
Do you have difficulty engaging in budget discussions for new projects, particularly during initial client meetings when it can be tempting to make promises that will be challenging to carry out? If so, you’re not alone! This article explores five ways to help you gracefully avoid backing yourself into a corner.

Why do so many projects fail? Researchers regularly conduct studies to find out the leading causes of project failure.

Can you be a lazy and successful project manager? Ok, so I have been reviewing corporate and government processes for managing projects this week, and the first thing that came to my mind is “OH my! There is no way I could get all these steps, documents, gates, checkpoints, etc

A RACI chart is a matrix of all the activities or decision making authorities undertaken in an organisation set against all the people or roles. At each intersection of activity and role it is possible to assign somebody responsible, accountable, consulted or informed for that activity or decision. This guide sets down in a clear way the benefits of the approach and takes the reader through the steps needed to create and then analyse a RACI Chart.

Depending on the structure of your organisation, the project manager is most likely the person who interacts with the broadest range of stakeholders.

Project managers, when you hire well, can become your most favourite person on the planet.

The accuracy of your cost estimation process can make or break project success.

It’s that time of year again when we reflect on what we had hoped to accomplish in the past year and what we plan to accomplish in the next.

“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress

For most service departments the demand for new projects will occasionally outweigh the department’s capacity to do them.

When you manage a new project to streamline an organisation’s website or to develop a new website, you must gather input from many people inside the organisation. In “Content Management Bible,” Bob Boiko has authored a section on the requirements process.

Browse up on your organisation’s competency requirements and set more informed business directions concerning your people. Management needs a checkpoint to determine if performance meets organisational requirements, given the knowledge and skills set of the employees.