Project Management May 30, 2023 Critical Success Factors in Multi-Project Management What do you need to achieve successful delivery of every project in a multi-project environment? In the flow of tasks, milestones, dependencies, resources, etc., it’s very easy to lose focus of what matters most...
Project Management May 19, 2023 Schedule Conflicts: Their Causes and Ways to Prevent Them Schedule conflicts belong to the typical challenges of managing multiple projects with a shared resource pool. For example, the activities team members participate in can overlap or it can turn out that you’ve assigned...
Project Management May 4, 2023 How to Tame Uncertainty of Research and Development: Best Practices for Managing R&D Projects If we had to choose one word that best describes R&D projects, it would be “uncertainty”—they have so many changing elements, and their outcomes are often hard to predict. Nevertheless, this doesn't mean that...
Project Management February 9, 2023 A Quick Guide to Essential Project Management Metrics When managing a project, it’s vitally important to regularly monitor its state: whether or not it has deviated from the approved schedule and budget; how much work has been completed and how much is...
Project Management January 31, 2023 Top 11 Must-Read Project Management Books Becoming a competent and sought-after project manager is impossible without constant professional development. At the same time, the amount of information in any domain is unprecedentedly huge – courses, books, education websites, blogs, etc....
Project Management January 5, 2023 How to Create a Project Timeline in 6 Steps: A Quick Guide The success of any project largely depends on the efficiency of its initial planning and tracking its progress. In project management, there’s a variety of tools that make it possible to plan project work...
Project Management December 8, 2022 Eating an Elephant One Bite At a Time: What Are Deliverables in Project Management? We all know how difficult it can be to approach a large new endeavor. For example, standing in the middle of a messy house may seem overwhelming, but if you tidy the rooms one...
Project Management December 1, 2022 8 Essential Project Management Documents You Need to Know About Project management involves creating lots of documentation. If you look into project management standards, you will find at least a dozen of various plans, multiple types of reports, and numerous other documents. The good...
Project Management November 24, 2022 Creating a Work Breakdown Structure: What You Need to Know Initial project phases play an important role for the success of further project management work. One of the essential activities as part of these phases is developing a work breakdown structure that becomes the...