This is complete guide on leadership in project management. The cool thing about it? It’s full of practical tips. Why? It fully comes from my practical experience in managing software development projects for nine years. Here you’ll learn: What is leadership in project management … [Read more...]
Leadership In Project Management
Leadership in project management is a critical set of skills. Processes and tools do not work by themselves. Instead, people use and execute them. Therefore, a project manager must motivate people to use the best practices of project management.
Below you'll find articles that explain what leadership is, the best patterns of behavior, and techniques that will make you a better leader. Read more!
How to Introduce Yourself to a New Team (Examples and Scripts)
I want to give you a step by step guide on how to introduce yourself to a new project team. You’ll find three examples here: How to introduce yourself to a new team.How to introduce yourself as a manager and leader.How to introduce yourself in an email. Below are the three scripts that you … [Read more...]
Project Manager Roles and Responsibilities (Complete List)
Here's the truth: there's no standardized list of project manager roles and responsibilities. The primary role of the project manager is to organize and motivate people to do the work in a controlled way that will help to achieve the project's goal. Sometimes a project manager needs to select and … [Read more...]
How to be a Good Project Manager: 11 Practical Tips [from real projects]
I'm so glad to see you here because I want to discuss how to be a good project manager. Or how to become a better project manager. So I'll share some tips and my observation from my nine years of practical experience as a PM in the software industry. Okay, first of all, and it's one of … [Read more...]
Project Management At Google: My Key Takeaways
What does project management at Google look like? One thing for sure, different teams use different approaches and various tools. However, all managers use data-driven "Google Manager Behaviors." In 2002 Google got rid of all managers. They thought that engineers would work better if no one … [Read more...]
Put Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs to Good Use (+Examples)
Understanding the Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs will help you better understand how to motivate your project team. It's still one of the theories tested during the PMI PMP exam. Maslow's theory describes the pattern of how human motivation develops. Nowadays, the theory is represented as a … [Read more...]
Tips for New Project Manager (4 Best Lines of Behavior)
Today I have lots of tips for new project managers. I'll put them as four lines of behavior for a new PM. So, whether you joined a new team or it's your first-time project management job at all - these tips work really well for the first few months of your work. OK, I'll use simple … [Read more...]
How to Make Friends When You are the Project Manager
The higher you get on the career ladder, the colder and lonelier it becomes. You may be a talented leader. Nevertheless, you are in the role that prescribes management. People don’t like to be managed. Your job is to make people do what needs to be done. And it is always at the top of … [Read more...]
Untapped Powers of Micromanagement in Project Management
“It looks like a micromanagement to me,” Corwin said just as we left the room. “What’s the problem?” I asked. “Micromanagement is a bad technique, isn’t it?” Corwin was surprised. Micromanagement got a bad reputation. It is a tool of evil project managers! Only despotic leaders use … [Read more...]
Multinational Leadership: How to Successfully Lead Offshore Projects
What are the most relevant challenges of leadership in multinational leadership? Without forgetting the time difference, language barriers, different assumptions based on different cultures, I have experimented that using the right multinational leadership to manage resources is the most … [Read more...]
