Sustaining your team’s motivation over the course of a long, complex, or challenging project can be tough enough. When your group’s members are dispersed, it’s even more difficult to keep everyone from losing their passion for the project. Without traditional in-person interactions to give people a shot in the arm when things seem like a…
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Remote Project Management: 5 Keys to Maintaining Accountability
April 29, 2020 by
Accountability is a fundamental concept in project success but keeping your team accountable can become more challenging when part or all of the group remote. Along with leveraging healthy communication channels and focusing on strong engagement, PMs can also employ some targeted actions to maintain accountability. We’ve put together five key steps to ensure your…
Remote Project Management: Leadership Through Transition
April 8, 2020 by
During any transitionary period, project teams look to their leaders to guide them through the challenges. It’s up to PMs to ensure activities remain aligned with the master plan—even as that plan changes—and help team members navigate shifts in direction, timing, and scope. Providing strong leadership when some or all of the project group is…
The Interrupted Project: Maintain Your Momentum
April 3, 2020 by
Sometimes interruptions happen that disrupt the normal project flow. PMs can predict many of these situations and develop contingency plans for them, such as seasonal weather impacts and labor shortages during peak times. However, you may encounter interruptions that are created by your own company—a reorganization that puts a temporary halt on a project, for…
Remote Project Management: Team Engagement in a Digital World
April 1, 2020 by
More and more PMs are transitioning their activities to accommodate remote work arrangements, and many are finding that maintaining team engagement within the project is more important than ever. Though some organizations have been leveraging dispersed groups for quite some time, it’s a new experience for others. The lessons learned in existing remote work environments can…
Remote Project Management: Keep Your Communications Going
March 25, 2020 by
With COVID-19’s effects disrupting more organizations’ activities every day, some project teams are struggling to make the shift to working remotely. Maintaining strong connections internally as well as with stakeholders is critical for PMs to continue moving projects to a successful completion. No matter if you have one or two team members supporting your project…
Get Control of Your Project Punch Lists
March 6, 2020 by
Punch lists are an important part of the project execution process. Closing the loop on these final tasks helps to ensure that your stakeholders are satisfied with your initiative’s outcome. Completing punch list items is also key to delivering the full value everyone expects from the project. However, between the volume of activities occurring in…
5 Reasons Project Sponsors Go Dark
March 2, 2020 by
Your project sponsors are key to getting initiatives approved, planned, and executed. Without them your project may not receive enough funding to become a reality, and even if it did there’s a chance you’d encounter some show-stopping obstacles along the way. Fortunately, sponsors are usually eager to help get a project off the ground and…
Why Project Teams Work Without a Master Plan
February 6, 2020 by
Though some teams wouldn’t consider starting a project without a workable and realistic master plan, other groups routinely begin executing tasks before their overall strategy has been finalized and communicated. For PMs wondering why a project team would start work before having a high-level plan in place, the reasons can often be traced to a…
Manage Today’s Project Stakeholder Expectations
January 15, 2020 by
The pace of business today can be downright frantic at times. Given the scope of activities within a normal project and the number of people involved in even relatively small efforts, PMs often face additional challenges keeping up. Not only does their team have access to more technology tools than ever before, they also have…
