One approach to organizing projects is to simply manage them within the existing functional organizational structure hierarchy of the organization. Once management decides to implement a project, the ...

One of the biggest management innovations to emerge in the past 30 years has been the matrix organizational structure. Matrix management is a hybrid organizational structure in which a horizontal ...

PRINCE2 is an established project management framework that is part of the Best Management Practice (BMP) portfolio of frameworks. The BMP family is formed by a large group of management and delivery ...

I love reading project management statistics. They are little snipes of information that can be used to start a conversation with your peers and easily engage. Here is a quick list of project ...

One way of illustrating the unique nature of project work is in terms of the project life cycle. Some project managers find it useful to use the project life cycle as the cornerstone for managing ...

Implementation of projects without a strong priority system linked to strategy creates problems. Three of the most obvious project portfolio management problems are discussed below. A project ...

Simply put, project management is the process and activity of planning, organizing, motivating, and controlling resources, procedures and protocols to achieve specific goals and objectives. In other ...

This is Chapter 4 of a much more comprehensive post Project Management Guide: Starting Out. Let’s get right in and discover how you can learn project management. This post will help you make up your ...

Chapter 9 of a much more comprehensive post Project Management Starting Out Guide. Let’s get right in and discover the areas where an aspiring project manager should focus. Developing the right skills ...

Chapter 6 of a much more comprehensive post Project Management Guide: Starting Out. I love this question, and I will make a series on it in the near future but until then lets focus on how how to ...

From what I have experienced so far, there is a lot of confusion related to what is a project and what is not a project. So I just feel that I should write down a few ideas to clarify it. So let’s ...

“There’s a S.M.A.R.T. way to write management’s goals and objectives” by George T. Doran was the first reference of the term in the November 1981 issue of Management Review. It focused on the ...