It’s not a secret that project teams (and pretty much everyone else) hate time tracking, even though it’s necessary. Here are four strategies that project managers can use to get their teams on board with time tracking and get usable time data. Continue reading on DPM

A retrospective meeting, often associated with agile methodologies like scrum and kanban, is a crucial opportunity for a team to reflect on their recent work and identify areas for improvement. Retrospectives should ideally be done at a regular cadence. However, what happens if your team does not find them engaging or useful. What if there is little interest in doing them? To…

Have you ever come to the end of a project that and wondered what could have been done better? If the project was not successful, are you curious to learn what contributed to the poor result? A project post-mortem may help to answer some of these questions. What is a Post-Mortem in Project Management? A…

Running a retrospective for a remote project team is a valuable practice to reflect on the project’s progress, identify areas for improvement, and celebrate successes. Much like an in-person session, project retrospectives are valuable to helping project teams learn and continuously improve. Continue to Reading on Nimble Works

In the fast-paced, evolving landscape of today’s world, continuous learning and improvement has become a critical component of success for organizations. Business leaders can no longer afford to view these processes as mere journeys with fixed destinations; they are dynamic experiences that require adaptability, commitment, and a growth mindset. As project leaders in our respective…

Team members don’t have to be besties to be productive, but they do need to respect each other. Here’s how to help. Continue reading on DMP

Find out everything you need to know before you start using the planning poker estimation method for your agile projects: benefits, drawbacks, and how to do it in 5 easy steps. Continue reading on DPM.

Welcome to Budget Crunch. In this ongoing series, we’re covering project budgets and estimates and the challenges that come along with them. Big or small, there’s a story behind every budget, and we’re bringing you these stories to help you solve your own budget challenges. Continue reading on DPM

People attach meaning and value to different things over time. For example, at its basic level, money could be described as pieces of paper or metal. It’s the value that we associate it with these pieces of paper and metal that make it desired and valuable. Continue reading on DPM

Who are the project management influencers and brightest minds shaping the industry today? Which influential thinkers and top strategists should you be following during this unprecedented time of change and upheaval in the industry (and in the economy at large)? Continue reading on DPM

Here’s a good mantra for your project retrospectives: “Sometimes you gotta look backwards to move forward.” You’re inching closer to a project due date. The sponsor is expecting to see your awesome deliverable presented on time, under budget and with all the bells and whistles they asked for. Continue reading on DPM

For the past 8 years, I have taught an introductory project management course at a local university in Southwestern Ontario. In the first class of every semester, I usually ask students two questions: Do you have any project management experience? What do you think a project manager does? Continue reading on DPM

Pre-2020, phrases such as ‘socially distanced’ did not really have much meaning or context. The pandemic has not only added phrases such as ‘socially distanced’ to our lexicon, but we are also seeing new phrases such as ‘the great resignation of 2022’. Whether organizations are going through corporate restructuring or people are voluntarily deciding to…

In this day of apps, AI, and the metaverse, it’s hard to believe there was a time where technology did not play a central role in our lives. When I started my career as a project manager, I enrolled in a project management course at my local community college to get some training.

They say life isn’t linear, but your career path as a project manager may have looked like this:

Scrum, Kanban, Lean…and now SAFe®. The SAFe framework has shown up to the project methodology party. If you don’t want to be left out, let’s get to know our new party guest—the SAFe framework.