Identifying & Managing Toxic Workplace Behaviors
Planning a new project and getting organized for kickoff and beyond is a big undertaking for a project manager. It is where a majority of the work takes place, with the goal of getting...
Anne Meick
Create Useful Project Status Reports: A Comprehensive Guide
An important and required responsibility connected to running a successful project is writing and delivering useful and comprehensive project status reports. Everyone, including project team members, stakeholders, management and CIO or CEO-level sponsors will...
How to Write a Project Report
In addition to assigning tasks and hosting meetings, project managers are often tasked with producing various project reports. These high-level overviews and summaries of critical data are delivered to project stakeholders and leadership to...
8 Easy Tips to Effectively Take Meeting Minutes
Meetings are a fundamental requirement in business, and every project has many types of meetings. From discovery and planning, to execution and delivery, meetings are essential for ideating and communicating with a team throughout...
What Are Lessons Learned in Project Management?
The lessons learned review held as part of a project close is an important and valuable experience for all project members. No matter the size or subject of the effort, there are always things...
Creative Projects vs Technical Projects: What They Are, and How to Run Them
Project managers generally encounter three types of projects: creative, technical, or a hybrid of the two. Each of these are very different efforts to manage and require separate teams to conceptualize and build either...
Difference Between Scrum Master & Project Manager
There are times when a traditional project manager is required to work with a Scrum Master. This may be in a mid- to large-size company where there is a separate agile team, or when...
PMO Roles & Responsibilities
The experience for a project manager varies between companies, industries, and which project management methodology is used. Some companies have an entire department, a Project Management Office (PMO), dedicated to organizing and standardizing the...
Establishing Meeting Cadence for Remote Project Teams
Setting a meeting cadence for projects is a practice that allows a project manager to create a routine, and get their team in the habit of meeting regularly to move a project along. The...
How to Read the Room As a Project Manager
The art of “reading the room” is a technique most professionals don’t know about or understand how to do. Almost anyone can learn how to read a room to help navigate business scenarios. It...
