Schedule conflicts belong to the typical challenges of managing multiple projects with a shared resource pool. For example, the activities team members participate in can overlap or it can turn out th...

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...

Matrix organizational structure has become common for a great number of business organizations and that’s for a good reason: it facilitates flexibility, contributes to employee engagement and retentio...

The aerospace and defence industry is a space where giant  corporations manage multi-billion portfolios and deal with challenges that many other industries have the privilege not to encounter. With mu...

Most portfolio dashboards answer only “what is happening,” cluttering screens with historical actuals and lagging KPIs. But static visibility alone does not show leaders where intervention can still c...

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...

The engineering industry faces multiple challenges, from supply chain disruptions to sudden changes in project scope coming from customers. This changing environment needs a strong approach to project...

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...

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...

Microsoft Project Online is retiring on September 30, 2026. After that date, organizations will no longer be able to access Project Online or the project data stored inside the service. For PMOs, CIOs...

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...

Have you been using Jira throughout your company, but now realize that your business needs have changed, and its functions are not enough?  Let’s say, your company has expanded, and now you have to ma...