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Managing Contractors

by Kenneth Darter, PMP July 5, 2016

Contractors and consultants may be a necessary part of your project team, but you cannot manage their work in the same manner you manage employees--or even matrixed resources.

Managing Locally Remote Talent

by Andy Jordan January 17, 2018

Project managers increasingly find themselves managing resources who aren’t in the office much—if ever. How do they do that effectively?

Man-Hour Capacity Planning

by Elok Robert Tee December 20, 2016

A team may work on multiple and overlapping projects. The estimated time and the manner to accomplish the projects may be planned and monitored as cumulative man-hours. Learn how different performance benchmarks may be utilized for man-hour capacity planning.

Maximizing Your Team's Superpowers

by Karen Chovan December 8, 2016

As project managers or team leads, we should quickly get to know what our team members are good at, and what they are not. Their characteristics and working styles may vary, but each will have his or her own way of getting things done.

Mindset as a Medicine: Driving Project Success

by Dr. Deepa Bhide, PMP December 19, 2016

While skill-based hiring can help with short-term goals, mindset-based hiring will help an organization realize long-term gains. But organizations struggle to have processes in place that will help them hire resources with the right mindset.

Moving Talent Acquisition to the PMO

by Rick Huff February 16, 2017

Should business leadership move hiring and recruitment into the project management organization? Based on the similarities found between his talent acquisition experience and current training, this author says yes—and shares the potential benefits.