Planisware Hub - Work Management & Collaboration

Innovation is a team sport, requiring a complete set of professional skills.

Want to become a great IT project manager? Download our guide to soft skills in IT project management, complete with interactive checklist and level up.

How to get started with Agile? What skills should you look for in distributed Agile team members? What is the role of managers in Agile teams? In this interview, Johanna Rothman explores Agile teams and how to manage them (including remotely)

Cost savings are high, but the lack of physical proximity for direct exchange of ideas and information among individuals can have a severe impact on teams.

Most project managers know and can cite the definition of project management, yet as evidenced by their project documents, discussions, and behaviors they do not know and cannot cite the stakeholder biases for the project. Worse, some project managers have no familiarity with the term.

Top performing companies are achieving superior product innovation performance results by embracing and excelling in the four key drivers of success: Product Innovation Strategy, Portfolio Management, Stage-Gate® Idea-to-Launch Process, and a Culture of Leadership.

The complete list of Dr Michael Menke's PPM Accelerate 50 Best Practices, sorted into categories.

How do you build a performing team in a remote-hybrid environment?

Without knowing where you are, it is difficult to set the course for where you want to be.

Curious what Agile has to offer? Here are 3 tools that teams outside of Agile should consider adopting too.

Success in project teams often stems from a desire from each member to voice their opinion and disagree with decision makers when required. Does your organization frown upon the disagreeable and skeptical people within teams? Maybe it's time to make a change.

Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. George Bernard Shaw

These are the essential best practices for the initiation stage of the project life cycle. Ignore them at your peril.

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.

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.

Mastering the art of working remotely, especially as it pertains to managing projects and teams—has become more important than ever before.

Our traditional way of working has transformed.

When planning resources for a project, a resource’s time available is seldom 5-days-a-week, 8-hours-a-day of continuous productive work. So a task which in the absolute should take 10 days to perform will, in the real world, take a bit (or a lot) longer.

Why regularly improving and streamlining project management activities can drive a business long-term productivity and success.