The third part of our series Planning made easy is about the planning of in-house trainings and workshops in the company.

Our second part of our series Planning made easy is about moving. You want to change your business premises or relocate a single department? Even small projects such as a move can be easier and more efficient by using a structured project time planning.

Today, we start our new series Planning made easy that will now be published regularly on the InLoox blog. It will provide you with free planning templates for InLoox PM for Outlook and InLoox PM Web App on different topics and from different fields of business.

To manage a project successfully at one location is not always easy for project managers. It becomes even more difficult if project groups are distributed across multiple locations or even across different continents and time zones. To supervise a project with international staff is an additional challenge for project managers, but it also offers advantages.

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Project teams usually consist of employees from different departments of a company. In addition to their work in the project team, those team members often have different supervisors in their departments, they are involved in different workflows outside of the project and they have different approaches to get their work done. That can lead to problems in the project group quite quickly. As a project manager, you are responsible for the results of the project, but you lack the authority to give directives. The following principles help you to manage projects successfully.

This year, many IT executives plan to hire candidates with project management skills, but it is not always easy to start a successful project manager career. The advice given by the Project Management Institute makes it easier.

An interesting article, especially for project directors to-be, was recently published on the project management page PM Hut. In “14 Key Principles for Project Management Success”, the project management author and trainer Michael Greer describes tips for project managers to facilitate successful project completion.