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Project Management

8 Must-Have Project Reports

Key project reports for project & portfolio managers: timesheets, expenses, status, workload, portfolio, milestones, task completion, & tracking.

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How to have fun with day to day project management

Project Management is serious business; it takes a perfect symphony of people, processes, tools and culture for a project to be successful. As complex as daunting as it can be, the project management discipline provides ample scope for those involved to have fun. With a simple change in perspective, Project managers can infuse fun into mundane day-to-day project management activities. How you ask? Read on…

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Productivity

INFOGRAPHIC: Working in a New Team – Tips for Rookie Project Managers

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Leadership

Three Ways to Encourage Gratitude in a Project Team

Many businesses rely on hard skills in production and servicing their customers. By “hard skill,” it refers to tangible and measurable abilities. However, to ensure the success of a project, soft skills matter a great deal. It would be impossible to manage a team without any soft skills. Moreover, gratitude is one of the most overlooked. Yes, being grateful is also a skill. As simple …

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PPM

INFOGRAPHIC: These 7 Lessons from Most Common Startup Mistakes can Help Your Project

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PPM

INFOGRAPHIC: 7 Ways to Reduce Costs with Project Management Software

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Agile

Agile or Waterfall? 8 Tips to Help You Decide

If you are running a software project, one of the questions you are likely to come across is which development methodology to use. Some like to stick to a traditional waterfall approach whereas others are keen advocates of an agile methodology. In reality, many projects end up somewhere in between; with a methodology that is neither extremely agile nor extremely rigid.

Oct 2016Read More

Leadership

Done Is Better Than Perfect: How To Manage Your Projects The Right Way

What makes a perfect project? Ask any project manager and they will all have conflicting answers. Some may quote cost effectiveness, others may say delivery before the deadline and some may say planning. But do we really have a scale to measure how perfect a project is?

Oct 2016Read More

Project Management

Dealing With Accountability Issues in a Project Team

Project team members are both responsible and accountable for their tasks. Despite the similarities, both terms aren’t identical. A good project manager must be able to distinguish “accountability” from “responsibility” to ensure project success. And the key is being clear and transparent and performing on-going reporting.

Oct 2016Read More

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IT Industry Outlook for Project Management Tools Adoption

roject management tools obviously have a central role to play in addressing most of these challenges. Today project managers rely on PM tools for planning, task management, resource management, budget management, collaboration and analysis & reporting. It is therefore important to understand what project management software buyers are looking for. Our good friends at Software Advice helped us out with their latest report IT Project Management Tools – Buyer Report 2016. Here are key insights from their report.

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Collaboration

INFOGRAPHIC: How Project Management Software helps Small Teams do Big Things

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Productivity

10 Guidelines for Estimating Project Effort

Many projects start off on the wrong foot because the effort involved in delivering them has been underestimated. It is human nature to want to deliver something well and quickly, but underestimating the complexities of a project serves no one. As project managers, it is our job to make sure that the team understands what the users want and how much it will cost to produce what they want. This is one of the cornerstones of being able to successfully deliver a project.

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