Project management

Joint work among multiple people, teams, or departments is now a standard in many businesses, but when it isn’t managed properly, it is one of the main sources of inefficiency: tasks done twice, scattered information, and unclear responsibilities. The challenge is most evident in marketing agencies, where multiple team members – often in-house, freelance, or … Continue reading "Joint Work: how to avoid confusion and redundancy"

Management control is often seen as a merely accounting process, something to deal with at the end of the month or quarter to make sure the numbers add up. In reality, when properly set up, it becomes one of the most powerful tools managers have for navigating business strategies and keeping their company on track … Continue reading "How to improve management control activities in your business"

Knowing how to best manage a team when the pressure mounts is one of the most sought-after (and least taught) skills in project management. Tight deadlines, unexpected events, and client requests that change mid-project: pressure is often unavoidable, but how a manager deals with it dictates whether it becomes a productive force or a threat … Continue reading "How to best manage a team under pressure"

Fragmented IT project management has only one outcome: wasted effort, avoidable delays, and teams that never get the full picture. Excel spreadsheets in different versions, fragmented chats and emails, and ticketing tools disconnected from the project plan—this is the daily scenario for many departments. Fortunately, this is a solvable problem—with the right approach and the … Continue reading "Fragmented IT project management: how to deal with it in 5 Steps"

The project buffer is one of the most powerful—and underrated—tools in modern project management. When a project suffers delays, it is rarely due to a single event: it is the result of dozens of micro-delays that multiply throughout the sequence of activities, silently eating away at every available safety margin. Even so, most teams still … Continue reading "Manage your project buffer and get rid of delays with Twproject"

Budgeting and management control are two key tools for any project manager who wants to manage project costs, resources, and timelines without losing track of how the work is actually progressing. A project that overshoots its budget is not just an accounting problem. It’s a indication that something went wrong: an overly optimistic estimate, an … Continue reading "Budgeting and Management Control: stop wasting money"

If your company follows structured methodologies, you know how important the gate review is. These strategic checkpoints are designed to assess your project’s status before approving the move to the next phase. But what happens when the data fails to convince stakeholders and the red flag is raised? For many, seeing their activities stuck at … Continue reading "Gate review: what to do if your project come to a halt"

Consulting firms operate in a structurally different environment from any other organization: their primary product isn’t a physical item or software, but rather people’s time and expertise. Each commission is a unique project, with a different client, specific objectives, and a team that often works on multiple assignments simultaneously. As such, project management isn’t just … Continue reading "Project management for consulting firms"

One of the main challenges of working as a department head is distributing work in a balanced way. With Twproject, you can create tasks, checklists, and recurring activities, assign them to specific team members with priorities and deadlines, and always keep track of who is doing what. As a result, every sales representative or operator … Continue reading "Department Manager: how to use Twproject (without being a project manager)"

Hourly reporting is one of the key tasks in project management, both in the business world and in public sectors such as educational institutions. Creating a clear, accurate, and easy-to-read report allows you to keep costs under control, stay within budget, and prove that human resources are being allocated correctly. In this article, we’ll take … Continue reading "Project hour reporting: how to compile a report"

Want to find out how to structure projects using “work packages,” a versatile tool that forms the basis of project management? We discuss it here. Work packages are a key concept in project management and represent the lowest level of a WBS (Work Breakdown Structure). Understanding what they are, how they are created and how … Continue reading "Work packages: what are they and what relation do they have with wbs?"

Every trade has its own toolbox. Woodworkers have planes and chisels; surgeons have scalpels and precision instruments. The project manager is no exception: to complete a project according to schedule, budget and expected quality, they need a specific set of tools, methodologies, and skills. But what, exactly, should be in this toolbox? More importantly, how … Continue reading "The Project Manager’s Toolbox"

The adoption of microservices and the emergence of microteams are redefining not only software architectures but also the way projects are planned, managed, and completed. In this article, we will take a look at how this evolution affects development processes, what benefits it provides to organizations, and how project managers can adapt to remain competitive. … Continue reading "Project management in the microservices and microteams era"

Quiet quitting is an increasingly discussed topic in the workplace, especially in project management. It does not involve actually quitting, but rather adopting an attitude where employees choose to do only the bare minimum, limiting their efforts strictly to what is required by their contract without going the extra mile. This behavior has a major … Continue reading "The “Quiet Quitting” phenomenon in projects"

Calendars are essential tools for organizing meetings, deadlines, and tasks. Without a synchronized calendar, however, the risk of disorganization is always just around the corner. Nowadays, managing projects means coordinating time, resources, and priorities. Even so, in many companies, schedules are still scattered across different tools: Excel spreadsheets, Google Calendar, personal planners, and non-integrated software. … Continue reading "Too many calendars? Switch to a unified, synchronized calendar"