PMI Membership for Professionals and Students: Is it Worth It?
Find out the answer to the question is PMI membership worth it for professionals and students as I explore the pros and cons in this article.
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How to use Slack for project management
Ever wondered if you can use Slack for project management? You can – and here’s how one digital project manager does it. In this short case study, Brett Harned talks about how he uses Slack to work with project teams and the benefits he finds from collaboration tools.
7 Factors of Good Governance
Find out the 7 factors that make up good governance on projects and what they look like.
5 Simple Reasons Why Processes Don’t Work
The reasons why processes don’t work are actually pretty simple. Let’s look at 5 common reasons why processes fail to serve you when managing projects and what you can do about them.
Engaging Stakeholders with Gamification [video]
In this video Elizabeth Harrin discusses how merging engagement and gamification creates engagification, a methodology to help people take action on projects. Watch the video to listen (about 30 minutes). If you prefer to read, there are closed captions in the video or there’s also a transcript underneath the video. Transcript Hello, everybody. My name…
3 Ways to Make Project Meetings Relevant to Everyone
Learn how to engage everyone during a meeting – and if you really can’t make that work, learn some strategies for keeping people as focused as possible while you have them in the room. These are great tips for anyone running meetings with multi-disciplinary teams.
A Guide to Project Closure: 12 Essential Things To Do
Here is a checklist of 12 things that you should do during project closure to make sure the work is wrapped up efficiently.
Fostering Knowledge Sharing in Project Management Communities [Video]
Do you run a knowledge community for project managers? These tips will help you boost engagement and increase knowledge sharing in your community.
How To Avoid The 4 Sins of Meetings
There are 4 meeting sins that you should definitely avoid. Gerry Lewis’s book Shine discusses what they are and how to avoid them.
Project Boards and Project Steering Groups: An Introduction
Here’s an introduction to project steering groups as part of the governance framework so you can get yours set up and working on your project.
Preceden Timeline Maker Review
Software: Preceden Pricing: Free for 1 public timeline/1 user, then there is a Personal and a Business Plan Supplier: Preceden LLC Languages: The interface is in English, but you could enter event information and labels in your own language Summary: Preceden is an online time maker that creates roadmaps and visual timelines quickly. It’s a…
Tips for Before, During & After Meetings
Managing successful meetings is not a new subject, but neither is it a waste of time to refresh ourselves about how best to manage meetings. Below, Guillermo Solis has some suggestions to bear in mind before, during and after meetings, when we are in charge of the meeting as a project manager. These are based…