Project Management Tips

Get your most pressing project management question answered—in five minutes or less—with these expert tips.

Introduction

• Tips for project management
• Why does project management matter?
• What does a project manager do?

1. Building a Great Project Plan

• What is a project charter?
• How to get buy-in from your project team
• What are project milestones?
• Compress project timelines
• What is a RACI matrix?

2. Project Management Software Tips

• What does project management software do?
• Create a work breakdown structure (WBS)
• What is a network diagram?
• What is a critical path?
• What is a Gantt chart?

3. Communication Tips

• Build a communication plan
• Ask the right project questions
• Survey tools for project management
• Data visualization for project management
• Project scorecards for reporting

4. Tips for Project Update Meetings

• Track unexpected project issues
• How to raise project concerns
• Avoid extra project costs
• Monitor project risks
• How to use a meeting parking lot

5. Helping Your Team Succeed

• Manage a project crisis
• Manage budget cuts and personnel changes
• What is scope creep?
• Maintain team engagement
• Closeout a project

6. Agile Project Tips

• What is an Agile project?
• What is a persona?
• What is a user story?
• Break a user story into tasks
• What is a Sprint?
• What does a product owner do?
• Run an Agile daily meeting
• What is acceptance testing?
• What is a project Kanban?
• What is a minimum viable product?