Productivity

Managing and boosting team productivity isn’t an easy task. On one side, you want to maintain healthy motivational levels within the team, but on the other side, you still need to work hard towards organizational goals. CONTENT Boosting team productivity: Be realistic about your timeline Boosting team productivity: Evaluate processes Boosting team productivity: Refrain from … Continue reading "Boosting team productivity: 7 tips to consider"

Project management is a long-standing profession and in the past century it has become a real subject covered by many studies and research. CONTENT Project management transformation in the 21st century Project manager’s role According to classic project management, and too often used nowadays, the success of a project is measured in terms of time, … Continue reading "21st century project management and increased productivity"

The definition of priorities is one of project managers’ main tasks and is an area where there’s always uncertainty. The need to set priorities comes from the fact that you don’t have enough resources to work on everything you want for the time you want. CONTENTS Why give priority to projects? Overview of the techniques for … Continue reading "Project priorities: 5 elements to know in order to define them correctly"

Project management may seem very formal to those unfamiliar with the project. This is due to the fact that project management draws up a specific, seemingly inflexible process for starting, monitoring and closing a project. Everything is carried out according to a consolidated methodology. CONTENTS Project Management for start-ups: Kicking off with a vision Project … Continue reading "Project Management for start-ups: 5 key tips"

Using a Team chat during a project to speed up communications and improve results? It can not only be useful, but I would say that today it has become almost indispensable. From the pictograms carved in stone to the latest chat apps, humans find always better and faster ways to communicate. Not surprisingly, MSN Messenger, … Continue reading "Project chat: how to use it to motivate the team"

People often confuse projects with processes. Some might argue that this is only a question of semantics and that saying “project” rather than “process” does not change much. CONTENT INDEX Project vs. process: the definition Project vs. process: the common points Project vs. process: the differences Further differences between process and project Projects, projects and … Continue reading "Process or project? What differences? What goals?"

Agile and Lean are two popular methods in the project management world that help teams deliver faster, more sustainable results. However, the differences and similarities between these two methodologies are often not clear. Even the terms themselves are often used in the wrong manner, as synonyms to describe a particular set of practices. For a … Continue reading "Lean and Agile: differences and similarities"

Today, the resistance to change in the company is a very important, and the same time delicate, subject. In fact, in business, it is assumed that – big or small – organizations must change to remain competitive and survive in an ever-changing market. However, facing this (big) change leads to face resistance barriers. There are … Continue reading "Corporate change: the 8 reasons that cause difficulties and resistance"

We know that, you are a project manager and you really need to close your tasks on time and on budget. Recently, increasing company’s culture has become important as well so now, to those two goals you have to add a third one: work with an happy and productive team. Work in a relaxed environment … Continue reading "How to Improve Resource Management and Get The Best From Your Team"

Have you ever had the feeling that everything in your to-do list has maximum priority? If yes, which method do you use to identify what can be postponed? Being a project manager, you know that managing project timelines is crucial; with a correct and realistic plan you will be able to work better, and all … Continue reading "3 Useful Tips to Improve Work Time Management"

Most of project managers have to face projects whose planning was done incorrectly, not in line with customer expectations, with the bad result of  big delays and budget overflows, and maybe this has happened to you too.It is true, companies are being renewed, working groups are heterogeneous and distributed, increasingly flexible, and often, this flexibility … Continue reading "How SCRUM methodology can help you minimizing project risks"

Estimate projects correctly is a difficult task that every project manager has to face. It doesn’t matter if you estimate in order to evaluate resource work load (time/effort estimation) or just to create customers’ offer (cost estimation), the problem is just the same. How can I predict exceptions, delay, bottle necks and create an estimate … Continue reading "The Most Effective Strategy to Estimate Projects"

One of the biggest challenges, a project manager can face in a new team, is to change things for the better and let this changes take effect without the resistance of the team. One of the most frequent examples is when a project manager decides to introduce a new tool for project management. This moment … Continue reading "How to Introduce Project Management Software & Succeed"

Despite what people think, being a project manager requires a lot of creativity. A project manager has to be creative managing his resources and their productivity lacks , emotions or peculiar ideas,  be creative in communication with his own bosses, be creative managing large projects with unexpected delays… So, how to stay creative even when … Continue reading "How to be an Innovative Project Manager (Infographic)"

Even if I’ve worked with Twproject for several years I get surprised every day by  its number of hidden features. The one that I show you today could really help you, if, for example, you cannot access the application and you have to create a task to save information that you can loose otherwise. Twproject … Continue reading "Tips & Tricks: Create Projects by E-mail"