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Solving business problems and improving business performance requires proper project management skills. However, having effective project management skills alone won’t guarantee success. Successful projects rely on another subtle element that is often overlooked: Project Management Discipline. Project Management Discipline  We emphasize the importance of project management knowledge for effective execution throughout our products. However, there’s … Read more

What is Critical Path Method? The Critical Path Method (CPM) is a beautiful product of human logic. By highlighting tasks that are most likely to affect the project end date, CPM helps project managers meet deadlines. But often the enthusiasm for CPM wanes when the theory is applied in practice. Put simply, the CPM works … Read more

Agile is the buzzword around! While it is advocated as a modern project management methodology, agile is just a smarter way to accomplish projects. Scrum, the most used agile methodology is an adaptive, iterative, and incremental way of executing projects. Scrum uses a series of Sprints (time-boxed iterative developments) to deliver incremental value to the … Read more

I don’t think I’m the only one who grew up thinking that by the time 2000?s finally got here, technology would be so advanced that the world would be run by robots, humans would live in colonies on the moon, and everyone would have flying cars. Am I? And yet, here we are almost to … Read more

Project Management Is outsourcing Project Management the right thing to do? I’m not talking about off-shoring customer or tech support, or manufacturing; I’m just talking about an On-Demand Project Management professional hired on an as-needed basis. Having been laid off from an event project management position last year and replaced with a consultant, you might … Read more

Ever wondered what’s all this fuss about Agile project management going around everywhere? Why organizations are using Agile Methodology in Project Management? Well, then keep reading to know about it… Agile methodology is the process by which teams can deliver a project by dividing it into several stages with also involving stakeholders in every stage … Read more

Enterprise Risk Management: In many projects, risks are identified and analysed in a random, brainstorming, fashion. This is often fatal to the success of the project, as unexpected risks arise, which have not been assessed or planned for and have to be dealt with on an emergency basis, rather than be prepared for and defended … Read more

Previously we discussed about how PM software is helpful in the field of IT Professional Services Automation. Let’s understand how Portfolio management is important and drives organisation towards success in IT Professional Service Automation. A major challenge faced by IT project and program managers in the field of IT Professional Service Automation is the effort … Read more

Every company measures success in different ways. They use baseline-reporting, slippage and earned value, issue reporting, risk analysis and tracking. Project Managers and/or the PMO are accountable to establish the metrics they will track and report the progress of their project. I would like to go out on proverbial limb to say, that most of … Read more

Project Management Software Earned value analysis is a powerful tool that can be used in project management to monitor and forecast project costs and delivery dates. If you are not utilizing earned value analysis on your project, chances are you already have the data available to begin right away. To do so, you will need … Read more