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Crashing Your Schedule Is Not Your Only Choice when Facing Delays!
By Kiron D. Bondale
When our projects begin to experience schedule delays, a very common reaction from our customers may be to ask the team to work longer hours or to leverage their influence to provide additional resources to work on critical path tasks such that […]

Do You Know What Your Team Is Telling the World?
By Jim Anderson
Would it be fair to say that what your IT team is working on is top secret? In most cases the answer to this question would be probably be no. However, the companies that your company competes with would probably like to know what […]

The Secret for Forming an Incredible Team Is Learning How to Say: “You’re Fired.”
By Cristian Ángel
Unfortunately, something that no one talks about when they are forming a team for their project or their start-up is how to let someone go efficiently and correctly. The reason for this? Simple, it is an extremely difficult and uncomfortable […]

Solving Multi-PM Limitations with Resource Planning
By Patricia Goh
One would say that a project manager’s spirit animal is an octopus. With so many responsibilities, project managers are expected to be able to see things from the bigger picture, as well as being able to spot the nitty-gritty details. Alongside great communication skills and people skills, there’s […]

Top Tips for Improving Your Credibility
By Cillin Hearns
If I were to ask you to define ‘credibility’ you might say something along the lines of “I know it when I see it”, just like you know you ‘like’ someone. It’s a hard one because it’s such a subjective term but don’t dismiss the importance of ‘having […]

What Is the Silver Lining for Projects?
By Marge Tam
The proverb “For every cloud there is a silver lining” can be interpreted as for every difficult situation there is some good to it. The proverb is of said to the person that would welcome such an encouragement during trying times, and the person is unable to […]

7 Essential Project Performance Measures
By Stacey Barr
When we think about measuring the performance of a project, it’s not really the same as measuring the performance of a team or a process. So we need to think a little differently about the kinds of measures that will tell us what we really need to know.
When we […]

Project Management Foundations
By Marge Tam
As a professional Project Manager, what would the most fundamental sound advise that one would provide to fellow Project Managers at all different levels – entry level, mid-level, or senior level Project Managers? The key to project success and the fundamental principle that every Project Manager needs to know and practice […]