Category: Project Management

Project management must be treated quite differently from an enterprise-level organization when you are a startup. Startups need to be agile and pivot at a moment’s notice. Where more mature organizations may be able to plan months or even years in advance and have the funding locked in to handle marketing budgets, sales cycles, and…

While managing project managers is similar to managing anyone else, a few extra considerations need to be top of mind. For example, you need to ensure every manager is aligned with the organization’s goals. They’ll also need feedback to help them tweak their approach here and there to be the most effective team leader possible.…

There are always high expectations when it comes to sales, and teams can be competitive both internally and externally. However, treating sales goals as projects can help teams figure out how to best focus their energy to help deliver results for the company as a whole. While sales goals aren’t traditionally “projects” per se, they…

Project managers don’t just manage a project. Beyond accounting for budget and time while ensuring tasks and milestones are complete, they also have to manage people from multiple angles and manage each individual’s expectations so that everyone is on-side and moving in one direction at the same time. It’s not an easy task! Managers can…

Project managers spend a lot of their valuable time managing people to ensure tasks and milestones go to plan. However, they can make their jobs easier by integrating data into their management approach. Using analytics can improve outcomes and assist in tweaking aspects to improve overall efficiencies from project to project. Using BI (business intelligence)…

To have successful projects, you need to build a productive and knowledgeable team, especially when you are a manager in charge of data science. Data scientists need to interpret patterns, offer predictions, and draw conclusions from the given data sets. They can help steer a company in a specific direction and help advise on where…

Finance teams need to stay on top of projects to ensure they don’t go over budget, and for that reason, they often become integral stakeholders during projects that might not fall under their purview. Everything from HR (in terms of hiring budgets) to R&D (what upgrades to an existing product can be funded quarterly and…

Even the HR department needs a strategy to meet the organization’s larger goals. That’s why it’s crucial for HR managers to understand project management best practices. A good HR project manager will have ongoing projects that will ultimately play a foundational role in how a company’s workforce will transform to meet the needs of the…