Your Guide to Project Management Best Practices

Author: Mary Levinson

Small Business Recovery Planning – What is a Business Recovery Plan and How to Avoid Business Insolvency?

Business & Finance

Small Business Recovery Planning – What is a Business Recovery Plan and How to Avoid Business Insolvency?

In the world of business management, small business recovery planning is one of the key activities aimed to avoid business insolvency and develop a contingency action plan. The term “business recover planning” also refers to “disaster recovery planning“. Most experienced business owners perfectly understand the need for disaster planning to ensure their businesses’ survival when disaster strikes. Crisis management and business recovery solutions require small companies to make their best to take into account both inside and outside factors influencing business stability and continuity. Some small-sized companies employ business recovery professionals and specialists who analyze their business activities, make necessary evaluations, and finally give helpful small business recovery advice. Others prefer using their own internal resources to cope with the challenging business environment and outline a business recovery plan template.

project technology management

IT & Software

Project Technology Management – How Technology Drives Project Changes

While business and economic conditions change all the time, a revolution (or a drastic change in managing projects using advanced technologies and IT software solutions) is a discontinuous and abrupt series of IT innovations that make a foundation for effective project technology management. Due to the acceleration of IT software development and further implementation of project technologies in real project environments, today you can hardly find a project that doesn’t use IT software solutions for driving changes.

Project Constraints and Assumptions - A Planning Checklist

PM Tips & Ideas

Project Constraints and Assumptions – A Planning Checklist

Efficient planning for project success significantly depends on the right statement of the constraints and assumptions. Why are constraints and assumptions in project management so important? The answer is that because setting proper project constraints and assumptions paves the way for adequate risk analysis, efficient project planning and timely project delivery. This article is intended to give you definitions of both project constraints and project assumptions and also show what steps can be taken to determine the key characteristics of project success.

agile PM

PM Framework

Agile PM Adoption – The Challenges and the Steps

Traditional project delivery has similar principles and practices with the agile project management methodology (Agile PM methodology). Both approaches aim to deliver measurable results in timely manner. Agile PM adoption – or a transition from the traditional project delivery approach to the agile project methodology – becomes a quite predictable and manageable activity that can be accurately planned in a sequence of simple steps taken before any actual development process takes place.

Marketing PM software

PM Tips & Ideas

Key Software Tools to Succeed in Marketing Projects

Taking into account today’s business efficiencies, marketing project management is one of the key business management activities to take the highest opportunity in an organization for improving performance and increasing the overall business growth. Marketing project management software is a solution that allows performing the marketing function efficiently through using the principles of project management and planning. It paves the way for focusing marketing project managers and planners on analyzing customer orientation and investigating ways for satisfying customer needs through developing detailed plans, scheduling marketing projects, analyzing and mitigating risks, monitoring performance, building marketing project reports and measuring success. In this article we’ll describe several key marketing project management tools that help establish a working environment in which marketers, analysts and planners can efficiently plan, do, monitor and report marketing project initiatives.