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What does risk management look like on your projects?

Some companies have robust, established risk management procedures. Others almost entirely ignore the idea of risk and hope for the best.

Mostly ignoring risk is an understandable choice in some scenarios: if the project is a low priority, if c...

This blog was inspired by this post on Reddit, and is an expansion on the comment I wrote in response.

How clearly do you understand the status of each of your projects?

The real status—not just the status your software is telling you.

There are plenty of robust project management software progra...

“Organizational process assets” and “enterprise environmental factors” are terms you might come across in project management circles or resources, or while studying for your PMP.

These are fancy terms for fairly straightforward concepts. Let’s break down what they mean and look at how these assets ...

This blog was inspired by this post on Reddit, and is an expansion on the comment I wrote in response.

So you’re a project manager. Do you also think of yourself as an educator?

In my nearly 8 years as a project manager, I’ve had mounting experiences that show me I will be a more effective projec...

The critical path method is a way of creating and interacting with your project’s schedule. It works on waterfall projects (projects where tasks and timelines are planned in detail at the beginning of the project), or waterfall portions of hybrid projects (projects that are a mix of waterfall and ag...

This blog was inspired by this post on Reddit, and is an expansion on the comment I wrote in response.

What’s a “normal” number of projects for one project manager to lead or support at a time?

Usually I don’t find the word “normal” very helpful, but it’s a natural question to ask if the number of...

A RACI chart, or RACI matrix, is a tool used in project management to track the people involved or invested in your project (your "stakeholders"), and particularly what is expected of each person and when they need information. It’s a term you’ll likely come across while studying for your PMP or ano...

This blog was inspired by this post on Reddit, and is an expansion on the comment I wrote in response.

This month, my company—accustomed to projects with a waterfall or hybrid methodology—started running its first intentionally agile projects. I've been delighted to watch a project manager on my te...

A few years ago, the project management team at my company worked hard to develop standardized project documents. We outlined our best project charter, project plan, and project closure templates, and got input from key stakeholders and users at our company. We were proud of them, and we rolled them...

I was talking to a peer mentor the other day, and she was giving me some great food for thought on simple ways to add data to project reports. As I complimented her approaches, she told me that out of all the parts of her job, manipulating project data comes easily to her—but project team member per...