

Charter vs Statement of Work
A project charter or a statement of work (SOW)? What makes more sense to deliver to your client? Well, there’s a number of other...


Resource and Revenue Forecasting
As project and functional managers we are often asked by our organizations “what are we going to bill next month (or quarter or year)?”....


Resource Allocation Management
As a team leader or project manager you will have resources assigned to you as direct reports or as project team members. In either...


Building the Perfect Leadership Relationship
As a project manager (or as a leader in general) it’s critical that you establish and maintain effective, positive relationships with...


The Importance of Downtime
We’ve all been there before – juggling increasingly stressful workloads with the pressures of trying to be ‘present’ at home as much as...


How to Handle Underperforming Team Members
We’ve all been there before – working with someone (or sometimes several people) who are consistently underperforming. These people can...


Building a Successful Transition Plan
It’s inevitable that at some point in your career as a leader that you will have one of your team members (or even yourself) leave a...


Dealing with a Crisis – Keeping Your Head When Others Lose Theirs
Adversity is a great test of character. It builds it as well as reveals it. Throughout our careers (and our personal lives) we will deal...


Conducting an Effective Lessons Learned Meeting
So you’ve delivered your project and you’re now in the process of going through the formal project close activities. Your PMO wouldn’t be...


Effectively Crashing Projects
We’ve all been there before – our project is in trouble and we need help to steer it out of the ditch. Often times we’re presented with...