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What could project manager learn from F1 driver about leadership
Project managers could learn many valuable lessons about leadership from Formula 1 drivers.
7 Key Secrets To Succeed With Your Work Management
All successful organizations have a common quality: they are led by efficient managers. A good manager is someone who motivates employees and propels them toward success. They know when to modify a strategy when something doesn’t go according to plan or praise an employee for any accomplishment.
How To Brief Your Project Idea in 5 Minutes
Selling a project idea is the ultimate key to unlocking all good business deals. Be it to your team members or subordinates or even the client itself, the idea must sit well with everyone.
Why Should You Cancel Your Project?
Project managers are some of the most resilient and hard-working bunch. They will keep at it until nothing else can be done to deliver the perfect product. But sometimes this isn’t enough, and there are telltale signs of this. It is a project manager’s job to identify the problems and tackle them head-on. Carefully dismantling each problem so that the project is completed can be a tedious task, but alas, some projects are doomed to fail.
What Can A Project Manager Learn From Uber?
As a project manager, there are loads of responsibilities that you have to fulfill. From managing your employees and ensuring that tasks and goals are achieved to reporting to executives, a project manager does it all.
6 Weak-signals in Your Project’s Environment to Follow Monthly?
Have you ever wondered what separates the good from the great when it comes to project managers? Simply put, the way a project manager handles problems when they inevitably rear their ugly heads is what separates the so-so from the great project managers. Have a look at these six weak-signals in your project's environment.
What secrets project manager should learn from KonMari concept?
Lean and agile business processes hold the key to excellence. Many businesses struggle to streamline their processes. They have a number of unnecessary protocols and processes that retard the business’s growth. If you are struggling to put your house in order, look to the KonMari concept for answers.
What could Project Managers learn from Traffic Jams
Traffic is a real-time dynamic system that is constantly changing. Every tiny change in traffic has repercussions down the line. The field of RTM or road traffic management has come about to manage such systems and prevent traffic jams and random congestion. These systems use data analytics to predict and manage traffic.
What Every Chief Officer need to know about Project Portfolio Management
According to the Project Management Institute, an increasing number of organizations are reporting added value with the appointment of a chief project officer. The chief project officer is someone who owns the responsibility of governing the internal projects of an organization. Some of the specific duties of such as officer include: Ensuring each project is supportive of business goals Driving linkages and efficiencies between projects Connecting every project to business strategy Making sure that each ...
7 Key Communication Tactics for Project Managers
What separates a good project manager from a brilliant project manager? The answer is quite simple: brilliant project managers don’t just have capabilities and technical knowledge, they are also quite adept with how to communicate with their teams at different levels.
7 Key KPIs for Effective Project Portfolio Management
Keeping a track of KPIs or Key Performance Indicators is absolutely critical to project management and success. In the absence of a system that tracks KPIs, it is nearly impossible to assess the progress of a project towards the predetermined goals.
Skills vs. Personality in Project Management
In most industries, especially IT, technical skills are often considered to be the most important criteria for hiring. When recruiting managers, a lot of companies think that the candidate must meet a long list of important skills in order to be able to perform the job efficiently. In reality, this may not be the best approach to hiring project managers. Project management isn’t just about having a set of programmed skills; it also requires certain ...
7 Criteria to Choose Project of the Year
Effective project management needs finding a project which is a perfect match for the combined skillset of your team. The project must also match the team's competence level. If all these are done, then chances of success are much more increased. The project selection techniques provide seven time-tested techniques. All seven methods are based on logical reasoning. It helps to select the best project. Undesirable projects, those that have near zero chances of success, are ...
What Scrum Master Could Learn from Jazz Artists
The Scrum Master is typically seen as a team coach and a kind of process owner in a project. Scrum masters work to create a balance between the key stakeholder demands in a project and guide the team to deliver the best performance possible. A scrum master’s responsibilities generally involve removal of barriers to progress, scheduling, facilitating meetings and handling product backlog among others. Though scrum masters are pretty adept at what they do, there ...