Article Tag:  project management

Published July 19th, 2018 by Andrew Conrad

Are you the kind of person who makes a list at the beginning of the day and then crushes it before the sun goes down? Or, are you the kind of person who wants to be that... Continue Reading

Published July 12th, 2018 by Eileen O'Loughlin

Forty percent of small and midsize businesses (SMBs) are focused on “increasing employee productivity” as a top business goal going into 2020, according to a 2017 Capterra survey on top technology trends. There are various paths to... Continue Reading

Published June 28th, 2018 by Liann Mosier

There are over 700 project management software solutions listed on our site, and many of them offer different sets of features and resources. It can be difficult to know where to start your research with so... Continue Reading

Published June 25th, 2018 by Nikhil Daddikar

Author, speaker, and futurist Jacob Morgan wrote in a Forbes article that, “The internet of things (IoT) is becoming an increasingly growing topic of conversation both in the workplace and outside of it. It’s a concept... Continue Reading

Published June 19th, 2018 by Eileen O'Loughlin

If you ask five different people to define “project failure,” you’ll likely get five different answers. This is because project failure is subjective, determined by both a project’s success criteria and the metrics used to evaluate... Continue Reading

Published May 31st, 2018 by Andrew Conrad, Eileen O'Loughlin, Lauren Maffeo and Pritam Tamang

Update 5/31/2018: This piece has been updated to include new free project management software options and the most current information on the original options. Competition in the free project management software landscape has exploded. When we first... Continue Reading

Published May 21st, 2018 by Pritam Tamang

Improving employee productivity is a serious concern for small businesses. In our recent survey on top technology trends*, small and midsize businesses (SMBs) rated improving employee productivity as one of their top business goals over the... Continue Reading

Published April 27th, 2018 by Andrew Conrad

In 2001, at Utah’s Snowbird ski resort, 17 software developers got together and produced the groundbreaking Agile Manifesto. It was meant to streamline the software development process by de-emphasizing inefficient practices such as heavy documentation, excessive meetings,... Continue Reading

Published April 13th, 2018 by Andrew Conrad

I remember the presentation well, but for all the wrong reasons. The keynote speaker at a well-known project management conference had decades of experience, a clear message, great stage presence, and a truly cringeworthy presentation. Every other slide... Continue Reading

Published April 5th, 2018 by Andrew Conrad

Update 4/5/18: With the release of the 10th edition of the Project Management Institute’s Project Management Salary Survey last year, we updated this piece to reflect the latest salary information available. This information is based on... Continue Reading