In the office setting, there are two types of people who get things done: (1) those who are busy and (2) those who are productive. The busy type work hard, but still end up working nights, weekends, or even holidays just to keep up.  Busy people are often too tired to enjoy their personal lives ...

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 ...

How to estimate project time and resources When a Project Manager is presented with a project and asked “Can you do this?”, “How long it will take?”, “How much resources will you require?” his immediate answers can only include that to question one, going like:  “I think so”. To answer the other two questions, he ...

Teams that work well together are more productive, more effective, and ultimately, provide higher quality results in relatively less amount of time. In project management, effective teamwork is one of the most important (and also hardest) tasks to accomplish. Team building activities are a both fun and intelligent way to establish close relationships between team ...

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 ...

“I’ll start this in just a few minutes” “Ok, let’s have a coffee break and get to work” “I’ll just do that tomorrow” “Oh, this can wait a bit” “I simply don’t have this much time” “Meow” If you have ever tried to get teenagers to listen to their parents, teach cats how to behave ...

Do employees who appear eager to join your company, move on to new opportunities that “can’t be passed up” after just a couple months after joining? Do your new hires stop showing up after a week or two? Let’s get to the bottom of this mystery. Employee turnover will happen,but an eternal employee is a ...

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 ...

There has never yet been a more principled battle among project management mavens than that of agile vs. waterfall methodologies. The proponents of both movements claim to have quite weighty pros for ditching the opposite model as ineffective and/or outdated.