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. […]
Does your project really need project management software? This is more than just a theoretical question, especially for small businesses and startups – there is money riding on the answer. The pros of using project management software are obvious: schedule adherence, transparency, and progress monitoring, among others. But this doesn’t make project management software absolutely […]
Christmas season has arrived, and people are hunting for holiday gifts. From stocking stuffers to the biggest box under the tree, the best gifts are the ones that are personal and useful to their recipients. Project managers are people too, right? Maybe they’re a colleague, a neighbor, or a loved one. What are good holiday […]
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 […]
The Achilles’ Heel of project management is time. Every project can succeed when time is not a factor, right? But there is always a delivery date, milestones, and hard deadlines to meet. Project time management is a key component of successful project management. Without it, a project will drift, hit delays, and eventually collapse. What […]