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.
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.
There are hundreds of reasons for conflicts in project management. They can be a huge impediment towards the success of a completed project. Let's explore some of them!
Gantt charts are the most commonly used planning and charting technique. How and when are they used, and what are their advantages over other techniques?