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Project Scheduling A project schedule guides the execution phase. It keeps team members productive, resources balanced and expenses in order. It organises a projects tasks and activities, estimates their durations, identifies their dependencies, sets overall milestones and places all that information on a timeline. It also defines the resources needed to complete these tasks. All the work necessary to complete the Continue Reading

Work Management Work management helps managers improve how they balance workloads, communicate goals and track progress. Overlooking the importance of work management is a common managerial mistake. Project management spends a lot of time on the work that must happen before any project can be executed. Researching the feasibility of the project, planning for its success, scheduling tasks, organizing resources and Continue Reading

Project Management and Cyber Security Protection of services seems to be the way of the future, and as a project manager how do you deliver a Cyber Security related project successfully? The answer no different to any other project, the process is the same, planning doesn’t change and stakeholder management should be paramount. Although Cyber Security is everybody’s business, it Continue Reading

Portfolio Management Project portfolio management lets managers leverage and optimize investments and initiatives across multiple projects to better achieve the overall goals and objectives of an organization. Finding synergies within a portfolio and acting upon them can seem daunting at first. Project portfolio management requires a balance of time, skill, budgeting and risk mitigation, but when pulled off successfully, can Continue Reading

Workplace Productivity and Project Management Increasing productivity in the workplace greatly improves chances of delivering a project on time and within budget. Therefore, understanding all about workplace productivity is key to success. There are benefits to increasing a team’s productivity which can be measured. By establishing a benchmark setting and with the use of specialized tools, all assist in bringing Continue Reading

Project Management Milestones A project milestone is a point that has important significance in relation to delivery of a particular aspect of the project or financial payment. This is delineated in a point in the project schedule so it is evident to the project team, stakeholders and management. These points can note the start and finish of a project, and mark Continue Reading