No fluff – just actionable guides for planning, tracking, and optimizing project management processes
Staying within the defined scope of your project helps you deliver on the deliverables you agreed upon within a reasonable timeframe. However, out-of-scope happens to be one of the biggest challenges project managers face during project management. Since no project is immune to out-of-scope, you need ...
Project Management • • 7 min read
Before a problem or challenge can be solved, it needs to be fully understood. The same goes for product launches and marketing strategies. If you want a product or campaign to deliver, you need to know exactly what the customer wants, and what the business can endure.Forbes tells us two key reasons why ...
Project Management • • 10 min read
Your list of project requirements is endless. The time frame, tight. The budget, minimal (there’s a shocker). And your resources, scarce. Even with the most optimistic, go-getter attitude and mindset, you know meeting the deadline with the full list of priorities delivered is an impossible feat. Whenever ...
Project Management • • 8 min read
How many times have you found yourself in the middle of a trivial task only to realize half your day is gone, and you haven’t even started working on that big client proposal?Most people usually start their workdays by checking emails, following up on previous discussions, and catching up on updates ...
Project Management • • 7 min read
![Eisenhower Decision Matrix Explained [Urgent vs. Important] Cover Image](https://activecollab.com/upload/blog/632/cover.png)
How clear are you on the difference between urgent and important? And when the time comes to work out if a task is one or the other (or perhaps both), can you do it? How do you decide?These are all questions the Eisenhower decision matrix, a task prioritization technique can help solve. If we follow ...
Project Management • • 9 min read
Question: What’s the best way to present your project to a group of stakeholders? A: A project roadmap, B: A 20-page Project Initiation Document, or C: A project plan?If you're struggling to answer this question, don’t worry, you’re not the only one. We get it: project management can get a bit ...
Project Management • • 9 min read
Companies must be aware of how the marketing environment affects their decision-making processes. Failing to do so could make them face a potential downfall and even go out of business. On the other hand, companies could always explore potential revenue opportunities if they are aware of the marketing ...
Project Management • • 5 min read
Getting your product or service as fast as possible in front of your customers has become imperative. Let’s consider Apple’s iPhone for a second. We get a new one in September of every year, like clockwork.And when you think about it, 12 months is an insanely short time to market, considering how ...
Project Management • • 8 min read
According to many studies, more than 60% of projects are either late or fail to deliver to specifications. Risk is one of the aspects that can impact timeline, budget, scope, and project resources, and there is no way of knowing when it will happen. Most of the time, you will feel like all the odds are ...
Project Management • • 5 min read
Project management tool assist individuals and teams in managing and organizing their tasks and projects effectively. Project management software is not specifically designed for project managers. It is customized and adjusted to fit the needs of a team of different sizing and with different organizational ...
Project Management • • 8 min read
Generating an accurate estimate is one of the crucial aspects of job management, leading to successful project execution. Not only do estimates help you win new business, but they also determine the project budget, manage resources, focus on schedule, and ultimately deal with invoicing.Unfortunately ...
Project Management • • 5 min read
Have you ever considered how assumptions affect our lives? For example, we assume our alarm will go off as scheduled, we will have our first coffee in the morning, and we believe our car will start and get us to work on time.It's in human nature to operate under assumptions. However, sometimes they can ...
Project Management • • 4 min read