IDG Contributor Network: Your hidden 'everything else' resourcing problem
Projects stuck in the slow lane? Many companies successfully weathered the turbulent economic times of recent years. Now, they are taking on more projects as the economy improves. The staff are busier...
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: How to destroy productivity in three easy steps
There’s been a lot of discussion recently on the personal effects of overwork. From the corporate perspective, productivity killers like overwork, are adding to the problems outlined in our previous...
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: The greatest reason in the world to track what your...
Do you know what your employees are really doing every day? Today’s business environment demands a level of organizational agility that is historically unprecedented. Our most consistent...
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: Ending the 'War on Work': Improving team...
Are you working in a war zone? It’s truly fascinating that we resort to war-based terminology when we feel crunched. We are under the gun. We meet in war rooms. We create battle cards and attack...
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: This one PMO approach is obscuring the truth from...
Some years ago, a local builder here in Seattle was taking me through the project plan for my new house. This plan was a work of art, as its structure supported the conversation between client and...
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: Why is trusting data from your employees so hard?
How many of you trust the information you receive from your employees? I was speaking this weekend in Calgary, Canada when the issue of employee trust came up. Many managers seem to have an inherent...
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: Does your company have rhythm?
Rhythms define how we interact within our companies. Rhythm implies we have a sense of when something is supposed to happen and how often. Rhythm is immensely important to our project and portfolio...
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: Are you still struggling with your data?
Data can help you find, understand and address underlying organizational issues. The first step is understanding the data.The struggle is real Many companies are struggling with the transition to...
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: The pipe dream of 80% resource availability
Project success today is threatened by the fallacy of 80 percent resource availability for project work. A look at your typical employee’s calendar, full of recurring meetings, would prove that...
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: 3 mistakes companies make implementing time tracking
Many data-centric companies make three common mistakes which lead to situations where at best, you are collecting data that is hard to analyze and at worst, is a total waste of the organization’s time...
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: The augmented project manager
After seeing recent industry presentations on bots, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), I see the application of these technologies changing the practice of project management. The...
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