Building strong connections with your internal team and external clients is the secret sauce that makes everything better. Here are five reasons why building those relationships is not just a “nice to have,” but a “must have” in project management.
In continuous improvement, incremental changes over time yield substantial long-term impacts. This practitioner explores a PMO CI-centered hybrid method for cost reduction and stakeholder engagement.
From toddler tantrums to project budgets, our two worlds demand precision, adaptability, and endless negotiation. Here’s how one practitioner's dual roles overlap—and how lessons from one world often help her navigate the other.
As you address disagreements or conflict with and among others, explicitly decide on what your value, ego and relationship factor goals are as you navigate to a meaningful resolution.
The alignment of strategic planning with execution stands as a critical yet often elusive goal. Here we explore how project managers can serve as the pivotal bridge, ensuring that strategic plans are not just visionary documents, but roadmaps to tangible outcomes.
Your job as a project manager is to help your customer’s overall success. To help you along in your customer-centric journey, here are four tips to consider.
Knowing your stakeholders' values can unearth career opportunities you might not have considered. This can help you in your personal and professional growth. Let's take a look at some crucial stakeholders—and the benefits they can provide.
It all started with a webinar on ProjectManagement.com and the follow-up questions received from participants. This inspired the presenters' decision to embark on the adventure of writing a book—which became a complex project unto itself.
Like the project manager, a wedding planner must work with various vendors, suppliers and participants involved in the wedding. These are the project team members, each with a specific role to play in bringing the wedding vision to life.
It’s no longer enough for product managers to work only with other managers. Many individuals will be working on projects as team members, stakeholders and customers. Getting to know them will continue to increase in importance.