Projects are the cornerstone of all business activities in small companies. Firms must complete various projects to achieve their financial goals and obtain information. Business owners and managers ...

Organizations have a hard time to plan and execute the right initiatives, because project portfolio management (PPM) is not deployed as a business process. “If you can’t describe what you are doing as ...

Cost control in project management is a wide field, and there is definitely a lot to say about it. However, the most important part of getting costs under control is to first understand why it's ...

To project managers, the words project management conjure up visions of data entry, Gantt charts and long hours spent trying to guess how much money they will need to beg from management to accomplish ...

Project management is about helping a team plan and deliver a project with a pre-defined goal, within a specific period. Project managers must delegate tasks effectively and intelligently, monitor the ...

What’s the most important factor in creating a strategic IT department, one that partners successfully with and is respected by the business? For Phil Bertolini, CIO of Oakland County, Mich., it’s ...

The principles of lean manufacturing have proven their effectiveness across various industries, and the project management domain is no exception. The integration of lean principles into project ...

For many businesses and organizations, project management has received a lot of renewed focus in recent years. One reason for this is that analytics and data-driven approaches have become a high ...

I was copied on an e-mail between a senior manager in the legal department and Larry, the project manager charged with creating a contract tracking application. I did not recognize Larry’s name and ...

When businesses embark on an automation program, the path to successful implementation is far from certain. Indeed, according to Ernst & Young, around 30-50% of robotic process automation projects ...