Top 10 Blogs for Project Management Innovators: Reader's Choice
The voting for your favorite blogs about project management, innovation and 2.0 is finally over. I received over 230 votes, and it took quite a while to summarize the results. Now that the top 10 list of blogs for project management innovators is ready, I’m happy to share it with you. 1. PMPodcast 2. PM Student
Top 5 Project Management Myths BUSTED (Infographic)
What do local advertising firms have in common with booming global enterprises? They all have to run projects. And where there are projects, there are people who need to manage them. Although it is integrated into most professional work environments, project management is still surrounded by a lot of misconceptions and myths. They say it's "just
The Foundation of Good Choices: Measure Thrice and Cut Once
. How do you know that the option you’re going to choose is the best one? In such big decisions, you can’t rely on flipping a coin. Here is a well-known solution valued by millions of decision-makers: Compare different alternatives. Even if you have a favorite variant, it doesn’t hurt to take a look at other options
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Conduct Lessons Learned Throughout the Engagement
A June 2010 survey that I personally conducted of project managers and project personnel showed that 57% of responders indicated that they conducted lessons learned sessions either not at all or less than 10% of the time. Now consider that more than 50% of all projects fail (as much as 76% fail as noted in one
Track time spent on your tasks in Wrike
The time-tracking feature is now released in Wrike, the project management software. We have received many inquiries from our users about ability to track time in Wrike, so we decided to implement this feature. Professional services providers, companies that work with freelancers, implement hourly pay, or have many projects and employees — all of you
How to Combat the 4 Main Sources of Scope Creep
"It might be a good idea to add this feature." "Let's extend the test cycle so we have more data." "I hate adding to your work but can you...?" These sentences, once uttered, herald the onset of every project manager's recurring nightmare — that phenomenon of a project ballooning in size and scope, while budgets and timelines remain
Wrike For Creatives: How a Music Producer Gets Things Done
We talk a lot on the Wrike blog about businesses needing tools to get their act together. But it's not just construction companies, software development teams, and marketing agencies that have to organize their work to be efficient. There is also a large community of creatives using online project management software to coordinate their projects.
How to Respond to a Frustrated Project Customer
I'd like to say I never experience customer frustrations on any of my projects, but the truth is I've experienced some degree of customer frustration on nearly every project at some point during the process. It may be a big issue or it may be something miniscule, but at some point it usually happens. Customer frustrations
How Technology Affects Project Management
It was not that long ago that a printed-out Project Charter would be the start of project approval. The key stakeholders would physically sign the document, which would be passed in the internal mail between parties, finally returning to the project manager to update the version control for the document to version 1.0. She would
How to Build a Culture of Sharing in Distributed Project Teams, and More Questions from PMI Dallas Chapter Dinner
After the short holiday break, the new year quickly gained momentum. The first event on my 2013 speaking calendar was the dinner meeting at PMI Dallas Chapter. The topic of remote collaboration and its efficiency brought up a great discussion. The engagement of the audience is a clear sign of how many project managers face
11 Quora Questions on Team, Product, and Project Management to Put on Your Must-Read List
In addition to learning from your own experience, it’s often useful to know how other professionals in your field coped with particular management questions and challenges. That’s when Quora, the popular Q&A service, comes in handy. From its massive knowledge base, we made a selection of threads with the most stirring and insightful discussions on project,
