Article By Bonnie Biafore "Fast-tracking" is often the most effective way to shorten the duration of a project. You fast-track a project by scheduling tasks that were o...

Article An invitation to write a proposal represents a gateway to potentially lucrative work. But the proposal process involves much more than writing a strong proposal...

Article By Lonnie Pacelli Are your project team members confused about who is responsible for what aspects of the job? Do their conversations and meetings usually end i...

Article By Michael W. McLaughlin Most consultants have at least one project horror story. You may call it the "death march," "the one that ended up in the ditch," or "t...

Article By Bonnie Biafore Why should you chronicle project history? One important reason is to avoid doing the same thing over and over, and expecting different results...

Article In most projects, certain tasks cannot begin unless another task has finished. This can be difficult to manage when the project is complex and contains tasks th...

Article By Larry Melillo Clients often embark on new consulting projects with the best of intentions. Over time, however, conflicting demands prevent clients from devot...

Article Project milestones are critical points that you monitor throughout the life cycle of a project. Milestones highlight important interim events, such as the compl...

Article Your project is running smoothly as you approach your deadline. Suddenly, an unforeseen complication appears: Your client wants you to change a feature at the l...

Article New consulting projects are typically launched with great fanfare and enthusiasm. But competing demands on your client's time often cause your project to move f...

Article By Jeffrey S. Barager, Point B Solutions Group As a project manager, you spend most of your time communicating. You deliver information upward and downward, int...

Article By Jane Suchan, PMP A project team is a group that works together to execute the tasks necessary to meet customer requirements. Before a project team meets for ...

Article By Laura Stack, MBA, CSP, The Productivity Pro® Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a "get out of a meeting free" card? Meetings can be very productive — or they c...

Article By Pcubed A well-written scope statement is crucial to a project manager's ability to make intelligent decisions during the life cycle of a project. As a projec...

Article By Lonnie Pacelli Your project is humming along, and things are getting done. Then suddenly, an unanticipated product design issue comes up. As the project mana...

Article by John Knutsen Director of Six Sigma MS Corp Strategy, Planning and Analysis What is Six Sigma? Six Sigma is a powerful approach to improving processes to do t...

Article Are you a project manager who works on international projects? What if you have team members in Germany, subcontractors in China, and a client in Japan? In a s...

Article By Jane Suchan, PMP Defining project success seems simple — deliver on time and on budget. But are those really the success factors that are most important to y...

Article By the Society of Design Administration Architectural projects involve many stakeholders and a large volume of documentation. Tight timelines and budgets are al...

Article A successful project team starts with the project manager. Before your team begins to work on a project, you must have a vision for whom your team members will ...

Article By Pcubed A Project Initiation Report (PIR) is the focal point of all information relating to the "who, what, when, where, why, and how" of the project. The PIR...

Article By Bonnie Biafore Unfortunately, people sometimes attempt to amass power by keeping information to themselves. In project management, however, the opposite appr...

Article You've been assigned to manage a major project that involves complex dependencies, multiple resources, and — naturally — a tight deadline. Where do you start? Y...

Article Whether you have only read about the benefits of Six Sigma or your organization has a Six Sigma initiative under way, you know that this specialized methodology...

Article As a project manager, you may need to integrate data from different programs into your Microsoft Office Project plans. For example, you may start out listing y...