PS Best Practices Blog Articles

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…

When I was going through school, I remember getting critiqued on my papers by using the word ‘use’ too much.   So I would work around it by substituting ‘utilize’; tricky…

In general a project manager must have the 3 ‘tions’ to be successful: Communication, coordination, and organization.

What is the most effective way to communicate with your team and your organization? Take the time to determine if you need to inform people, if you need responses from people, or if you are looking to encourage feedback/discussions among your group. Not all of your communication needs to be handled with a single approach.

Are you looking for a tool to introduce business efficiency and perhaps automation? Tool selection involves evaluating products against defined requirements and making a best fit selection. The result of marrying business process with tool usage should be efficient business operations including data tracking and reporting. Not a test of how many tool features you can use.

In a pure consulting organization, the sales team has a keen focus on closing the deal - this is the bread and butter of the company. In a product company with services, it isn’t this clear. You may be surprised by this statement but consider this - what is the driver of the company?