Project Management Blog

Here you will find tips and tricks on project management, in-depth articles on the best approaches, leadership, and agile frameworks.

How To Create A Simple Project Plan (Project Planning Process)

Let me put this straight: Project planning is a challenging and complex activity. You need to apply knowledge and skills from all aspects of project management. You operate with an enormous amount of information. And let’s be truthful: You’ll race against the clock. Nevertheless, project … [Read more...]

Issue #2: New Time Management for a Project Manager

Project Management Weekly Reading List #2 is here. If you pick just one thing from the list - take the first one. It's time changing! 1. New Aspects of Time Management We all know about larks and owls. Someone performs better in the morning. Some of us do their best later in the … [Read more...]

Issue #1: Starting a New Year Like a Project Manager

The first official weekly reading list on Project Management Basics. Hooray! In January, a lot of things change. Want it or not - you do evaluate your past year, your achievements. Hopefully, you make decisions and act upon that evaluation. So, below you will find topics and ideas worth … [Read more...]

My 4 Lessons Learned in Project Management in 2018

How to grow professionally as a project manager? You collect lessons learned. Then, you act upon them to make the next project better. To boost the process, every project manager in the company should share lessons learned with others. It multiplies the benefits. In this article, I’m … [Read more...]

Do You Know These 6 Practical Risk Identification Techniques?

How to perform risk identification? What risk identification techniques to use? Which ones are efficient? And in general: How to discover problems that you’re unaware of? Check the topic on PMBOK® Guide: It says nothing about the practical application of risk identification … [Read more...]

How to Find Relevant Experience of a Project Manager

So, you noticed that you need one or two years of relevant experience of a project manager. For an entry-level role of a project manager! I get it. It’s frustrating. You want to get your first job as a PM. But they want you to that much some experience. In this article, I'll share … [Read more...]

How to Collect Stakeholder Requirements (Real-life Example)

It’s always interesting to compare how other PMs manage projects, isn’t it? So, let’s see how we collected stakeholder requirements on a real project. It’s a software project. Rather big for a fast-paced project life cycles that we have. Interesting to notice that our clients were from a … [Read more...]

Issue #0: Productivity 101 (for Project Managers)

It goes without saying that a Project Manager has to be productive. Otherwise, you don't do the important stuff and the project will start to lag behind. My really deep dive into the productivity started when I was leading a group of seven small projects. It is a long journey that started … [Read more...]

Project Management Basics That Will Make You a Better PM

Understanding project management basics is crucial for project success. Why? These basics provide the framework for the correct approach to project management. Here I’m not talking about PM methodologies. It’s about mindset or a very high-level approach. So, what makes management of … [Read more...]

Risk Management Examples: 9 Behind the Scenes Stories

It is hard to imagine what you can do with a project risk. Yes. Avoid, mitigate, transfer and so on. But what does it mean? What specific actions can you take to avoid something? What can you, as a project manager, do to mitigate a risk? Adding some risk reserves and removing … [Read more...]