Public speaking comes in different forms. It doesn’t always mean delivering an inspirational speech in front of a big audience. As a manager, you need to speak confidently when holding presentations, ...

A project can sit comfortably under budget while its delivery forecast quietly erodes its commercial value. When a shared specialist becomes the queue every project waits on, completion dates slip. If...

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...

Planview Portfolios is a strong starting point when your hardest problem is connecting strategy, investments, capacity and delivery across an enterprise. Planisware Enterprise is a strong starting poi...

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...

Portfolio and project management tools have similar features, but ultimately, some might be more suitable than the others for specific use cases. For many Smartsheet users, their current tool of choic...

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...

Capacity planning is a high-level resource management technique that can improve resource utilization and planning capabilities across multiple projects and help it achieve more with less resources. S...

Managing multiple projects is a uniquely challenging task because on top of regular project management workflows, you need to manage interproject dependencies and ensure an optimal resource load. A pr...

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 ...