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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 […]

Agile

Five Common Agile Myths

Erin Aldridge, PMP, PMI-ACP, & CSPO

In 2015 I wrote an article intending to debunk some common myths about project management. Like many of you, I spent a reasonable amount of time during my first few years participating in online forums correcting agile misconceptions. Unfortunately, just like lopping heads off the Hydra, every time I’d address one myth, a short time later it

Critical Project: Earn Your PMP® Certification in 2020

Megan Bell

As the job market evolves, you should always be working on keeping skills fresh and expertise sharp. A Project Management Professional (PMP)® certification enhances the professional standing of anyone, regardless of whether your official title is “project manager” or if project management is a skill set within many you have. Research for the U.S. suggests

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

Project Management

Project Management Software: Gotta Have or Nice to Have?

Megan Bell

It is hard to count the times I have been asked, “what is the best project management software?” with the implied belief that the right software will ensure project success. Project Management (PM) software is a very powerful tool helping to manage the team’s tasks, to manage changes, and to monitor the progress towards deliverables.

Professional Development, Project Management

Managing Unrealistic Project Schedules

Megan Bell

There you are, making yet another change in your once perfect project schedule; the client keeps changing the scope, the team’s productivity is slipping, and your budget cannot cover the newly requested features. How did this happen? Project Managers of all levels of experience and in every industry will face the dreaded project with an

Project Management

Fixing a Troubled Project

Megan Bell

If when you were hiring an expert, they told you there was maybe a 50% chance they could actually complete the work you requested but that you should pay them up front and never ask questions, you would most likely look for a different solution. And yet, managers expect Project Managers to plan for a

Project Management

Are You an Unbeliever?

Kiron Bondale

I was asked a very unique question by one of the learners in a project management course I taught this week: “How do I motivate my team members when even I don’t believe in the project?“.