Project management

Steps you can take now to prepare for the future.

Everyone agrees that managing change is tough, but few can agree on how to do it. Most experts are obsessed with "soft" issues, such as culture and motivation,...

The critical path method (CPM), one of a variety of quantitative tools for business decision-making, is a simple technique for analyzing, planning, and...

Planning, build-up, implementation, and closeout.

Six lessons on moving quickly under pressure.

Over the past 25 to 30 years, agile innovation methods have greatly increased success rates in software development, improved quality and speed to market,...

In a premortem, team members assume that the project they are planning has just failed--as so many do--and then generate plausible reasons for its demise....

Ask yourself these four questions to find out.

This technique, adopted from agile, can help sales teams achieve long-term strategy shifts, while still driving results.

by Melissa Raffoni Strategic planning gets all the cachet and all the ink, but the most creative, visionary strategic planning is useless if it isn’t translated into action. Especially now, in a sluggish economy, execution takes on greater importance. It’s what separates the companies that prosper in hard times from the ones that go under. […]

It can still be a positive experience for everyone.

We default to what's familiar-at the cost of creativity and innovation.

Adjust your leadership style to match what your team needs in order for them to succeed.

When a project ends, do this reflection exercise with your team to capture what you've learned. You'll help your organization optimize peak moments and...

Trusting others may take practice. Understand the mindset it takes to work well with your collaborators. In partnership with BigThink Edge.

All supporting functions have to take on the mindset.

Unmanaged scope creep can derail any project.

"Despite its sudden elevation in corporate life, purpose remains a confusing topic," the authors write. A primary cause of this confusion, they say, is...

Set goals that inspire action and help drive innovation.

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