When your project is in progress, you as a project manager or business leader will definitely want to know how things are going and have an opportunity to check it at any moment. But in a multi-projec...

Schedule variance is a specific project management metric that quantifies project progress by subtracting planned value (PV) from earned value (EV) at a reporting cutoff date. If you get a negative re...

Project cost management (PCM) is the discipline of planning how costs are governed, estimating required resources and money, approving and time-phasing a budget, measuring actual cost and progress, fo...

When an organization doesn’t have a clear way to prioritize projects in a large portfolio, either prioritization happens arbitrarily or every project seems equally important. This often leads to a cha...

In a great number of modern companies, especially rapidly growing or large enterprises, uncoordinated project execution can hamper strategic progress. Addressing this challenge becomes possible with e...

One of the major concerns of project managers is delivering projects on time. But changes and contingencies can significantly affect the initial project timeline.  How can you be sure that the project...

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 nec...

If you’re engaged in project management or your occupation is somehow related to it, you should have an eye for project management terms. On the other hand, it’s quite difficult to retain all the defi...

Managing a delivery project pipeline is rarely a tracking problem; it is a decision-latency problem. Treat it as a static status report and new initiatives will almost immediately overload active comm...

In multi-project environments that operate with a shared pool of scarce resources, projects can remain within their monetary budget and still damage portfolio performance. Monetary headroom does not s...

Implementing new technology is an important part of business growth and one that allows organizations to greatly improve efficiency, increase revenue, and reach long-term goals faster. But measuring t...

In larger companies that have a large pool of distributed resources and execute multiple projects simultaneously, scheduling resources without running into performance issues can be a struggle. A stru...