Why You Need to Record Your Project Management Lessons Learned: Tips & Templates
You've checked off the last few tasks on your to-do list, submitted the final deliverable, and shaken hands with a group of happy stakeholders. Time to congratulate your project team on a job well done and pop the champagne! Wait, what do you mean the project's not finished? Record lessons learned?? Groan. It can be tough
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Enjoy the Turkey: A Project Manager’s Guide to Surviving Thanksgiving Day
Many people see project management as a complicated tangle of work breakdown structures, spreadsheets, critical path timelines, risk assessments… There’s a reason they give out certifications for this stuff! But as David Allen astutely points out everyone is a project manager — especially on Thanksgiving Day. What size turkey do you need? What if dinner’s ready,
10 Reasons the Death Star Project Failed (Infographic)
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… The Death Star projects failed spectacularly. Learn from the Empire’s mistakes and keep your projects from falling to the Dark Side! Check out our new Star Wars-inspired infographic and avoid further destruction by sharing it with all your padawans. You can share this infographic with all your
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How to organize client projects in Wrike
If you provide professional services, you may be wondering: What is client database management, and how can I do it right? It may be convenient for you to organize your tasks in Wrike in the context of clients. You can create a special folder for each client and share it with him only. That way
What Are KISS Principles in Project Management?
Think about the last time you had a “Eureka!” moment. Was it because you discovered something sophisticated, complex, and hard to understand — with all sorts of bells and whistles along the way? Probably not. More likely, your last lightbulb moment made you slap your forehead and say, “Why didn’t I think of that before?” Our
15 Project Management Quotes to Live By (Infographic)
Inspiration comes in many forms: stories from peers or elders, images of great feats of accomplishment, emotional videos, and quotes from leaders of today and years past. My preferred source is quotations. I save Word documents full of my favorites, bookmark quote sites after scrolling through them for hours, print them out for my wall,
How to Create Project Templates in Wrike
Are you a marketing manager making a daily SEO campaign for each new client you take on? Or are you a project manager who has a complex product development workflow that takes hours to set up? You know there has to be an easier way to manage all these repeating projects without banging your head on
48 Experts Share Their #1 Tip for New Project Managers
In our LinkedIn Project Management 2.0 group (you can join us here!), we asked experienced project managers to divulge their #1 tip for newcomers to the field. Not surprisingly, these process fanatics shared a plethora of great tips to help newcomers succeed in this ever-changing area of work. Interested in what kind of advice they had
Sprint to Success with Scrum for Dummies (Book Review)
While there are plenty of advantages to becoming a Scrum team, transitioning from traditional project management methods to this new Agile methodology has its challenges. Scrum for Dummies presents this process in an easy-to-understand way and guides readers in implementing its strategies with their teams.
What is a SIPOC Diagram & How is It Used?
At first, creating a new business process seems simple. But even if you’ve identified a complete, linear path from your suppliers to your customers, you may start to notice complications. Wrangling a list of departments that need to get involved. Figuring out how to transfer a product from one department to another. Finding a way to
Sharing Insights into Project Management 2.0 with Gina Abudi
During the interview, Gina asked me to reflect on the essence of Project Management 2.0 and explain how it fits into the current trends in the project management space. Providing various examples, I highlighted what differentiates Project Management 2.0 from traditional project management practices. I also described how the approach works in Wrike, our project management
How to Master the 5 Phases of the Project Management Life Cycle
The Project Management Book of Knowledge (PMBOK) outlines five phases of the project management life cycle. We’re breaking down this model (and its importance) with diagrams and examples, as well as how you and your team can maximize each phase for a killer project.