Your Guide to Project Management Best Practices

Author: Daniel Linman

business process improvement

Business & Finance

Business Process Improvement – A Four-Step Model

Business process improvement is critical to a growing organization that needs to continuously analyze and refine its business processes and ensure the effectiveness and efficiency of business management activities. When the processes are well tuned and adjusted to current needs of the organization, the probability of success gets higher, and the organization is about to earn more competitive advantages in the marketplace. Business process improvement is one of the prioritized management activities to create a foundation for continuous development of the organization

How to improve team performance

Teamwork & Leadership

Tips on Improving Team Performance

Team skills improvement is one of the most challenging management activities to make a team environment more productive and enhance team performance through motivation, training, rewarding, etc. Through improving team cohesion and skills, managers and team leaders can build a better rapport with team members and increase their performance. In this article we will talk about four basic tips on improving team skills and enhancing team performance. We’ll talk about team skills classification that determines two categories of team skills.

hr mamagement challenges

How-to Guides

How to Handle Challenges of Project HR Management

Employees or human resources within projects are the most valued asset of any organization. Effective project human resource management (project HR management) makes it easier for that organization to gain more benefits and profits from using human resources. Project human resource management requires an integrated approach for handling employee management challenges by minimizing redundancy, reducing time waste and avoiding inefficient team communications. Managers should create the working environment in which employees are able to maximize their performance and show their best talents and skills. To handle challenges of project human resource planning and management, there are several ways or techniques, such as 1) Focusing employees, 2) Setting clear direction and 3) Establishing effective communications. Let’s view these techniques for managing project human resources in detail.

managing project resources

PM Tips & Ideas

Project Resource Management Software – The Meaning and Benefits

Managing project resources is one of the critical management activities aimed at finding the balanced allocation and levelling of available project resources and optimizing resource utilization and consumption. The project resource management process focuses on planning, scheduling and allocating resources required for initiating and executing a project and its phases. Usually this process is successfully implemented with help of project resource management software which allows using spreadsheets, estimates, templates, to-do lists and reports to plan and utilize project resources.
What is Project Resource Management Software?

It is a computer program to simplify planning and using of resources by providing tools for achieving the balance between project resource requirements, schedules, availability, and optimization opportunities. Project resource management tools allow managing what, where and when a resource should be available and utilized to achieve the optimum project outcome.

prior to project initiation

PM Framework

Project Pre-Charter as a Sub-Phase of the Initiation Phase

The project initiation phase is the first phase within the project lifecycle to approve a project’s idea and make a foundation for planning the project. Usually this phase includes Project Pre-Charter which is a sub phase an organization goes through to decide whether to launch the project, what reasons for project initiation are and what form the project should take. The project pre-charter sub-phase is a step to be taken before the development of project charter. The project initiation phase consists of the pre-charter sub-phase and the charter phase. In this article, I will talk about the first sub-phase and my focus will be on the project pre-charter definition and tasks.