Successful project execution depends on managing people and resources effectively, but the question remains—are people resources? Though it may sound odd, employees are often referred to as resources ...

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 ...

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...

If you’re engaged in project management or your occupation is somehow related to it, you should have an eye for project management terms. On the other hand, it’s quite difficult to retain all the defi...

Effective and actionable feedback is vital for successful projects. However, a recent research by Leadership IQ reveals that fewer than half of employees know if they’re performing well. Trying to imp...

Boosting team productivity should be among the top priorities for industrial manufacturers if they want to meet current technological and organizational challenges. Knowing good ways to increase produ...

As companies expand, they have more and more projects in progress at the same time. This can be tremendous for a company’s bottom line, but can increase the complexity of their  management. Resource c...

The automotive world is experiencing the most substantial change since Henry Ford industrialized manufacturing a century ago. It’s important that the current transformation is triggered not only by ex...

Resource management tools help organizations plan people and project capacity, assign work, and compare demand with availability. Their useful differences become clearer when two projects need the sam...

Do you know what Abraham Lincoln used to say about planning? “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” Planning is and will always be vital to reach d...

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...

Critical chain project management (CCPM) assumes a static bottleneck in an organization, called the drum. In reality, these organizations are hard to find. In multi-project environments, the bottlenec...