Your Guide to Project Management Best Practices

Author: Jack Grabovski

Create a meeting agenda

PM Tips & Ideas

Creating a Meeting Agenda

A good agenda helps improve the effectiveness and the efficiency of any meeting; however it is frequently one of the most overlooked parts in the event planning process. Creating a meeting agenda can be compared to passing an examination when you need to complete all the tests in order to get the highest grades. In case one or more items are not completed you get lower grades; the same way, if you fail to include all necessary items in your agenda template the meeting is likely to be held ineffectively, with no expected results achieved.

Faclitation in managing projects

Teamwork & Leadership

Project Facilitation – Definition, Role and Skills

I can hardly image effective project management (PM) without good facilitation. As my experience proves, project performance considerably depends on how the team is facilitated to make decisions, solve problems and respond to risks and changes. PM facilitation provides a teamwork improvement mechanism that constitutes attitudes, performance, abilities, cultural patterns and results of the team.

Ensuring project manager's accountability

How-to Guides

How to Ensure a Project Manager’s Accountability

Accountability makes projects successful. Accountability ensures that the 80/20 of a project manager’s effort will be put on expectations, milestones and performance which are success drivers. When the manager is accountable for his/her decisions and actions, the project is likely to be delivered according to the expectations of the executive staff… In this article, let’s talk more about how to ensure the project manager’s accountability.

Tips on managing content marketing project

Marketing & SEO

4 Rules that Make Your Content Marketing Project Effective

Good web content marketing attracts target traffic and thus generates more leads. Google and other search engines “like” websites that contain regularly updated quality content. But sadly, many webmasters and website owners today do not realize that relevant content is one of the most critical success factors… In this article, I’m going to give you some advice regarding web content marketing and promotion. Here I describe 4 basic rules that can help you plan and implement your content marketing projects.

rules to implement PMBOK Guide ideas

PM Framework

3 Rules to Put the Ideas of the PMBOK® Guide into Practice

Recently I heard from my colleagues (who’re project managers just like me) that after passing their PMI PMP certification exams they found it difficult to implement the ideas of the PMBOK® Guide within their projects. The point was, my colleagues didn’t realize that real-life project management (PM) was something different than the content of the PMBOK® Guide. Just memorizing and learning situational ideas and typical case studies of the manual didn’t allow them to practice effective PM… So, in this article I wanted to highlight three main rules that allowed my friends to put the ideas of the PMBOK® Guide into practice. I hope my suggestions will help you do effective PM as well.