Leading a project team requires strong project management skills, but project managers have responsibilities beyond planning and executing initiatives. Not only are they expected to orchestrate and monitor the full scope of a project’s activities, they also have critical leadership responsibilities vying for their time. Understanding all the roles a project manager needs to fulfill…
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What Can Your Project Budget Teach You
October 18, 2021 by
If your team is like most, you maintain a view into how your project budget forecasts stack up against actual expenditures. You also probably monitor spend to ensure you stay within your approved budget limits. But is that all you’re doing? If so, you’re missing out on important insights that could help you be more efficient,…
6 Reasons You Aren’t Solving Scope Creep
October 8, 2021 by
Scope creep—where your project’s parameters balloon outside the approved limits—is an ongoing challenge for teams. Between managing the usual trouble spots and juggling other efforts that are vying for attention, it’s often difficult enough to keep project activities aligned with the original schedule. When a project’s list of deliverables becomes a moving target, it multiplies…
Is Your Project Approval Process Outdated?
October 1, 2021 by
The pace of change happening within the business landscape today means that long-standing project approval processes now have the potential to be minefields of gaps, conflicts, and miscalculations. Everything from supply chain disruptions to technology innovations to new work arrangements have changed the way projects are executed, and these factors—along with many others—have diminished the…
Strategies to Fix Poor Project Quality
September 17, 2021 by
Maintaining acceptable quality across all the activities in a project—particularly when an initiative is complex, high visibility, or has a long duration—can be difficult. There are all sorts of reasons teams might see their project quality drop, and leaders need to be ready to quickly take action so they can keep initiatives headed toward a…
