Managing a project can be daunting. Whether planning your wedding, developing a new website or building your dream house by the sea, you need to employ project management techniques to help you ...

PMI is the world's leading professional association for a growing community of millions of project professionals and change-makers worldwide. Location: United States ...

Earned Value Management (EVM) helps project managers to measure project performance. It is a systematic project management process used to find variances in projects based on the comparison of worked ...

That's why setting SMART goals - Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Timely - is the first step in making your goal a reality. Make your goal as specific as possible and express it in ...

A Gantt chart is a popular project management bar chart that tracks tasks across time. When first developed in 1917, the Gantt chart did not show the relationships between tasks. This has become ...

What qualities are most important for a project leader to be effective? Over the past few years, the people at ESI International, world leaders in project management training, have looked in to what ...

Of this process, there were really two critical success factors. First, I needed to push the long lead time items that had been missed, getting them in motion with expedited speed and escalated ...

Project management in the modern sense began in the 1950s, although it has its roots further back in the latter years of the 19th century. The need for project management was driven by companies that ...

The 1990s saw a dramatic increase in the number of people with the job title project manager as organisations addressed the problem of an ever changing world through managing by projects. Many ...

Why is there resistance to change? Are people just naturally perverse, or are there concerns which if understood and correctly dealt with will create the buy-in required to turn resisters into ...

Managing software projects is difficult under the best circumstances. The project manager must balance competing stakeholder interests against the constraints of limited resources and time, ...

Project management itself is nothing new. The modern framework began in the early 1950s, driven by businesses that realised the benefits of organising work around projects. More importantly, they ...