How-tos and guides

Guides, tutorials, tips, and useful educational materials to improve your professional skills in planning, scheduling, project management, and other related areas.

Where’s All Your Time Gone? How to Find It and Get It Back

Have you ever wanted to know how much time your employees spend surfing the web, sifting through their email inbox failing to manage emails the right way or attempting to find a document hidden in a mountain-high pile of file folders? According to a Wall Street Journal article, office employees waste about 40 percent of…

Lisa Dunn
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March 6, 2018
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Estimated reading time: 4 minutes
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How to Improve Your Team Efficiency and Get Results

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work. Stephen King Working on a project is a difficult challenge. Working on a project together with a team is much more challenging due to a diversity of character traits, experience, motivation, etc. There always will be clashes in…

Andrew Stepanov
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December 27, 2017
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Estimated reading time: 5 minutes
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How to Effectively Evaluate Project Management Methodologies for Your Business

As a project manager, you have a tough call of duty. You have to find a way to “coordinate all the things” – establish what goes where, build a high-performing team and ensure that all the stakeholders’ needs are met. But, it takes a highly skilled leader to steer a project from inception to conclusion.…

Kritika Pandey
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November 23, 2017
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Estimated reading time: 5 minutes
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How Stakeholder Management Influences on a Project

No project can be successfully accomplished without stakeholders and their management. It is a critical and integral part of any plan that has the only aim – to achieve results and deliverables that were set from the very beginning. A special term – project stakeholder management - exists to describe the process of dealing with…

Andrew Stepanov
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August 11, 2017
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Estimated reading time: 5 minutes
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10 Tips for Successful Project Management

Among the other things that should be remembered by successful project management team, there is the fact that sometimes there’s nobody who manages the manager. Thus, all taken decisions should be made following by deep base of knowledge and thorough understanding of this job. Here we provide some tips along with a useful project management…

Andrew Stepanov
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April 28, 2017
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Estimated reading time: 6 minutes
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How to Successfully Manage Projects with Timely Created Project Scope Statements

The world we live in is not chaotic. To function properly, it applies certain rules to a great variety of things and systems. And in any system, there is a structure without which it won’t exist as an ordered set. Project management is definitely a complicated structure where its elements should exist in order and…

Andrew Stepanov
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March 30, 2017
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Estimated reading time: 6 minutes
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How to Win the Battle Against Project Scope Creep?

“You know what the issue is with this world? Everyone wants some magical solution to their problem and everyone refuses to believe in magic.” Lewis Carroll There is no magic in project management. Any small problem can become a serious consequence for any skilled manager. Even if you are fluent in one of the business…

Paolo Kukhnavets
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February 20, 2017
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Estimated reading time: 7 minutes
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How to Solve Business Issues With the Help of CATWOE Analysis?

What is the global aim of design methods? We suppose it to be the problem-solving. But before solving any problem it's useful and sometimes crucial to explore the problem roots and all the factors that relate to it. Knowing the problem, stakeholders can make a decision how to take further actions. In this article, we'd…

Paolo Kukhnavets
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January 20, 2017
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Estimated reading time: 5 minutes
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