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 by one, the cleaning up ...

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 othe...

Being a successful project manager is not just about creating good plans and schedules and telling the team members what they should work on. It also requires proper coordination of people and process...

Do you know your organization's project management maturity level? If not, it’s high time to change the situation: project management maturity has a direct impact on a company’s competitiveness and bu...

Whatever great idea is behind a project, it won’t be implemented without stakeholders’ buy-in and investment. To get their support and approval, they need to understand what value an initiative will b...

Project failures don’t happen out of the blue — they’re always the result of improper management actions. In a complex multi-project environment with limited resources, the price for improper manageme...

Every project management activity doesn’t exist in isolation – they are all related to and dependent on each other, may have competing requirements and/or shared resources. And if there are multiple p...

“If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it” Peter Drucker, management author No matter what change initiatives are, they must bring tangible results. It may seem the outcomes of effective change m...

Sometimes, it’s rather difficult to predict whether a company will be capable of delivering a certain product or service, whether it’s reasonable to invest in this project, and how it will affect the ...

“Without data, you’re just another person with an opinion”, W. Edwards Deming Data and technologies have become the drivers of innovations and competitiveness in today’s constantly changing business e...

Estimation of project costs is one of the core practices of the project initiation stage, which becomes the basis for the approved project budget. However, the main challenge of this process is that i...

For growing companies, it’s crucially important to keep track of all their products and make sure they are in demand and meet customers’ needs. A good way to increase profitability is to work on produ...