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...

As companies expand, they have more and more projects in progress at the same time. This can be tremendous for a company’s bottom line, but can increase the complexity of their  management. Resource c...

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...

The brains behind Epicflow, Albert Ponsteen and Jan Willem Tromp, are convinced that dynamic work environments require a new project planning paradigm. With extensive experience in multi-project manag...

Too many organizations focus on accepting every project that comes their way. It might be a good strategy for companies that are only starting out, but with time, this approach has a risk of putting t...

Resources are everything that a company needs to complete a task or project and achieve its goals. It can be anything from people to funds, and when you have to deal with shared resources across multi...

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 ...

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...

Focusing on simply delivering projects can lead a company to a place where productivity is commendable, but the actual achievement of business benefits is low. Strategic portfolio management (SPM) see...

A company’s strategic goals are big-picture ideas. Those ideas need to be pursued through specific measurable actions to be realized. This is what operational planning does: finds a way to achieve one...

A complex environment in which most medium to large companies operate can quickly become chaotic without a structured formalized approach to business strategy and processes. Operations management brin...

In large organizations with multiple diversified resources and multiple projects running in parallel, managing resources can be problematic. With no framework, resources can become overloaded and stop...