The following is a guest post. Jimmy Cowan is an avid reader. His love for reading was inspired by his grandmother who introduced him to reading. Jimmy is a certified speed reader and reviews the best speed reading techniques on his website. A project generally goes through 5 stages – Initiate, plan, execute, monitor and control, and closure. […]
Project scope management is an increasingly integral part of modern project management. Projects used to be mostly linear processes. Managing project scope simply meant making sure tasks were done on time. Today’s projects are more complex. Modern projects are fluid, and agile. Tracking progress may mean measuring one task against another, across a supply chain, with […]
Improvisation is not a skill that comes to mind when discussing project management. When disaster strikes, though, project managers who can improvise will weather the storm far better than those who can’t. What kind of improvisation is important for a project manager? And how do you develop it? Let’s start with a small example. As […]
What is project management? Simplest put, the art and science of taking an idea to reality by planning and managing who does what, when, and how. That’s the basic definition – but the devil is always in the details, as they say. Project management is about projects, and projects aren’t just anything. The two basic […]
Motivation is one of the crucial soft skills in a project manager’s toolkit. A project team is only as effective as its least motivated member, after all. Successful delivery requires a team giving their everything. Soft skills often separate the game changer project manager from the pack. Motivation is one of those important project management […]