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...

If we had to choose one word that best describes R&D projects, it would be “uncertainty”—they have so many changing elements, and their outcomes are often hard to predict.  Nevertheless, this doesn't ...

Resource availability is a critical component of effective resource allocation: you need this data to assign the right people to the right task for timely and successful project delivery.   But despit...

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...

Efficient resource planning is at the heart of efficient delivery of projects and business performance in general. But in a multi-project environment, it can be incredibly challenging to plan, allocat...

The success of any project largely depends on the efficiency of its initial planning and tracking its progress. In project management, there’s a variety of tools that make it possible to plan project ...

We all know how difficult it can be to approach a large new endeavor. For example, standing in the middle of a messy house may seem overwhelming, but if you tidy the rooms one by one, the cleaning up ...

Project management involves creating lots of documentation. If you look into project management standards, you will find at least a dozen of various plans, multiple types of reports, and numerous othe...

Initial project phases play an important role for the success of further project management work. One of the essential activities as part of these phases is developing a work breakdown structure that ...

You can plan your projects perfectly, allocate resources properly, but still miss deadlines and face low performance. This is because in a multi-project environment, success is largely affected by bot...

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...

When your project is in progress, you as a project manager or business leader will definitely want to know how things are going and have an opportunity to check it at any moment. But in a multi-projec...