ABOUT TO START A NEW PROJECT? HERE’S WHERE YOU SHOULD START Throughout your life, you will face many tasks which would require certain plans to succeed and achieve any goals you set. Those tasks would most likely involve starting a project. From a business project to an academic project, it Read more
Many people, including experienced project managers, have never used (or even seen!) a Gantt chart for tracking project progress, despite it being one of the most useful and intuitive tools for the job. Gantt charts are ancient compared to modern project management techniques, being invented over 100 years ago, but Read more
Managing a project has many challenges; there are goals to achieve and deadlines to meet. Generally, several people work at the same time, and not always share a space. Information and documents must be shared, so constant communication is needed. When meetings, e-mail strings and spreadsheets are no longer useful, Read more
Project management has a lot of moving parts. You’ve got to set objectives and deadlines, manage people and track their progress, not to mention dealing with unexpected hurdles and challenges. Unless you have a solid plan on how to run your project, you’ll soon find that nobody in the team Read more
Project management software helps your team improve their effectiveness. This software is used to track the implementation, progress, and completion of a project or series of projects, and it becomes a great medium to share knowledge by encouraging and facilitating proper documentation throughout the organization. As the adage says, different Read more
As a project manager, how do you delegate project tasks? How do you remind your team who is responsible for what? How do you ensure your project stays on course and is completed on time? Maybe you’re a wizard when it comes to communication, staying on top of other people’s Read more
When project management comes to mind, a lot of people simply consider it as a method to starting and completing a project. While this may be true, project management usually encompasses much more. We often see big companies take on new projects, announce an expected time frame, and more often Read more
Project management methodologies are the tools that allow project managers to guide their team members through a project from initiation to completion effectively and efficiently. They are designed to maximize the use of resources and time. While there are numerous project management strategies and methodologies out there, all of them Read more
Project Managers have to deal, not only with time, resources and budget, but also with people. Most projects have a team assigned to them, and being able to keep everybody on board is one of the biggest challenges of PM. We’ll take a look at 3 main skills that will Read more
Hay muchos tipos de proyectos: simples, complejos, grandes o pequeños, y muchos de ellos siguen la misma lógica. Mira estos 9 pasos y aprende cómo administrar (casi) cualquier proyecto. ¿Cómo administrar un proyecto? Profundicemos en cada uno de estos pasos: 1. DEFINE LOS OBJETIVOS PARA TU PROYECTO Cada proyecto necesita Read more