Articles
Demystifying the Stage Gate Process in Project Management
Project phase gates are critical checkpoints that allow project managers to review progress, make informed decisions, and ensure alignment with project objectives, ultimately leading to project succes...
10 Tips for Managing Stress and Work Relationships
Managing stress at work is critical to your success, and strategies like staying active, prioritizing tasks, communicating effectively, being transparent, participating in planning, leveraging your ca...
Stakeholder Engagement: Building a Plan for Good Stakeholder Communication
Your stakeholders will make or break your project. So, how you treat them is critical. This means you have to plan your stakeholder communication with care. In this article, we’ll look at the three el...
Extended EMPWR.AI Free Trial is Now Available for MPUG Members
For the past few months a number of MPUG members have been working with Envorso on a new AI tool for project managers called Empwr.ai. They recently started inviting project managers to use the tool f...
Kanban at Scale: Managing Multiple Teams and Boards with MS Project Agile
The ‘black mountain’ forced in, broke Konark’s iron gates,Drank the water of Mahanadi river, and ate from the golden plates. – Narrated by my parents in Odia, loosely translat...
Mastering Scope Management: Validation and Control Strategies
Introduction Scope or requirements creep is the uncontrolled and often unmanageable growth of a project’s original requirements. According to a study done by the Project Management Institute, about 50...
How to Keep Your PMP Certificate Current with MPUG: A Guide for Project Managers
Congratulations on earning your Project Management Professional (PMP)® certification! As a college graduate or project manager, you have demonstrated your expertise in the field of project management ...
Revolutionizing Project Management: The AI-Driven PMO and Its Transformative Potential
Introduction Welcome to the transformative world of project management, where artificial intelligence (AI) is not just a buzzword, but a game-changer in the way Project Management Offices (PMOs) funct...
Project Leadership: What Does it Really Mean to Lead, Not Manage?
In his 1990 book, “On Becoming a Leader,” Warren Bennis articulated his famous 12 differences between managers and leaders. The last is the best-known: ‘The manager does things right; the leader does ...