Do you know that inaccurate requirements gathering appears to be one of the common causes for project failure?  This fact makes us take a fresh look at this process. Collecting and documenting project...

Imagine the situation: you have three projects that are looking suspiciously perfectly green on paper, but still, somehow, form an impossible portfolio. All three projects are on schedule. Still, all ...

Primavera P6 vs MS Project is often reduced to a question of project size. That misses the decisions that actually determine a good fit: who owns the schedule, how many people must work in it, what th...

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...

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...

Jira is a leading tool for project management and issue tracking, but when it comes to advanced tasks required of a multi-project management tool, Jira has a number of limitations. For larger companie...

Shipbuilding projects are extremely complex. But managing a portfolio of initiatives in this sector introduces a new level of difficulty – all of these complex projects share limited resources, infras...

Microsoft’s decision to retire Project Online has left many organizations searching for Microsoft Project alternatives. But what if we look at this not only as a forced migration but as an opportunity...

What projects should you accept and which ones can you decline? Many companies take every project that comes their way, and that might be a good solution in some situations. But at some point, you’ll ...

Successful project completion is the main goal of project management efforts, but what does project success really mean? Delivering a project on time and within budget, you may think. Yes, but that’s ...

Managing multiple projects and programs simultaneously becomes more and more challenging for modern companies. Especially for large enterprises running hundreds of projects, it is extremely hard to co...

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...