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Turnover, a fantastic chaos for Project Management

“The amount of employees leaving a company within a defined period of time” is what turnover means and I would like to talk today about how it negatively affects managing projects. I’m sure some of you might have experienced working for a company for a while and left at some point, only to find out […]

The Future of Project Management. AI.

So according to many online project management news and media outlets, Artificial Intelligence will come in and transform the way we manage projects. In fact, some sources claim that it is already changing certain aspects of project management. Tasks usually done by project manager are now being done by an AI engine that analyzes data, […]

Project Management Summary (Part 3)

Today I would like to summarize some study material I went through in preparation for an assignment that I’ll be making in the upcoming month and, prepare myself for the exam at the end of October. I’m going to write about operations management and organizational project management. So what is Operations Management? It deals with […]

Corporate Innovation Spaces That Don’t Go Anywhere

Today I would like to talk about some comments made during one of the online university lectures I attended this week. It’s regarding labs and other spaces set nowadays by corporations to allow their employees to explore new technologies or ideas that would spark new innovations within the company. In my own experience, these spaces […]

How Technical Should A Sales Person be?

Today I talked to a person that is responsible the technical aspects of the sales process within a high-tech company here in the Netherlands. I had the opportunity to talk to Luigi and he emphasized that its important that a sales person has enough technical awareness and knowledge to understand the full extent of the […]

Summary on Project Management Basics (Part 2)

Today we continue with some more basics on what Project Management entails and I’m going to summarize some points related to Program and Portfolio Management based on PMI’s (Project Management Institute) definitions. These are more higher level entities that are managed and usually consists of other projects and other portfolios.What is Program Management?So PMI defines […]

Summary on Project Management Basics (Part 1)

Today I’ll be writing a brief summary of what project management is. This blog will be a series of blogs that will explain some facts on project management. They’ll be short but concise and hope to inform you quickly about some facts based on the Project Management Institute’s (PMI) PMBok (Project Management Body of Knowledge) […]

Lack of Career Growth affects Project Management

From an organization’s point of view there are at least 3 things to consider when talking about career growth opportunities within your company. Companies sometimes fail realize that not being able to provide decent career growth opportunities, run the risk of having a hard time managing projects. Here’s why: No Commitment to the OrganizationBy not […]