PM Best Practices & News

Day after day, we are expected to do more than before as expectations on work output, quality, and the rapidity of expected task completion are increasing as technology advances. Juggling multiple projects is the norm for project managers today. Ask around, and you will find that project managers that have only a single project on ...

As far back as in 1984, Microsoft revolutionized the project management (PM) field by introducing their Microsoft Project application. Indeed, Project’s innovative approach to developing a plan and tracking progress was God-given for managers of the time. However, the reality has immensely changed. Today the ‘cloud’ seems to be dominating everywhere – starting from website backup ...

Productive (adjective) – producing, or being able to produce, large amounts of outputs. In today’s business world, being productive has become a necessity for every employee, and every team out there. In fact, the word “productivity” is used to such an extent, that most people can’t tell the difference between productivity and effectiveness anymore. Being ...

Many people assume that taking time to organize your workspace is a waste of time, since everything will eventually turn into a mess again. This is why they decide to do it smaller chunks, like dusting a few shelves, rearranging trash cans, or organizing a few papers. However, this is ineffective. Environments in which we ...

Even new or accidental project managers know that nothing ever goes according to plan. Any deviation from the project schedule or scope, whether it’s for the better or for the worse, throws off estimates and affects resource usage across other projects. That’s why you need a project baseline. Not only do project baselines help keep ...

If you say you never have, then lucky for you, but take our word for it that it frigging sucks. There's little worse than working with a teammate who is, well, a jerk to everyone. However, being a jerk isn't the only way that it can be difficult to work with somebody. Many people are plainly nice and well-intentioned, but for whatever reason they do not function well in a team, which is a drag for everyone else.

Change. We do not not take well to change (not us, but people in general). Leaving one's comfort zone is disruptive, challenging and draining. It is hard enough for people to adjust to daylight savings time, let alone being told that a client hates a landing page design you made, and that you need to come up with an entirely new motif for their website.

In this digital age of globalization, it is difficult to come up with a unique business idea without finding out that the “wheel” has already been invented, or that somebody else on the globe had the “Eureka!” moment just about the same time you did.

Over the past several decades, project management as a discipline has gained a lot of attention. While first developed specifically for use in the construction industry, project management as a methodology has become valued within any and every industry where a task is involved, from graphic design to finance and healthcare.

Team members need to log time so that project managers can effectively track progress and plan resources. But if the process for tracking time is too inconvenient or cumbersome, then it's not going to happen--no matter how necessary it is.