project management

I have about ten years experience working as a project manager. Is it worthwhile for me to get my PMP certification or have I worked long enough that I don’t really need it?

I'm working as a business analyst, and would love to position myself for a job in our company's Project Management Office (PMO). What steps should I take?

Many project teams actually have individuals whose only responsibility is to personally communicate with every member of the team and collect status data. I don't think that could be considered real "visibility" in any project leader's book.

Want to motivate your project team? Forego the stick... and maybe the carrot too.

You know the importance of capacity planning and resource management, so why do all of your projects get derailed by ad-hoc requests? Maybe you just haven't learned the finer points of saying no.

Tips to help any project team learn from experience.

The earliest signs that a project is in trouble may be hard to measure, but they're easy to spot.

Although there might be a tendency to hide bad news and hope that things work themselves out over the course of a project, the fact is, problems don't just go away. Here are three things you can do to establish a culture of identifying, isolating, and dealing with problems before they become disasters.

From brainstorming apps to full-blown project managers, these inexpensive tools can help your team work together.

The greatest single challenge to successful adoption of project management best practice is a lack of voluntary team member participation in the process. Taking a more social approach to the project management process could be the answer.

When stakeholders become nothing more than noisemakers they can hurt morale, hinder performance, and ultimately put projects in jeopardy. Here are four suggestions for managing problem stakeholders.