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Bringing leadership skills to project management is essential. It is especially true in the current dynamic environment, which is characterized by a fast pace of changes. These changes include innovations and discoveries, technology, economic and social changes.
Over the past several years, project management (PM) has experienced a paradigm shift. The frameworks in place for planning and organizing have been moving away from the traditional waterfall approach and towards more flexible, democratic approaches like agile, lean, scrum, and kanban. It’s hard to pin down any one of these terms as the embodiment of modern PM since each of them have their own unique practices and areas of application. That said, most of the recent innovations in PM process and technology have one attribute in common: bottom-up planning.
The marketing and sales department is usually depicted in pop culture as the busiest, frantic, most chaotic and stressful department in an organization. It may not equal the frenzied busyness of an emergency surgery department in a life-and-death situation, but this stereotype holds water.
In a recent Project Management Podcast, Comindware’s Product Marketing Director, Maria Kozlova, discussed the essentials of project management.
This is a guest post by Elizabeth Harrin from A Girl’s Guide To Project Management.
Project management is a tough job. There are deadlines, risks, difficult stakeholders to deal with, and more. You can make your life easier at work if you create an environment for success. Here are some tips to get you started.
Project management is a tough job. There are deadlines, risks, difficult stakeholders to deal with, and more. You can make your life easier at work if you create an environment for success. Here are some tips to get you started.
Software Advice, an HR technology reviewer, recently conducted a survey of approximately 200 HR professionals to identify the solutions their organizations currently use, the benefits and challenges tied to such solutions, and their HR technology investment plans for 2015. The survey respondents already use some form of HR software in their organizations.
When you’re in the business of managing millions of dollars in assets, one mistake can mean debilitating repercussions to both company and clients. Worse, it can undermine potential clients’ confidence in your organization, a situation you wouldn’t want to heap upon your business, as managing other people’s money is largely also dependent upon consumer trust.
Competition, the need to be agile in an ever-evolving business landscape, customers’ desire for speedy answers to queries or issues plaguing them – these are just a few of the reasons why organizations rank team collaboration as an essential factor in powering up their business processes.
Scrum project management is usually associated with the software development process, but its flexible, iterative approach has been drawing interest lately from many non-IT teams.
A recent study by the Scrum Alliance revealed that 36 percent of organizations with active Scrum projects are using it outside of IT in some capacity.
A recent study by the Scrum Alliance revealed that 36 percent of organizations with active Scrum projects are using it outside of IT in some capacity.
This is a guest post by Elizabeth Harrin of A Girl’s Guide To Project Management.
Putting together a project schedule is one of the most important tasks for a project manager. It’s also very easy to get caught out! Here are some scheduling problems and how you can beat them.