Measurement is key to successful project management. As the old adage says, “You can't manage what you don't measure.”
Collecting and measuring data is at the heart of any worthwhile endeavor. With a New Year’s resolution to lose weight, you may find yourself counting calories or—go you!—watching
At the beginning of every project, there’s a problem to solve: how will we execute our project and in a way that satisfies stakeholders? How will we define scope, objectives, and results of a project?
The answers to each of these questions fill in your project management strategy. In this article
Companies pay top dollar to marketing directors and app developers for their creative genius. Yet today’s rapid pace of business has increased the day-to-day administrative tasks of these talented professionals, making it harder for them to continually add value without burning out.
So, what’s the
As companies look to continuously optimize their talent pool, contingent workers are becoming the norm. In fact, more than 40% of workers are now classified as contingent, up from 30% just a decade ago.
And, despite the insinuation by some that it’s because they can’t find “real jobs,” in fact 70%
Since the recently imposed tax cuts, many major corporations (including Walmart, Home Depot, Verizon, and Disney) have announced that they will be giving one-time bonuses to employees. Everyone loves a bonus, and these corporations are certainly benefiting their employees. But cold, hard cash isn’t
Agile project management is a modern, flexible approach to project management. It allows you to break large projects down into more manageable tasks, which are tackled in short iterations or sprints. This enables your team to adapt to change quickly and deliver
We all have informal processes for the things we do every day, from getting ready to go to work to deciding which emails to respond to first thing in the morning. Processes help us make sense of the complex things we do, and getting them down on paper helps cement them in our minds and gives us a
Imagine ranking every task of your working week on a scale from “I do this to pay the bills” to “I do this to make a difference.”
Each end of the scale represents how motivated you feel: from trudging through tedious-but-necessary tasks to challenging work that pushes you to perform at your peak.
Remote work is on the rise. Gallup reports that over 40% of American workers now spend at least some time working remotely, and nearly a third do so four or five days a week.
The flexibility, convenience, and independence has made remote work a top priority for job seekers, especially millennials,
According to expert forecasts, enterprises will spend a staggering $1.3 trillion on digital transformation technologies in 2018—an increase of 16.8% over the previous year.
If history is any indication, 70% of these initiatives will not reach their stated goals, meaning over $900 billion will be
It has always been important for leaders to establish vision to inspire their teams and lead them to success. But with the coming age of automation, it’s going to be even more important that leaders win both their team members’ heads and hearts.
Why? Because as mundane, administrative tasks become
