Top 10 Management Skills That Help You Succeed as a Project Manager
A project manager’s expertise is one of the essential prerequisites that determine success of a project delivery. Their responsibilities involve such activities as conducting meetings (e.g. project planning sessions), managing diverse teams, building and...
Project Risk Management: Importance, Challenging Issues, Recommendations
Risk is often perceived as a potential hazard or something that should be better avoided. However, we all know that the road to success is fraught with risk, as it’s often associated with new...
Project Management In Education: Specific Challenges and Ways of Addressing Them
Live and learn---this proverb has never been so relevant as in the 21st century. Your education isn’t over when you graduate from a university: being a highly skilled specialist and a healthy personality requires...
The Human Side of Project Management: How to Deal with Behavioral Aspects Affecting Your Success
Any project is vulnerable to risks and uncertainties that sometimes can’t be predicted and avoided. But there are things that negatively affect the project success but can be neither controlled nor prevented. We’re talking...