Whether you're preparing for your first management role or you've been managing teams for years, there'll always be something new to learn and existing skills to develop.
Effective communication is the key to ensuring projects don't get bogged down over minute details. The importance of communication cannot be stressed enough and this link round up highlights the skillset required to master this often overlooked management tool.
Gartner predicts that 80% of today's project management work will be automated in the near future. Here's why that should excite project managers, not worry them.
One of the main reasons communication between people breaks down is that listening (like reading, thinking clearly and focusing) is a skill which we rarely consider to be something requiring study and practice.
Your product is decisions and your success will be the sum of the decisions you make over your career. The problem is it's not easy to get better at making decisions and this is no less true in the realm of project and portfolio management.
PPM has guided project execution for decades. SPM, a newer approach coined in 2017, takes a top-down approach, aligning strategies with outcomes. It can be seen as an evolution of PPM, ensuring all projects serve the bigger-picture strategy.
Picking the right metrics for your portfolio is key to its success, but the options are endless and the choice tricky. Thinking of metrics in terms of overall categories can help build a clearer view of what is possible
