Project Management

I have written a lot of examinations in my lifetime and most often than not I have always wished I had more time to give all the answers that I know. In those examinations, I realized that I am not only being examined to evaluate what I know, but more importantly, to estimate my ability...

Television news is an extremely fast-paced industry with breaking alerts happening 24 hours a day. Digital marketing would give the newsroom a run for its money considering the rapid pace of the online marketing world Website changes paid advertising adjustments, SEO monitoring, link acquisition, social posting and article creation, and distribution are the typical tasks...

Have you ever wondered why a project fails? Most of us look up to successful project managers and their ideas to improve on our projects, but does it really help? I am not saying that it doesn’t, but there are many other resources to learn how to excel in the project management field which are...

Last week, Susan had a terrifying experience. She was sitting at her desk among the confines of her tiny cubicle posting the latest eCard. She smiled in gleeful anticipation of the avalanche of likes and comments she knew were soon to come. As she concluded her post, the eerie feeling crept over her – she...

We are very excited to announce the launch of the new ProProfs Project Calendar. Get an overview of all your due projects, tasks, events and drag and drop them to re-plan. We often get emails asking us if we’re going to introduce a calendar system to ProProfs Project. Many of you found that you needed...

A spoonful of sugar spurred Jane and Michael Banks into spectacular productivity with the help of the Law of Attraction and the arrival of efficiency-expert Nanny, Mary Poppins. The most priceless gifts everyone has aren’t how much we can receive, or how many things we have, but what we do with them. As unique each...

Have you ever found yourself questioning how to manage underperforming employees at work? As a project manager, there may be times when you are required to deal with staff who just aren’t performing when compared with their peers. Either they are delivering work below the established standard or are missing task deadlines frequently, or doing...

The three primary ways in which humans interact are conversations, transactions and collaborations. This post explains each one of these and shows how each are important at times during our working life. Conversational Interaction This is where two or more people participate in an exchange of information primarily for relationship building or discovery. There are...

As a project manager, one of the most difficult situations to handle can be the late delivery of a project. It will happen to most managers during their career but handling it well can keep the client on your side and lead to successful completion. No matter how well you plan or run a project,...