There are a variety of approaches and methodologies aimed to increase the effectiveness of managing projects and deliver better outcomes. Each of them comes with specific advantages and disadvantages,...

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 m...

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 ...

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...

As companies develop and grow, and the number of projects they deliver increases, business leaders are seeking ways to ensure more efficient coordination of all their initiatives. For this purpose, a ...

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...

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 ...

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 opportun...

Perhaps you know the pessimistic but cautious statement that can refer to any kind of activity: “If anything can go wrong, it will”. It’s known as Murphy’s law. It’s applicable to any sphere of human ...

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...

You probably already have a new project management system in mind or are at least considering choosing one to improve team productivity and take your project planning achievements to the next level. H...

Projects fail, that’s nothing new. But each project’s failure can typically be tied to a common reason, most of which can be prevented. Reducing the number of failed projects in your portfolio comes d...