Month: September 2022

This post is designed to help Project Managers define realistically the boundaries between Project Management and Change Management (CM). I will walk you through the differences and show you what can be taken from the CM discipline to help your projects. How can we make the grey areas between project management and change management more…

Shashwati, a project manager by trade, is joined Galen Low. She has been working in the IT Industry since she completed her Masters in Statistics. She has extensive experience in Quality, Release, and Project Management. Listen to this to learn how to talk to others about risk. Interview Highlights Shashwati has a Masters’s degree in…

Your customers raised a problem with the top management without any clear reason. They will cancel the project and revoke a contract. Your boss has called an emergency meeting. What should a project manager do in this situation? [iStock/Nastco]I once faced a project management crisis due to client dissatisfaction. It accumulated for almost a year.…

The world has changed. Why is this happening? Smartsheet transforms your work. The beginning of a project is the calm before the storm, or a mad rush to get everything sorted in time for the core work to begin. No matter how it happens, the beginning of a project is crucial to its success. There…

The world has changed. Why is this happening? Smartsheet transforms your work. Every project starts somewhere. How you start them can have a major impact on how the rest of the project and client relationship will go. A client project kickoff meeting should be conducted well to ensure success. If you do it wrong, you…

Pinterest has been a hugely popular social media platform since its inception in 2010. It allows users to organize visual tips and ideas for improving their professional and personal lives. This includes planning, budgeting, designing, and managing. Pinterest is not only a source of inspiration and tips for everyday life, but it is also a…

[Spoilers below, obviously] Every project manager has seen an operation that seemed to put the fate of the entire world in jeopardy. As important as the company’s summer update seemed at the time, think about how the Covenant’s condemned crew felt in Alien: Covenant. This is the latest installment in Ridley Scott’s Alien saga. Not…

Let’s be honest: there is no single, correct, or “only” way to measure the collaboration of your team. Many have tried, some even published papers on this topic, but they also included a disclaimer that stated that “This isn’t a recommendation to use any particular tool but a selection that may be useful in thinking…

Since Spacewar! MIT in 1962. It teaches players about resource management and risk vs. rewards through rocket fuel, proton bomboes and hyperspace jumps. In secret, video games are used to train future project managers. Except for Superman 64. The game offered no entertainment to the rest of the world. You’ll start to notice project management…

Imagine yourself in this scenario: You spend thousands of dollars and months of research on your shiny new project management software. It’s then abandoned by everyone when it finally works. Frustrating, right? Poor tool adoption is a frustrating problem. People approach new software adoption with optimism, skepticism and cynicism. This is not surprising, since change…