Project Management and At-home Workers

The trend toward more and more at-home worker challenges and creates demand for project managers who can adapt their PM skills to this unique environment. As organizations move workers home to reap the facility cost savings and gain productivity and quality improvements, project managers must respond with techniques adapted to this unique work environment. At-Home … Read more

Does Your Organization Suffer From Data Paralysis?

Organizations love data in all forms, be it plain numbers, reports, trends, graphs, spreadsheets, et al. This fascination for data has created ‘factories’ that churn data by the minute. On top of this, research and studies produce additional data. Do business leaders know whether all the data generated drive better decisions? There are many organizations … Read more

Project Management for Small Businesses

Regardless of the size of a business, project management should be an important part to conducting business. Project management can be used to convey the process for managing the technical project or handling customers. Ideally, as a business owner, you should have a plan in place that you follow when developing your project plans. Many … Read more

The Best Practices Trap

The Best Practices Trap

One of the terms used very often by project management practitioners globally is ‘best practices.’ It may be surprising to note that project management itself was considered a best practice about a decade or two ago. Project Management has significantly matured since then. At the drop of a hat, professionals throw umpteen references to best … Read more

Troubled Projects: Understanding and Recovering

Troubled Projects

The Scenario A project manager is working on a project to develop a product/service in the retail domain. Two of its company’s competitors are also competing to get the product/service out on the market as soon as possible. Clearly, the first entrant would have a significant advantage. The originally planned project duration was 8 months. … Read more

Looking for Great Project Managers? Stop searching for them on Mars or Venus!

Looking for Great Management

Globally, organizations are moving towards a projected way to manage initiatives. These strategic initiatives broadly fall into three categories. Launching a New Product or Service or “From Idea to Launch” Customer Bid Projects or “From Quote to Cash” Efficiency or Productivity Enhancements or “From Request to Completion” The number of projects planned and executed has … Read more

Is your Project Healthy?

Is your Project Healthy

How many of you have done at least one of the things in last two years? Join Gym ( and hopefully went at least one day 🙂 ) Jogging/Walking Yoga Attend Health Camp Switch to healthy diet Probably most of the PEOPLE would answer YES!!! Why?? A few years ago, one would invest in health … Read more

Poka-Yoke Your Project Schedule

Poka-Yoke Your Project

One of the most important projects management documents organizations prepare is the Project Schedule. Depending on the size, duration, and complexity of the project, the schedules could run from a hundred to few hundreds and even over a thousand line items with start dates, end dates, duration, etc. As a leader, how do you make … Read more

Hard Earned Revenue, But Where Is It?

Hard Earned Revenue

As a leader, you manage multiple projects and programs as part of the organizational strategy execution framework. These projects/programs may be local, regional, or even global. If you are part of a large organization, these initiatives may cut across industry verticals. Your customers insist on different types of contracts based on the nature of the … Read more

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