7. Project Management Lab

The start of any new project brings a rush of emotions with it: excitement, hope, exhilaration. There’s always a chance that your project could revolutionize the world, or bring you fame and fortune. However, on the flip side, there’s a much higher chance that your project could fail somewhere along the way. Every project incurs […]

Project management software can’t make your product great, but it can help build a great project team – and that’s half the battle. A successful project manager knows that a successful project team needs to work as a cohesive whole, efficiently pooling their ideas and talents for a common goal. That magic chemistry happens when

A comedy of errors makes for a great TV show, but not so much for great project management. The critically acclaimed Silicon Valley tells the story of programmer Richard and the many baffling ways he mismanages a billion-dollar idea. It’s a tongue-in-cheek look at Silicon Valley politics, but this show also watches as a what-not-do

When overseeing a business, innovation is the name of the game. We are currently living in a gig economy, where anyone can take on gigs to make money whenever their schedule allows. Gigs are increasingly becoming more and more common, and can be found in virtually all industries. Because gigs are usually short-term, there is

With so many technologies available to us, it’s become easy to take fresh ideas and turn them into real, concrete projects. Oftentimes, these start as passion projects, which have a lot of personal investment from all the parties involved. These projects especially can elicit raw, powerful emotions that can put projects at risk.  In the

The concept of project management focuses around the organization of tasks, from the assignment of them down to the timeline of completion. Because projects are temporary endeavours, you need to use your time wisely when it comes to managing the work, resources, requirements, and timing. However, these skills and experiences can easily be applied to

In this fourth installment of our mini-series focused on crucial project management topics, we look at project cost and how to manage it. Aside from time, cost is one of the most important project aspects to have under control. Without a budget, project work cannot be sustained; it doesn’t matter how well the project is

The third article in our mini-series revolves around the ever-crucial element of timing. In the world of project management, timing is everything. Time is one of the factors that makes projects what they are; projects are endeavours bounded by scope, cost, quality, and time. From knowing when planning begins, to evaluating when a project phase

Project Management Must haves 02: Project Scope In this second installment of our mini-series for areas of project management focus, we look at one of the trickiest aspects of a project to manage: the project scope. In our quest for efficiency, we tend to want to tackle all problems at once—maybe you can check your