Virtual meetings have become common in the last time. The impact was the COVID-19 pandemic that disabled face-to-face meetings in projects. In general, virtual meetings are meetings and should follow the standard process of implementing meetings. The essentials for meetings are a timely invitation, an agenda, the coordination of the… Read More »Managing Virtual Meetings
This is a brief presentation of typical Project Management Tasks that are standard in European (ERASMUS+) projects. A project manager, assisted by the team, is charged with multiple responsibilities that span the five classic project phases of a project life cycle (initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, and closing). Typical activities of… Read More »Project Management Tasks
Actually, leadership simply means management. But that is no longer what the term means today. It is about true leadership and not about managing. Management vs Leadership Management means keeping an organization running; leadership, on the other hand, means changing it and involving others in the process. Here it is… Read More »Management Leadership
Lessons learned focus on the feedback of a project team with the intention to improve it in the future. In typical Erasmus+ projects, the project team creates content named “Intellectual Outputs”. Starting with 2021, this changed to content created in Work Packages. Nevertheless, there is a creative process with some… Read More »Lessons Learned: Content Creation
In many projects, the satisfaction of a positive project conclusion is so great that many partners forget about a “Lessons Learned” discussion. This is bad because the project partners miss the opportunity to improve and strengthen – mainly in project management. This analysis of the performance in the project, identifying… Read More »Lessons Learned
Lessons Learned (LL) are experiences distilled from past activities that should be actively taken into account in future actions and behaviors. In our environment of projects, lessons learned are the knowledge gained from the process of conducting a project. This includes the positives and negatives. The idea is to repeat… Read More »Lessons Learned
Planning the budget is one of the big issues when you write the project plan (or a project proposal for a European project). The first step is to identify the estimated costs. A properly working method is to take each work package, identify the costs in the different fields, and… Read More »Budget and Budget Problems
Communication in project management involves the exchange of information between all project participants. Communication is a key function in project work. Effective and goal-oriented communication are the basic requirements for the successful completion of a project. Communication as a cornerstone in successful projects. In project management, three main areas of… Read More »Communication in Projects