ProjectManager.com
MARCH 19, 2025
PRINCE2 (Projects IN Controlled Environments) is a widely used project management methodology mostly found in Europe and especially the United Kingdom. This structured approach to managing projects includes something called the project board. What is a project board in PRINCE2? Thats what well answer first. Then well explain who makes up a project board and their key responsibilities.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
JANUARY 4, 2025
I remember that a few weeks after I started back at work after maternity leave, one of my long-time stakeholders sent a message to someone pretty high up in the business saying, " project communication was so much better when Elizabeth was around". Its nice to hear people say I was doing something right, although it was a bit of a shame that she hadnt realized I was already back at my desk.
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Scrum.org
JANUARY 2, 2025
As the new year begins, its the perfect time to reflect on how we can improve as Agile practitioners. This isnt about sweeping overhauls or lofty ambitionsits about making small, focused improvements that bring big results over time. Below, youll find a list of Agile New Years resolutions to inspire your team. Heres how to use them: Pick One Resolution: At your next retrospective, review these ideas together and identify one resolution that resonates most with your team.
Planio
JANUARY 6, 2025
When life gets busy, it can feel counterproductive to step back and take the long view. Instead, most of us are used to putting our head down and focusing on the task at hand. But, without even realizing it, taking the short-term view is killing your productivity. The most productive people are ruthlessly organized but this doesnt happen by accident.
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Incorporating generative AI (gen AI) into your sales process can speed up your wins through improved efficiency, personalized customer interactions, and better informed decision- making. Gen AI is a game changer for busy salespeople and can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as customer research, note-taking, and writing emails, and provide insightful data analysis and recommendations.
Binfire
JANUARY 13, 2025
The digital age has brought tremendous advantages to businesses, particularly in project management. In particular, cloud services have revolutionized how teams collaborate, store data, and execute projects. However, with this increased reliance on technology comes heightened concerns about data security. Ensuring the confidentiality and integrity of sensitive information is paramount.
Project Management Update brings together the best content for project management professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Inloox
MARCH 13, 2025
We have all been there: It is the beginning of a new project, and the the scope is not yet completely clear. Yet, you are supposed to present a rough plan with tasks, estimated effort und approximate deadlines the kick-off meeting. Then it suddenly hits you, the Fear Of The Empty Kanban , or FOTEK for short. Paralyzed, you stare at the empty Kanban board and dont really know where to start.
MPUG
FEBRUARY 14, 2025
A major hospital renovation was proceeding smoothly until an infection control specialist raised concerns that would add $2 million to the budget. The project manager had gathered approvals from every department head but missed this critical hidden stakeholder. According to our recent MPUG survey, 53% of project managers rank stakeholder management as their biggest challenge and it’s often these invisible influencers who create the most significant impacts.
Musings on Project Management
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
How many ways are there to say "Cost"?Certainly, more than one!When "they" ask: 'How do YOU manage cost?", your answer is: 'It's complicated' because there are so many varieties of 'cost'.
Alan Parker Blog
JANUARY 14, 2025
Establishing Procedures for Evidence Collection in Information Security Oorganisations face increasing risks from information security events. To ensure that such incidents are managed effectively, it is crucial to have robust procedures in place for identifying, collecting, acquiring, and preserving evidence. These measures are essential for maintaining integrity and supporting disciplinary or legal actions when required.
Speaker: Chris Townsend, VP of Product Marketing, Wellspring
Over the past decade, companies have embraced innovation with enthusiasm—Chief Innovation Officers have been hired, and in-house incubators, accelerators, and co-creation labs have been launched. CEOs have spoken with passion about “making everyone an innovator” and the need “to disrupt our own business.” But after years of experimentation, senior leaders are asking: Is this still just an experiment, or are we in it for the long haul?
Green Project Management
JANUARY 8, 2025
We need to talk about Greenwashing in projects. In the GPM P5 Standard for Sustainability in Project Management, we provide prescriptive guidance on 49 sustainability topics. Among them is one thats critical in todays world: green claims and greenwashing. This issue has become increasingly prevalent as organizations rush to signal sustainability without committing to the […] The post How to Recognize Project Greenwashing: A Case Study appeared first on The GPM Blog.
ProjectManager.com
JANUARY 21, 2025
Scheduling tasks to meet deadlines, assign resources and estimate costs are fundamental to the planning phase in project management. One of the most important tools for project managers to accomplish this is project timeline software. We review the best project timeline software, listing pros, cons, pricing and more to help customers make an informed decision.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
How often does your brain take shortcuts? If youve ever questioned if you really did clean your teeth this morning, youll realize that your brain takes shortcuts all the time. Unconscious bias is another shortcut. It shapes many of our decisions without us even realizing it. From hiring choices to project planning and team dynamics, these biases, deeply ingrained through culture, experience, and cognitive shortcuts, can impact fairness, efficiency, and innovation.
Scrum.org
MARCH 9, 2025
TL;DR: The Alignment-to-Value Pipeline Effective product development requires both strategic alignment and healthy Product Backlog management. Misalignment leads to backlog bloat, trust erosion, and building the wrong products. By implementing proper alignment tools, separating discovery from delivery, and maintaining appropriate backlog size (3-6 sprints), teams can build products that truly matter.
Speaker: Dylan Secrest
Construction projects are high-stakes operations where even minor inefficiencies can lead to costly delays, safety concerns, and budget overruns. Managing risk in construction has always been a challenge, but as projects grow in complexity, traditional methods no longer cut it. Enter Digital Transformation - a game changer approach that replaces inefficiency with AI-powered analytics, real-time monitoring, and automated workflows to proactively manage risk.
Planio
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
Lack of consistency, frequent scope changes, and poor governance are three of the most common reasons that projects fail. If you recognize these challenges, a structured project methodology, such as the Stage Gate process, can help you overcome them, by bringing control and consistency to your deliveries. The Stage Gate process breaks projects down into distinct stages and gates.
Planview
JANUARY 7, 2025
With business disruptions now constant, organizations must continuously evolve how they deliver projects to anticipate market shifts. To explore this challenge, I sat down with Andy Jordan, President of Roffensian Consulting S.A., to discuss the key project management focus areas for 2025. In this article, I offer a quick glimpse into that discussion and some closing thoughts on how you can embrace, adapt, and move forward.
NimbleWork
JANUARY 2, 2025
Agile is more than a methodologyits a mindset that has revolutionized how organizations deliver value, adapt to change, and foster collaboration. From Software development to enterprise-level transformations, Agile has become the cornerstone of modern work, empowering teams to be flexible, iterative, and customer-focused. At its heart, Agile thrives on continuous learning, shared knowledge, and the passionate contributions of its practitioners and thought leaders.
The IIL Blog
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
By Jeff Zircher February 12, 2025 In todays fast-paced world, there is an increasing emphasis on quick decision-making. We often hear phrases like “trust your gut” or “act fast before it’s too late.” Early in my career at Caterpillar, I created a self-induced need or compulsion to make decisions quickly. There was a feeling of needing to get on with it or quickly make a decision to demonstrate decisiveness.
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MPUG
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
One might conclude that agile approaches to project management, such as Scrum, mean there is no need for gate reviews. We suggest blanket statements like that are of little use and amount to checking our brains at the door. We say the same thing if one adopts gate reviews for every product development project. In product development, project gates stand as crucial checkpoints, like the Roman god Janus, looking both backward and forward.
Online PM Courses
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
Agile projects are like any other, in that they need a communication plan. But you will want to adapt your approach to suit the fact you are working in an Agile way and also the particular agile methodology you have chosen. This video is safe for viewing in the workplace. This is learning, so, sit […] The post Agile Project Communications: How to Adapt Project Communications to an Agile Environment appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.
Alan Parker Blog
JANUARY 13, 2025
Securing Information in Cloud Services: Best Practices and Strategies The rapid adoption of cloud services has revolutionised organisational operations, offering unparalleled flexibility, scalability, and cost-efficiency. However, these advantages come with unique information security challenges that demand robust management. Organisations must implement structured processes for acquiring, managing, and exiting cloud services to protect their information assets and adhere to stringent security s
Lodgify
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
If you’re planning to invest in a short-term rental property for 2025 , you’ll also want to invest in the right rental insurance. In most cases, typical homeowner insurance will not cover the vast majority of issues that arise in short-term rentals. Since short-term rentals can be unoccupied for long periods of time and guests could cause property damage, insurance companies consider them to be very high risk.
Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali
As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.
ProjectManager.com
JANUARY 15, 2025
Making sure that work is being done as planned and meeting deadlines is how projects stay on schedule. Job tracking software is designed to help. But what kind of features should users look for and which software products are best? We review the top ones, including pros, cons, price and more to help one make the right decision. What Is Job Tracking Software?
Rebel’s Guide to PM
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
Are you looking for the next step in your career? Project managers who want to move more into a strategic delivery role dont always have that many choices. Career paths tend to lean towards larger, more complex and more strategically important projects, or program management. Have you thought about moving into portfolio management? What does a portfolio manager do?
Scrum.org
JANUARY 14, 2025
Most organizations wait way too long to adopt some portfolio-level agility practices. Theyve been told, You cant scale whats broken, so they wait until they nail agile at the team and product group level. What if fixing whats broken REQUIRES focusing on the upstream thats shaping the work and context of these teams? Back in 2012 or so, I met an SVP responsible for a 1000-person delivery organization that was working in a traditional waterfall.
Planio
MARCH 3, 2025
Being a designer is hard. Balancing the desire to design something remarkable against a projects cost, time, and scope limitations requires equal doses of creativity, collaboration, and pure grit. Luckily, this is where a design brief can really help you out! Unlike other types of projects, such as software development or marketing campaigns , design projects often run into trouble when the stakeholders vision doesnt match the final deliverable.
Speaker: Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions
Is your manufacturing operation reaching its efficiency potential? A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) could be the game-changer, helping you reduce waste, cut costs, and lower your carbon footprint. Join Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions, in this value-packed webinar as he breaks down how MES can drive operational excellence and sustainability.
Green Project Management
JANUARY 27, 2025
We Build Against Nature. Its Costing Us. Our cities flood, our buildings consume vast amounts of energy, and our supply chains accelerate biodiversity loss. These crises arent inevitablethey are the result of design choices that ignore natures intelligence. The past few years have made it painfully clear that the way we build, produce, and consume […] The post Design as Nature: A Call for Regenerative Leadership appeared first on The GPM Blog.
NimbleWork
JANUARY 26, 2025
To thrive in the field of project management, it is important to stay informed about the latest trends, effective techniques, and industry best practices for ongoing professional development. One of the most effective ways to do this is by attending leading industry conferences. These events provide a unique opportunity to learn from experts, network with peers, and gain hands-on experience with new tools and techniques.
The IIL Blog
JANUARY 15, 2025
By Dr. Harold Kerzner January 15, 2025 What is meant by project management complexity or project complexity? Why is it important to know now? How will knowing this make my life (as a project professional) easier? Organizational projects are by nature far-reaching and complex. Understanding how corporate projects start and take shape, and recognizing different types of complexity can help you determine the appropriate methodology for the project.
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