Why Agile Teams Are Self-Organizing, and Extensive Customer Involvement Is Required — Agile project management is a powerful technique for executing projects on time and within the given confines of a specific budget. Here’s an overview of a few of the most beneficial practices in agile project management and how you can implement them to get a successful project. Traditional and Agile approaches

Understand What Motivating Work Values Drive You to Become Personally Accountable — Work values are becoming more important in the workplace. Not only is it important to have a good understanding of your personal values but understanding what values are most important to your employees. This article discusses the importance of this and how to encourage the right work values in your…

Prevent a Potential Risk From Becoming a Real Crisis — With any business, you will face a lot of risks. The world is a volatile place and there is no way to avoid it. If you want to survive and thrive, you need to know how to manage these risks. You need to know how to handle them before they…

On Meetings, Expert Judgment, and Project Management Information Systems — One of the most frequent tasks for project managers is to build and facilitate a team. But going about it the wrong way can lead to long-term setbacks for the company. A study found that most companies believe their projects deliver suboptimal results due to ineffectual project management. A lot…

Why Changes Should Be Implemented Carefully, as They Can Often Be Disruptive — When we think about improving workplace performance, we generally think about increasing workers’ skills, motivation, or incentives. Changing task design — the way in which a job is designed and structured — is an often overlooked way to improve performance. An effective way to improve workplace performance is to focus…

The Basis for All Subsequent Alignment Processes — There’s a lot of confusion around what makes up a portfolio management framework. Most people think that the portfolio itself makes up the framework. However, the actual framework is built up from the components that the portfolio is built from. In other words, the components are the framework! This article…

How Successful People Achieve Their Goals by Persevering Through the Daily Challenges — Developing perseverance is extremely important because it allows you to achieve your goals, no matter how big or small. Once you develop this ability, you will find that you are more successful in all areas of your life. Here are some tips on how you can develop perseverance. Defining perseverance To develop…

From Defined and Linear to Empirical and Iterative — Agile Project Management is a popular way of managing projects in today’s fast-paced environment. While it offers a number of advantages over Waterfall Project Management, it isn’t always suitable for every project. Here’s a blog that weighs the benefits of Agile Project Management against its shortcomings. The evolution of Agile models A development model is…

How Accountability Shapes How Others See Us and How We See Ourselves — To be accountable is to exhibit personal responsibility for what we do, say, or how we act. This is an important skill to learn. It is essential as it shapes how others see us and how we see ourselves. Personal accountability A distinguishing characteristic is any quality that sets one member of…