Long projects offer a unique set of challenges for your PMO team—deadlines are months or even years away, significant milestones are often few and far between, and the initial rush of “new project” enthusiasm eventually subsides. How do you maintain your group’s morale, encourage long-term innovation, and keep all eyes firmly on the project’s goals?
Category ‘Checklists’
6 Tips to Tame the E-mail Monster
Are you spending too much time on e-mail? If so, use these tips to turn the tables and make e-mail work for you.
5 Ways to Defend Your Project Budget
Project budgets are regularly in the financial crosshairs. While careful budgeting is a priority for every project management professional, there will be times when others in your organization want you to cut costs beyond what you think is reasonable. If you find your budget is under serious fire, use these tips to defend your resources and protect the success of your project.
10 Tips to Improve Your Next Project Management Presentation
Presentations are powerful tools for relaying information, persuading key stakeholders, and displaying your team’s successes. Below are some tips to help make your next presentation a crowd pleaser.
1 – Avoid visual overload. Save the flashy animations for areas of your presentation that need additional emphasis. For everything else, stick to smooth, subtle transitions.
5 Tips to Neutralize Personality Conflicts within Your Team
Project management professionals are generally organized, skilled, and highly driven. Any time you have several of these strong personality types working together on a team, you’re bound to discover some tension. How do you keep these self-motivated people working toward the same objectives without letting their personalities hinder progress?
