PS Best Practices Blog Articles

Back from vacation and time to pick up on those weekly blogs again!   I thought I would start with a topic near and dear to everyone’s heart – timesheets! The…

Read Part 1 of this 2-part series. In this blog continuation, we’re talking about the tracking and handling of employee expenses.  When running a business, one of the things you…

When running a business, one of the things you definitely need to deal with is expenses of all types:  travel expenses, equipment expenses, facility expenses, subscription and association fees, payroll…

I’ve had the opportunity to work with many global clients and be on many global teams.  Many of you may find yourself in similar situations.  What I find interesting in…

This article should really be titled ‘it takes one to know one’.  For as long as I can remember, I’ve always had a full plate of work.  It could be…

It’s been a couple of weeks since my last blog, did anyone miss me?  The main problem was workload, as you could have guessed, but I was also taking steps…

Change is never easy, especially to those everyday processes and actions that become patterns or habits in your life.  If someone moved the silverware drawer to the other side of…

I’ve been fortunate (or unfortunate, depending on your viewpoint on such matters) to be included as a reviewer on budget planning activities with various companies. Being the owner of a…

Summer is coming and this means many of your employees are planning their family vacations.  It’s also allergy season here in the Virginia area which has knocked quite a few…

Early on in my project management life I read a book that described what a ‘man-month’ or ‘man-day’ is, which is paraphrased as the amount of productive time you can…