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Preparing for Project Kickoff Success: Tips for preparing for a project kickoff with success.
Taking Over as a Project Manager of a New Project? What are next steps?: Helpful tips for Project Managers when taking over a project.

Driving Projects by Theory vs. Following Your Gut Feeling: Discusses various situations of when a project manager should follow the book versus when to focus on what they think may work.

Managing Difficult Personalities on Your Project: In this article, we will look at managing difficult personalities on your projects: Here we show you how to mitigate personality issues and keep your project on track.
How to Run More Effective Meetings The purpose of this article is to give tips to the project manager on how to conduct more meaningful, effective meetings.
Earned Value Management? What is it and is it Practical? EVM has successfully helped companies and government organizations to better produce projects while saving a substantial sum of money. EVM’s aim is to detect performance problems early.
Project Management: Transcending Industries Is it possible to be a successful program manager in one industry and then do the same in another? What does it take to achieve this?
Risk Management Made Simple You know it is important, your clients know it is important, and you know it could save your project from certain disaster.

Roadmap for PM Success: Aligning Projects to Organizational Strategy Reminding project managers of the important role they have in bringing a company’s organizational strategy to fruition.
The Five Most Common Problems in Failed Projects? Read on to see what the five most common problems are and our steadfast solutions to fixing them. We cover communication; stakeholder overload and more.
Tips for the Green Project Manager: Easy tips to incorporate greener and smarter business practices into projects, thereby reducing the project’s carbon footprint.
Work Breakdown Structure – The Forgotten Best Practice This article will discuss the value of the WBS and how to prepare, facilitate and document the information from a WBS session. Included throughout are some best practices, tips and tricks to help you refine your approach.
What Makes a Great Project Manager, Great? Think back to all of the extraordinary PM’s you’ve met. What do they all have in common? Most likely they will possess a subset of the following attributes, qualities, etc. So what makes a great project manager, great?
Rational Unified Process Best Practices: A Primer for the Project Manager If you are an application development project manager, you will very likely be asked if you have ever used RUP, or Rational Unified Process.

How Uncertainty Works: In this article, we will look at uncertainty: Why it exists, how it behaves, how it accumulates, how to reduce it, and how to cope with it.
Integration Waterfall and Agile Development. Tips for integrating Waterfall and Agile methodologies into your development organization.

Introduction to Scrum: Benefits and Practices The benefits of Scrum and the practices that provide them
When to use Scrum A discussion of the appropriate use of Scrum for Software Projects

Scrum as Project Management Comparing and contrasting Scrum vs traditional project management terminology and practices.
Daily Scrums in a Disributed World Recommendations for managing your scrum project with a distributed team.
The Agile Story: Scrum Meets the PMP Do you know what a Scrum is? Wondering if you should try Scrum on your next project?
Driving Change with Business Intelligence. Do you know what business intelligence is and what it can do for you?
Estimating, an Art or a Science? Is accurate project estimation an art or a science? What we’ll explain is that there is no definitive answer to this question. The most successful project estimation occurs when both art and science are blended together.

cPrime Launches New Global Responsibility Program We understand that it is our Global Responsibility to care for our earth and our community. In this article, we are proud to announce the official launch of our cPrime Global Responsibility Program.
One Application, Multiple Languages The importance of understanding what is involved in translating a new software application into another language.
Metrics in Project Management The success of the project management office (PMO) you work in, indeed, perhaps your job as a project manager, may be dependent on whether you have a metrics program in place.