Your Guide to Project Management Best Practices

Author: Daniel Linman

total project management (TPM)

PM Framework

Total Project Management Solutions for Project-Thinking Organizations

Total project management solutions (TPM solutions) will help a project-thinking organization to stabilize the business processes and begin leading employees towards achieving refined efficiency and accountability. In this article, I will briefly talk about what TPM concept means and will also outline a 5-step model for implementing total PM solutions. I guess my considerations will be helpful for management staff and executives in project-thinking organizations.

team planning tips

Teamwork & Leadership

Basic Tips on Project Team Planning

In this article we’ll give a series of project team planning tips presented in the form of a step-by-step checklist. Our tips will focus you only on the basic considerations regarding recruiting project staff members while the details of the team selection process won’t be highlighted in the article (the details of better team management and project resource management will be the matter of our next articles).

Essential Self-Management Skills for Employees to Be Productive at Workplace

Career & Lifestyle

Essential Self-Management Skills for Employees: How to Be Productive at Workplace

Developing self-management skills becomes one of the best management practices and activities of those people who have decided to become more productive employees. While companies tend to spend large amounts of both money and energy to provide their employees with special self-management skills training, each employee can personally organize self-assessment surveys to define whether he or she has the required skills. This effort is extremely important for workers oriented on aggressive career development. Without the personal effort for developing self-organization and self-management skills, it’s hard to imagine a productive employee succeeding in career promotion and professional advancement. This article is designed to help you answer the question “What are self management skills?” and how to be a productive employee.

forming business partnership

Business & Finance

Forming a Business Partnership in a 3-Step Plan

Take your time to think about the opportunities of partnering with others. Perhaps, your small company requires a winning business partnership, so be ready to analyze the current market situation and consider developing a business partnership plan. In this article we’ll talk about the definition of business partnership and review the key steps for developing a template of partnership plan.

small business mistakes

Business & Finance

Top Ten Small Business Mistakes

In context of the best management practices, examining the most frequent small business mistakes is one of the prioritized activities an entrepreneur needs to undertake when planning for a small business start-up. People who tried to start a business but failed can tell you about a lot of reasons for small business failures. Those people can explain why their business initiatives have failed. And if you decide to start your own business, your role will be to learn their experience, investigate the most frequent mistakes, and then try your best to avoid those mistakes and errors. In this article we’ll talk about the top ten small business mistakes that many individuals make when planning for business startup. I hope this short post will help you better understand the “bad” steps of business planning, so your small company will never be one of those outsiders.