5 Resolutions for Today's PM

Tushar is an experienced product management and marketing professional and the VP of Marketing for Innotas.

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You have mastered the use of plans and processes, but a modern project manager must resolve to go beyond execution, consider the big picture, and contribute to business value. Here are five resolutions to take your professional development to the next level in 2016.

The winter holidays are in the rear-view mirror, January is over, and the Super Bowl is in the air, but it's not too late for project managers to create their professional resolutions for 2016. And if you are off to a bad start (guilty as charged), consider scrapping — or maybe just revising — those month-old resolutions and challenge yourself with some new ones. (If it makes you feel better, you can tell yourself that you are being "agile.")

Here are my favorite resolutions for the modern project manager:

1. Seek to contribute business value

As a project manager, you play a crucial role in propelling your organization forward through successful delivery of initiatives. You have likely mastered project execution through the effective use of plans, processes and influence. These efforts result in the completion of projects on-time and on-budget. On the surface this sounds like a win, but is it really enough in this hyper-competitive world? As a project management practitioner, you need to think beyond delivery or execution and look at how your efforts can make more business …

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