Projects: Managing Teams
Explore expert insights, tips, and best practices for managing teams effectively. Enhance team collaboration, boost productivity, and achieve project success with MPUG’s comprehensive resources on team management.
How to Navigate Internal Politics as a Project Manager
Office politics. Those two words make some of us want to hide under our desks. Whether we like it or not, every project and organization has its politics. Project politics can be difficult to define, ...
The Close Sibling of Communications and Stakeholder Management: Resource Management
In one of my earlier articles, The Twins–Communications and Stakeholder Management, I outlined how deeply and closely these two knowledge areas of the PMBOK® guide interact with each other. We saw a g...
What to Consider in a Two-Way Interview
A job interview for both an employer and a hiring candidate can be a stressful and time-consuming activity. A recent CareerBuilder survey reported that three out of four employers felt that they had h...
PM, CEM, and Covid-19: Reflections
The black swan* has landed, and is honking up a storm, as I am sure you have all noticed. In my 30+ years of planning, I’ve never seen anything like this; have you? Personally, I never paid enou...
Trust: The Foundation of a Successful Team
For most project managers, daily work includes interactions with other individuals. Your ability to manage these interactions plays an important role in defining your team’s efficiency and effectivene...
How to Identify and Hire a Strong Project Manager
Hiring a new project manager can be stressful and time-consuming. Most employers are looking for the perfect mix of ability and skills, and for someone with a personality that fits with the team’s cul...
How Attention to Detail Changes the Way You Do Business
Paying attention to detail comes in many forms. You may discover you are doing a pretty good job of it if you’ve got a document with no typos and correct spacing. This skill can also be seen when you ...
How to Streamline Meeting in the Modern Workplace
The workplace has undergone revolutionary changes in the past several years. Avant-garde tech companies were the first to break the stale, depressing mold of cubicles, corner offices, and 9-5 jobs mor...
Finding Potential in a Diverse Team
Diversity is like the car engine of your workplace. An engine is a collection of parts that run more productively when everything works together. Within your team, there are a variety of people, all w...