Employee engagement is at an all-time low. According to the latest Gallup research, less than ⅓ of employees say they’re actively engaged in their work. While the percentage of people actively disengaged from work (i.e., doing the bare minimum...
If you want your projects to succeed, you need your stakeholders on board early. Unfortunately, too many project managers and development teams are eager to build and skip the stakeholder analysis stage. But this is a mistake. Stakeholder analysis...
No project happens in a vacuum. Instead, they require input, oversight, and support from various stakeholders to keep the wheels turning. That’s why over 90% of organizations large and small rely on project status reporting for sharing progress...
Whether you’re at a scrappy startup, massive enterprise company, or somewhere in the middle, there’s a depressing truth you need to acknowledge: Most of what you do in a day won’t matter. No, we’re not trying to be pessimists — rather, it’s all...
According to CB Insights, more than ⅓ of all businesses fail for the same reason: there’s no market need for their products. While it may sound like common sense to make sure people actually want what you’re building, project and product teams...
Getting the best team performance from a group of technical or creative professionals is a lot like commanding a Viking longship - you need strength, skill, experience, motivation, and above all else, to be in sync. Unfortunately, too many teams...
There’s no denying that project management is hard work. Even after decades of learning to master the art of running projects, data shows that over 70% of all projects fail. For new project managers, that stat can be terrifying. The last thing...
For most project managers, it’s not the beginning or end of a project that’s difficult to plan for - it’s the “messy middle.” Even with the best scope of work and an actionable project plan, it’s impossible to know what might happen once you start...
While there’s no such thing as the “perfect” project plan — studies show that mid-project scope changes are still one of the leading causes for project failure. But in a profession where change is inevitable, often the real reason for failure isn...
When it comes to productivity, routines and habits get all the attention — but high-performers rely just as heavily on having powerful rituals in place. Rituals tie your team together, creating a shared purpose and a powerful culture. While everyone...