Becoming a manager is an exciting step up on the career ladder for most people — but it also comes with a whole host of new responsibilities, tasks, and additional stress. Nearly half of managers report feeling stressed out from trying to balance...
Project managers, and the teams they work with, are under extreme pressure to perform, which is why time management is such an important skill to master. Unfortunately, research has found that most people are only truly productive for two hours...
Product owners are the key liaison between users, business stakeholders, and the development team. This is a mission critical role that is central to a product’s strategy, roadmap, and success. Unfortunately, the product owner role is often confused...
For Agile teams and companies, scaling can often feel at odds with Agile’s core ethos of focusing on individuals, collaborating with customers, and responding to changes. Scaling is so daunting that the number of companies actively expanding their...
In business, it’s easy to become obsessed with an idea. Founders, leaders, and managers become convinced that they know exactly who wants their product and what they need from it. But the hard truth? They’re often wrong. Too many teams try to...
No one wants to plan for failure. But even with the most detailed plans, the best people, and a healthy budget, projects can (and do) go wrong. And that’s not to mention outside factors you don’t have any control over. With projects increasingly...
At the atomic level, a company is a collection of processes that come together to produce products, services, and customer interactions. But as staff change roles and technology evolves, processes can quickly become out of date, leaving you unable...
Being a project manager can often feel like you’re fighting the mythical many-headed Hydra — every time you manage to finish a project, two (or more) pop up in its place. One survey found that 85% of project managers work on at least two projects...
Most business leaders can tell you what a strategy is, but not many can actually deliver one. In fact, a recent Forbes study shows that between 60% and 90% of business strategies fail before they even launch! The strategic planning process guides...
Building high-performing teams is hard work. Many leaders think you can just bring random people together, sit them in a room, and set them a task — but that rarely, if ever works. It takes time for a team to bond, set boundaries, establish norms...