As a project manager or team leader, most of your job involves balancing timeline demands against available budget and resources. PMs are also responsible for holding team members accountable and learning from past successes and failures. This is why the “management” part of project management is so important. Your life will be much easier, and ...

Easy Projects is excited to announce that we have been named a High Performer in the Spring 2018 G2 Crowd Project Management Solution report. Based on real-user reviews, Easy Projects ranks in the top 15 Project Management Software for Enterprises and appears on the Enterprise Grid® Report for Project Management | Spring 2018. G2 Crowd ...

Welcome to the guide to the new and improved Easy Projects Guest Portal. The Easy Projects Guest Portal is the perfect place for people from outside your core team to get involved in the project–whether they’re external or internal customers, vendors, or other stakeholders. In the Guest Portal, guest users can track and update their ...

Project management (PM) can be applied to nearly any industry where a project is involved. While PM has its roots in the construction and engineering industries, PM practices and principles can be applied to everything from baking lasagna to shooting a Hollywood blockbuster (both the lasagna and movie would probably turn out great). Project management ...

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.