Project Management February 9, 2023 A Quick Guide to Essential Project Management Metrics 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 ...
Project Management January 31, 2023 Top 11 Must-Read Project Management Books Becoming a competent and sought-after project manager is impossible without constant professional development. At the same time, the amount of information in any domain is unprecedentedly huge – cours...
Project Management November 8, 2022 Becoming a Successful Project Manager: 5 Tips to Achieve Professional Goals and Objectives 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...
Project Management May 24, 2022 Resource Leveling in Project Management: Key Techniques and Tools 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...
Resource Management May 12, 2022 4 Tips on Efficient Resource Allocation in a Multi-Project Environment 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...
Project Management August 31, 2021 8 Tips on Reducing Project Costs 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 ...
Project Management August 10, 2021 Project Baseline Plan: How to Separate the Contractual Baseline from the Latest Forecast 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...
Project Management June 9, 2020 How to Overcome Parkinson’s Law and Deliver Projects in Half the Time Everyone engaged in project management is aware that this field is prone to different kinds of uncertainties. They all are diverse and unpredictable, though there are some that appear in every project...
Project Management December 23, 2019 What Do Companies like Apple, Amazon and Google Look for in Project Managers? 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 ...
Project Management October 23, 2019 Best Multi Project Management Software Solutions to Test in 2026 Multiple project management tools help organizations run concurrent projects from one system, but they do different jobs. Some give leaders a consolidated view of status. Some coordinate hand-offs, de...
Project Management December 26, 2017 Project Failure Examples: 4 Famous Cases & Lessons 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...
Project Management September 22, 2026 Schedule Variance: Why a Green Schedule Can Still Hide Financial Risk 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...