Project management in engineering is a complex process that requires the intelligent coordination of both engineering processes and project management activities. What do you need to know to manage e...

When managing a project​, it’s vitally important to regularly monitor its state: whether or not it has deviated from the approved schedule and budget; how much work has been completed and how much is ...

Project management involves creating lots of documentation. If you look into project management standards, you will find at least a dozen of various plans, multiple types of reports, and numerous othe...

Whatever great idea is behind a project, it won’t be implemented without stakeholders’ buy-in and investment. To get their support and approval, they need to understand what value an initiative will b...

Every project management activity doesn’t exist in isolation – they are all related to and dependent on each other, may have competing requirements and/or shared resources. And if there are multiple p...

Estimation of project costs is one of the core practices of the project initiation stage, which becomes the basis for the approved project budget. However, the main challenge of this process is that i...

Thorough planning can determine the success of any endeavor. Whether it’s starting a business or building a house of your dream, you’ll have more chances for success if you have a well-thought plan an...

Do you know that inaccurate requirements gathering appears to be one of the common causes for project failure?  This fact makes us take a fresh look at this process. Collecting and documenting project...

Any project is vulnerable to risks and uncertainties that sometimes can’t be predicted and avoided. But there are things that negatively affect the project success but can be neither controlled nor pr...

This article was updated on November 2, 2021. The need for specialists in the field of project management is growing annually because businesses are getting bigger and most companies are becoming proj...

The success of any project is dependent on a number of factors such as clear goals, realistic project schedule, budget, resource, risk, and uncertainty management. But the favorable outcome of a proje...

Regardless of your skills, background, and experience, you probably have asked yourself a question at least once: what kind of knowledge do I need to be a competitive expert in project management? Wha...