Mona Mortazavi

While technical skills are very important, emotional intelligence (EQ) skills are just as much if not more important in the people-process-oriented world of project management, otherwise known as “soft skills.” …

The importance of identifying your stakeholders (Stakeholder Analysis) at the beginning of your project is something all project managers can resonate with. A stakeholder, by definition, is anyone who is …

Emails can be boring to read sometimes. Especially lengthy emails with a lot of detail, but in projects, failure to communicate effectively can become very costly. Here are some ways …

Creating a project charter (following the PMI standard) is one of the first two things you should accomplish during the initiating phase of the project lifecycle. Identifying your stakeholders is …

Ever wonder how project or program managers stay organized all of the time (or most of it)? As a project or program manager, how do you stay organized and ensure …

A few articles ago, I shared how to create a communications plan to support change management in your project. In this article, I am going to be covering the actual …

Creating a communication plan that delivers the right messages, to the right audiences, at the right time is a critical component of your project’s change management. The plan should be …

Project kick-off meetings are critical to a successful project launch and not having a plan in place for how to structure the meeting can have the project start off on …

Monday morning, you walk into work, and you get asked by your manager to swing by their office. You are told that you’ll be managing a new project, but you …