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Regardless of your company or industry, 2020 changed lives and careers. For Project Managers, the challenges of guiding a team through work processes are now heavily impacted by changes in team member’s personal environment in addition to changes in the business. To navigate 2021, Project Managers must balance management and leadership skills, and know when […]

Agile, Project Management

Think Top-Down and Bottom-Up for Agile Transformations

Erin Aldridge, PMP, PMI-ACP, & CSPO

A question that I’m asked regularly during my classes is what the best place is to start agile transformations within a company? Given a choice, I’d prefer to use the cop-out (but correct) answer “It depends”, but otherwise I usually respond that you’d want to do both a top-down and bottom-up approach simultaneously. Download the

Continuing Education, Project Management, Training and Development

Take Note: Note Taking for Success

Megan Bell

After deciding to invest in your professional development, you can maximize your investment by setting yourself up for successful comprehension of the course content by improving how you take notes during your class. Your personal note-taking style, the format in which you take notes and what you do with those notes, can have a direct

Professional Development, Project Management

LinkedIn For Your Project Management Career

Megan Bell

What is LinkedIn LinkedIn is a network founded in 2002 with a focus on career development, job advancement, and professional networking. It’s power of influence is supported by the $26.2 billion price tag Microsoft paid for it in 2016. Unlike Facebook, Instagram or other social networks, Linked is an “employment-related social network” offering members professional

Project Management

Is the PMI-PBA ® Certification for You? Probably!

Erin Aldridge, PMP, PMI-ACP, & CSPO

Are you one of the 1,000,000+ Project Management Professionals (PMP)® who are thinking about your next career development move to stay fresh, keep current, reinvent yourself, or just refine your knowledge in a professional area of interest? That’s good. Because this is not the time to let your skills stagnate and there are so many opportunities

Agile, Project Management

Agile for All

Megan Bell

Teams that seek to deliver quality, tested deliverables in as short a timeframe as possible are likely already using Agile practices even if they do not know it. The Agile Project Management framework in fact leverages practices that are so common that they do not have an “origin” story, such as prioritization, stand-up meetings, and

Project Management

What is the Status of Your Status Reports?

Megan Bell

The time you spend to ensure you have effective and efficient status reports, will benefit you in current projects and beyond. Use the three tips below to take a careful look at your current reporting and find ways to make it move from a “yellow” or “red” status to “green” thus ensuring better communications in

PMP Exam Prep, Professional Development, Project Management

Why Choose a PMI Authorized Training Partner (ATP) for Your Training

Megan Bell

Project Management Institute’s (PMI) Authorized Training Partners program ensures that all training content and instructors are aligned with industry standards so you can be confident about the variety of courses in your area. Whether you’re looking for an entire project management course, or if it’s just a refresher on key skills like communication – Project

Project Management

Project Managers: Don’t Neglect Your “Back to the Office” Plan!

Kiron Bondale

It would be an understatement to say that project managers have had to deal with a lot of change this year. Projects have had their budgets vastly reduced or been cancelled outright, and remote work has become the norm rather than the exception. We are still far from the end of the pandemic, but in

Project Management

Managing Project Scope

Megan Bell

Everything is ready for your Project Kick Off: a scope statement, a defined process for approvals, a documented change process, and a detailed Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). Everything will go exactly as planned from Day One, right? Uh, likely not. Project Managers have to manage the change requests guaranteed to come from the start. The