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At what age do kids learn to run projects in Finland?
Case Study: Finland and its teaching method known as Phenomenon-based Learning (PhenoBL). This method involves a collaborative and empirical work between students and teachers through an action that can be considered a step of applied innovation in the field of education, the management of interdisciplinary projects.
Software Resilience
When evaluating different tools, soft virtues such as the ability to adapt to different situations are often overlooked.
How to calculate the cost of your projects with man hours
Calculating man hours is the basis for being able to measure the cost per project of each type of expert and his contribution to the result.
How to cope with resistance to change in your organization
Making organizational changes in any process, work methodology or project management system is, in itself, a very difficult project to manage. When it comes to internal management, the cost of a failed project is very high, so the margin of error is small.
9 barriers to knowledge transfer in project-based organizations
Within each project, reaching a knowledge baseline explicitly shared by all key team members can be tricky. In this article, we take a look at the 9 obstacles to knowledge transfer between projects.
Another 6 project management skills that no one talks about (as much as they deserve)
Even in a specialized world like project management, there are current trends and popular kids (often newcomers), while other issues, skills and areas are relegated to a second row or altogether ignored...
Collaboration generates project value
Imagine that you could quantify the value that collaboration contributes to your projects. Discover how to optimize your project collaboration.
Guide to organize your project portfolio with scenarios
Whenever you have a hard time deciding which projects you should run, you can base your decision on the evaluation of different scenarios...
Turn your PMO into a resource pool
There are several types of PMOs and its direction can have two different reaches. The most ambitious, is where the PMO extends to all projects of an organization.
However, it can also be more targeted, and focus only on traversal projects involving several departments, leaving more routine or restricted projects in the hands of a specific project manager.
PM in Practice 3. Las Vegas: Turning the desert into a garden
Case study: The city's larger companies are integrated into the water-saving program thus initiated project management to make turning the desert into a garden in Las Vegas
How to fuel your projects: the PMO as a control tower
The control PMO, however, not only makes decisions to guide projects. If the “weather station” measures, the control tower defines procedures and standards. It then monitors its compliance and seeks improvements.
Why you’re missing the opportunity to partner with strong IT vendors… and you probably didn’t know it
Many small-to-medium consultancy firms with great talent offering highly specialized consultancy services in project management are not stocking up in a solid and diversified portfolio of project management solutions...