How to take your project management strategy to the next level
The first step to having a high-level project management strategy is adopting the right methodology that suits a particular project or business.
DEDeutschThe first step to having a high-level project management strategy is adopting the right methodology that suits a particular project or business.
It’s that time of the year where I feel like having a bit of fun. So instead of the usual explainer articles with numbers and graphs, I am going to try to explain project managers using their sun signs. Whether you swear by your astrological signs or think that they are a bunch of hogwash, you cannot deny that astrology and sun signs columns are …
For years, Excel has been a preferred tool for project managers and teams across every industry. Using excel at work is a prudent move, it gives businesses the tool they need to drive more efficiency and productivity in their day-to-day work process. However, as technology continues to evolve, industries and businesses must reshape every aspect in order to keep a competitive edge. This is the …
Isn’t it lovely to hear work-life balance examples such as that of Tamara Budz, the founder of Silver Shade Group? Her idea of maintaining an equilibrium between work and life is ensuring that she eats with her family. Or take, for instance, the founder of ReputationManagement.com, Bill Fish. He strictly divides his work and family time. Bill doesn’t cross the divide until his kids head …
The context of productivity has gone through a world of change in the last decade. Companies were following the traditional manufacturing through the process of measuring resource output against hours. That’s the productivity formula anyway. Today productivity means a lot more than just more done output per resource. Productivity has evolved into a more holistic concept with a focus on collaboration, process innovation, and business outcomes.
Project Portfolio Management (PPM) is a process which is engaged by Project Management Organizations (PMOs) to study the potential outcomes (return) while doing a project. Project Portfolio Manager goes through all the areas of data regarding the project and provides detailed business analysis for companies planning to invest in projects.
Looking for project management inspiration? You don’t need to go too far to find it. The greatest project manager is the one who raised you and your siblings, stood rock steady beside your father, made the house a home, and did all this while building a successful career. MOM! In this blog, I try to draw the parallel between motherhood and project management. Here is …
Career progression is one of the most important drivers of employee retention. 52% of millennials say opportunities for career progression is the most desirable quality in a workplace, competitive wages and financial incentives (44%), good training and development programs (35%) (PWC). There is a lot of ambiguity when it comes to career progression in organizations.
As a project management software company, we spend many hours drawing inspiration from everyday life to make Celoxis better. For this blog we thought of flipping the story; let’s look at ways in which we draw inspiration from project management in real life.
The Project Management discipline has been going through a wave of disruption over the last decade. The globalization of business prompted the collaboration narrative, the rise of cloud tech disrupted traditional PM technology with the onset of SaaS-based project management software. Social project management has made its way into project management systems and simplified the user experience and improved adoption. The digital transformation push in enterprises is going to lead project management to the next level of evolution. While the holistic picture looks rosy, there are some worrying patterns:
What makes a perfect project? Ask any project manager and they will all have conflicting answers. Some may quote cost effectiveness, others may say delivery before the deadline and some may say planning. But do we really have a scale to measure how perfect a project is?
roject management tools obviously have a central role to play in addressing most of these challenges. Today project managers rely on PM tools for planning, task management, resource management, budget management, collaboration and analysis & reporting. It is therefore important to understand what project management software buyers are looking for. Our good friends at Software Advice helped us out with their latest report IT Project Management Tools – Buyer Report 2016. Here are key insights from their report.
The platform
Portfolio dashboards, capacity planning and project financials in one place — with the governance trail your finance team asks for.