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 ...

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...

What if you allocate resources to project tasks and realize that some employees are required for several assignments at the same time? Or a team member’s workload turns out to exceed his or her actual...

Allocating the right resources to the right tasks at the right time is a really demanding task. But if you have hundreds or even thousands of projects in the pipeline, the complexity of allocating res...

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 ...

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...

It’s rather difficult to define what makes a project manager worthy of a dream position. Every company determines the role and the title differently, but no doubt tech giants serve as a benchmark. If ...

When a company becomes bigger and gets more and more projects to complete, manual management or tools tailored for single-project management turn out to be inefficient. Both situations can result in y...

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...

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...

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...