One of project management’s greatest gifts is that it allows the project-driven organization to create a framework for decision making within a project and, hopefully, within an organization. As more and more organizations are becoming project-driven, the need to ensure…
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We are excited to announce that ProjectManager.com has been nominated for two NZ Innovators Awards 2015 from the New Zealand Innovation Council. The NZ Innovation Council (NZIC) supports innovation and provides a community for entrepreneurs and businesses to collaborate and…
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There are so many leadership and management books out there, offering up advice on productivity, profitability, hard skills, soft skills and all things lean and in-between. There are the classic masters, like Drucker and Covey, and newer voices like Godin and Sandberg. There are emerging…
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We are always looking for new ways to extend our project tools with other productivity apps, and we recently launched our new API to support teams who want to build custom integrations with our tools. Now that we have partnered…
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Projects are the way businesses deliver strategy. Without projects that help move the company forward, strategic plans are an interesting but irrelevant document. According to a PMI-sponsored Economist Intelligence Unit study of executive leaders, an average of just 56% of strategic…
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Would you personally risk a million dollars on the chance that something might succeed without at first researching its likelihood of success? Of course not. Yet in a business context, it’s all too common to launch new projects and initiatives…
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To write about how to introduce sustainability measures into your project, I’ll be focusing on Boston. That, of course, means that there simply has to be a sports connection. Larry Bird of the Celtics (number 33) and Ted Williams of…
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If you know how long your tasks will take, you can build a great project schedule. That lets you manage the expectations of your team because you can tell everyone when the work will be done (and that’s what they…
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At the start of any project, you’ll be pulling together a new team of people. That may include people that you haven’t worked with before, people who have specific expertise or people who you need to consult to make sure…
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Starting your projects in the right way makes it so much easier to manage your work and your team. While it’s tempting to dive straight in and get on with your tasks, it pays to take a bit of time…
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It’s important for a project to get off to a good start, especially when it can easily get bogged down on the first line item of a plan and languish. The following article discusses some ways you can ensure your…
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Everyone has heard of the KISS method — Keep It Simple, Stupid. Nowhere is that more important than in project management. Yet you’ve undoubtedly come across people in your project management career who enjoy taking the simplest of concepts or project…
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Ah, the lowly testing phase. In all-too-common scenarios, the testing phase is cut short due to scope creep, which extends the deliverables too close to the project deadline. Or sometimes, testing is simply cut out to push an earlier release…
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