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 that you should accomplish during the initiating phase of the project lifecycle. Identifying your stakeholders…

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…