As with most things, your efforts will be scrambled when you work without intention. Without direction, you can easily get stuck moving in circles. Team management is no different. When handled without direction, intention, goals, and care, a team transforms from a resource into a liability. They could be moving effectively toward your goals or stuck…
Stakeholder management is a method that every project manager finds themselves using eventually. You might think a couple of meetings here, and there will cover you, but as you grow, you learn that that is simply not the case. Every project takes place inside an environment, which is almost entirely set up by the stakeholders involved.…
For centuries, people have participated in risk management. Our ancestors feuded with other tribes to protect their access to resources. And these days, this practice looks more like washing our hands and using coupons. The stakes might differ, but every person you know participates in risk management. For example, in project management, we use risk management…
The role of project management is not nearly as straightforward as you’d think. When you ask someone, and they answer with words like planning and controlling and managing, that doesn’t seem like much. But in all reality, each of those words acts as an umbrella over a bunch of individual tasks. It’s a bit confusing, like…