Your Guide to Project Management Best Practices

Author: Daniel Linman

buying pm software

IT & Software

6 Steps to Buying Right PM Software for Your Organization

Buying right PM (the acronym for “project management“) software for your organization can be challenging and even frustrating as there are hundreds of options, and you have to take a long journey to explore those options in order to find the perfect solution that best fits the needs of your company’s project management environment. But before you give up and stop your search, take a look at the following below 6 steps that will help you find, evaluate and buy right PM software for your business.

Project Manager’s Top 10 Skills to Be an Effective Leader

Teamwork & Leadership

Project Manager’s Top 10 Skills to Be an Effective Leader

A good project manager always knows for sure how to be effective in managing teams. That person has a certain set of skills and talents that make him/her an effective project leader. But what are those leadership qualities? How to be good at project leadership? Below I give a list of the top 10 skills that every project manager must possess and develop in order to be an effective leader. The skills are listed in rank order, according to their importance.

Main Responsibilities and Skills of a Project Manager in Construction

PM Tips & Ideas

Main Responsibilities and Skills of a Project Manager in Construction

A construction project manager is a professional typically hired by an owner or client of a construction business to oversee the management, coordination, and execution of the activities and personnel in a construction area. This person is the main point of contact for all parties involved and ensures the project is delivered on time, within or below budget, and to the owner’s satisfaction.

How to optimize ERP implementations

IT & Software

Optimizing an ERP Implementation Project in 5 Steps

Why about 60% of ERP implementations are failed or not completed? What are the reasons? In this article we’ll try to answer these questions. We’ll talk about how you can reach success in optimizing your ERP implementation project in 5 steps. The purpose of this publication is to help businesses understand what deadly sins to avoid and what best practices to follow when implementing an ERP system.

ERP selection

Templates

A Checklist for Selecting ERP Software

In the following ERP Software Selection Checklist I write about several major steps that will help your organization choose and introduce an ERP solution that meets the business requirements. The steps include a range of tips and suggestions intended to make the checklist more understandable and usable. You can utilize this document as general guidelines for choosing ERP software for your specific corporate environment.