Delivering value – real, strategic, measurable value – requires something more than delivering on time and within budget: commercial awareness. Project managers need to drive the commercial impacts of their projects. It’s not just about spreadsheets and budgets. It’s about understanding how your project contributes to the bigger picture, spotting opportunities, asking better questions, and…
Learn the core components of how to build a project management office (PMO) in this helpful guest post from expert Bill Dow.
Copy what I do to manage your tasks, resources and time across several projects at once! This article shares loads of tips for staying on top of lots of different projects at once.
When you are juggling several projects at once, it pays to be able to take the bigger picture view of your workload. So why does that seem so hard? Once you’re stuck in the detail of To Do lists and Gantt charts it can feel difficult to lift your head and see how everything fits…
There has always been a tension between running the business and changing the business. As a project manager, my work leading change has often felt like it’s got in the way of my colleague’s ability to run the business. Project leaders are regularly told that ‘run’ takes priority: keeping the lights on is more important…
Learn the top three productivity saboteurs at work and why people are not as productive as they would like to be.
How far does a project manager’s paycheck really go across the U.S.? We crunched the numbers using data from ZipRecruiter, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), and state-level cost of living indices to find out where project managers earn the most in real terms. Spoiler: It’s not California or New York. Hover over the…
Join me for this workshop to make sure your project status reports are read and that stakeholders take action.
Learn just what to do when you have too much work (even when you can’t admit it to yourself).
Learn why you should be using risk burndown charts to track your project’s risk exposure in this guest article from Russ Parker.
Learn how to secure resources for your projects, especially when you are managing multiple projects.
It is common for project managers to work in a multi-project workplace. Learn what it looks like and the skills you need to thrive.