Businesses are under more pressure than ever to create new and better products and services faster. Everybody is talking about disruption and everybody wants to disrupt. 

Project managers are notoriously busy and stressed, but that doesn’t mean that they lose their sense of humor along the way. We asked project managers on LinkedIn to share their favorite PM jokes with the InLoox blog. 

Like a good story, every project has a beginning, a middle, and an ending. And just like in stories, a project can either have a happy end or end in a tragedy, depending on how it was managed. 

Every project has various stakeholders who have an interest in its successful completion. However, it’s not easy to meet everyone’s requirements as each stakeholder has different interests. 

Earned Value Management (EVM) is a widely used project management process and technique to measure project performance. It is also an extremely important part of the PMP exam. 

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Leadership – the must-have skill in most job listings. Everyone talks and writes about it, but what many get wrong is that they mistake ‘management’ for leadership. 

A successful project start is extremely important because it’s a good indicator for the further process of the project. To ensure that your project initiation goes smoothly, you should ask yourself the 5 W and 2 H questions.

Email is one of the most prevalent communication methods but also one of the biggest productivity killers. With these 8 tricks, email management can actually help you work and communicate more effectively. 

Ideally, you should’ve kept things in order all year long so that it’s always ‘spring clean’, but that’s most likely not the case. Just like furniture, projects can get dusty and processes can become inefficient.

Innovation is about improving existing processes. At its core SCAMPER is an easy to implement creative thinking and problem solving method that facilitates continuous improvement.