Project Management Articles
Project Management Best Practices: Key Processes and Common Sense
Organizations continue to look for the key to unlocking the mystery of project management best practices, but the steps that go into successful project management are not mysterious at all - they are standard procedures that, if executed, will improve a project's chances of success.
Secrets of Successful Project Management
Managing projects is difficult under the best circumstances. Unfortunately, many new project managers receive virtually no job training. Here are 20 tips for success.
Looking Back, Looking Ahead
Examining your last project can improve your next one.
Cards-on-the-Wall Sessions
A low-tech method to help your projects succeed.
Other People's Problems
A proactive approach to solving workplace woes will make you a more effective project manager.
Grace Under Pressure
Fear causes uncertainty and stifles communication, breeding distrust and inefficiency—a disastrous combination. Savvy survival skills replace fear with team spirit and productivity.
Tips for Delegating for Project Managers
Sometimes, multitasking runs amok. If you're suffocating under piles of paperwork or controlling your staff's every action, you need help: Learn to delegate duties and regain your focus as a project manager.
No More Meeting Mutinies
Weekly one-on-ones offer you an opportunity to assess progress and to glean crucial information to keep your projects—and personnel—on course. So how do you get staff to attend?
Decisions, Decisions
Most project managers know that the best decisions come from logical, deductive thinking. Taking over a family business, however, led the author to muse about bounded rationality and the limits of logic.
Wicked Problems
When you're scrambling to complete a never-ending task and no one can decide what "done" means, it helps to know that there's a name for this situation—and it's not a four-letter word.
Plan Perfect
Don’t depend on a work breakdown structure to keep your project on target: Write it out to help managers, team members and stakeholders find consensus.
Software Project Management Disaster Prevention
Don't ignore the signs of impending doom for your project. Avert the worst by conducting a technical and management audit, followed by recovery planning for the future.
Use Conflict Creatively
Brush that sand out of your face, take a lesson from Charles Atlas's dynamic tension, and learn to use conflict creatively to beef up your management approach.
Project Management Tools
There's no shortage of tools designed to aid with estimation, planning, tracking and delivery. From portfolio management to resource assignment, here's a truckload of products that aim to enhance morale by reducing chaos.
Agile Management
Agile management has much in common with its traditional counterpart. Navigating boundaries, dealing with risk, and supporting the team will secure success.
Leadership, Teamwork and Skill
The annals of IT bulge with page after page of project failures. But when we look at the flip side of the story, we find a common theme behind success: leadership, teamwork and skill.