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A Business Case in Project Management: Why Start a Project?
Whatever great idea is behind a project, it won’t be implemented without stakeholders’ buy-in and investment. To get their support and approval, they need to understand what value an initiative will bring to their...
Top 7 Reasons for Project Failure in a Multi-Project Environment
Project failures don’t happen out of the blue — they’re always the result of improper management actions. In a complex multi-project environment with limited resources, the price for improper management is higher compared to...
A Guide to Project Integration Management
Every project management activity doesn’t exist in isolation – they are all related to and dependent on each other, may have competing requirements and/or shared resources. And if there are multiple projects in the...
Assessing Change Management Effectiveness: Essential Metrics
“If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it” Peter Drucker, management author No matter what change initiatives are, they must bring tangible results. It may seem the outcomes of effective change management are...
7 Essential Questions About a Project Management Office (PMO)
As companies develop and grow, and the number of projects they deliver increases, business leaders are seeking ways to ensure more efficient coordination of all their initiatives. For this purpose, a great number of...
Why Do You Need a Resource Management Solution to Boost Employee Productivity?
Increasing employee productivity is a hot topic in every business environment today. Under conditions of high competitiveness, companies are looking for ways to encourage their people to deliver more. In a complex multi-project environment...
To Start or Not to Start: Overview of a Feasibility Study in Project Management
Sometimes, it’s rather difficult to predict whether a company will be capable of delivering a certain product or service, whether it’s reasonable to invest in this project, and how it will affect the current...
Becoming a Data-Driven Organization: What You Need to Know
“Without data, you’re just another person with an opinion”, W. Edwards Deming Data and technologies have become the drivers of innovations and competitiveness in today’s constantly changing business environment. During the recent decade, companies...
Project Cost Estimation: Overview of the Process, Main Challenges, and Recommendations
Estimation of project cost is one of the core practices of the project initiation stage, which becomes the basis for the approved project budget. However, the main challenge of this process is that it...