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How to Deal with People Who Ask for Estimates
A big challenge in project estimating is dealing with the requestor! Leaders often have a number in mind. They might want you to deliver an unachievable objective or expect an unreasonable level of...
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Using Personality Traits to Assign Project Tasks
Project team members come with diverse personalities. Let’s look at how to take advantage of different personalities and their work preferences throughout your project. Important! As project managers,...
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Avoiding Common Pitfalls Using AI
In a recent survey, AI in project management was my readers’ top topic to explore further. AI’s benefits are often highlighted, so let’s look at potential pitfalls using AI in project management. For...
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Building the Best Possible Project Team
We usually don’t get to pick all of our team members. When you can, focus on individuals’ characteristics that will, when combined, give you the best possible team. Here are five key traits for a...
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Criteria for Accepting Deliverables
What criteria do you use to accept a deliverable? Have you ever even thought about it? I recommend applying more scrutiny to whether a deliverable is complete when closing a task. Here are criteria for...
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Embracing an Agile Mindset
Adopting agile methodologies successfully requires the right mindset. For this iterative and adaptive approach to thrive, you need to embrace the following elements and characteristics. Speed and...
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Avoiding Traps in Technical Project
Projects involving technology are challenging for project managers. But it’s rarely the technology that presents the challenges. Here are ways to avoid common traps that trip up PMs leading projects...
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Project Review vs. Project Audit
During your career as a project manager, you might endure people poking through one of your projects, looking for things to improve. There are two typical approaches for this: a project review and a...
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Alleviate Team Member Stress
Project work isn’t for the meek. Pressure comes from management, stakeholders, and acute business needs and the resulting stress reduces team members’ performance. Helping your team alleviate their...
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Lesser-known Benefits of Quality Management
Quality management is about ensuring your deliverables meet the expectations of stakeholders: meeting standards, performance and reliability business needs. But quality management delivers extra...
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