Andrew Filev
, Wednesday, September 01, 2010
 In my previous post about the problem of telling what’s important on a project, I promised to share some thoughts and tips on how standard project management methodologies, particularly the critical path method, can facilitate your planning efficiency when applied to a project creatively. But first of all, it is worth discussing what the critical path method (CPM) is all about.
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Andrew Filev
, Tuesday, August 24, 2010
 You’ve read and heard it so many times: “Efficient project planning is vital for your project’s success.” However, when you’re dealing with a complex project, building an effective project schedule may be really hard, to say the least.
You have to first create a long list of tasks that should be completed to deliver the project, then assign team members to these tasks and also make sure you pay special attention to tasks that are critical for project success. Very often, identifying the tasks that need special attention turns out to be the trickiest part of the planning job. Another big challenge may be to differentiate between the tasks that should be completed first and assignments that can be delayed without delaying the whole project.
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Andrew Filev
, Thursday, July 01, 2010
 A new tool came to our lives and greatly influenced the way we communicate. Twitter turned out to be next big thing of the social media world, and it looks like it’s here to stay. How can we explain Twitter’s immense popularity? Simplicity, convenience, speed? I’d say it’s all three of them that make the tool so sticky. In fact these factors even made many of us seek a similar tool to facilitate our project communications.
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Andrew Filev
, Monday, June 07, 2010
 Last month, Business Computing World, a blog focused on business technology, published a list of the 10 best project management blogs. The author of the post, Heather Buckley, is the director and co-founder of a British IT and business training provider, Silicon Beach Training. She picked bloggers who offer something unique and engaging on project management topics. It’s nice to see my Project Management 2.0 blog on the list! The abstract provided in the post is right to the point:
“As the name suggests, Andrew focuses on changes in contemporary project management thanks to collaborative and real-time digital technologies. For anyone interested in how to use the Social Internet or wanting to read up on the way project management is adapting, this is the place to head”.
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Andrew Filev
, Sunday, May 16, 2010
Mistake #5: Poor interactions within your team and with clients
The last, but not least, most common mistake project managers make when managing multiple projects is inefficient communications. Poor communications within a team lead to misunderstandings and therefore to mistakes in project work. If your project lacks communication with clients, you and your client might end up with two different project visions as a result. In any case, miscommunication will result in loss of time and money, as well as in increasing your stress.
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Andrew Filev
, Friday, April 30, 2010
 Mistake #4: Turning from a project leader into a project secretary
Now, if you want to get the up-to-date information ( winning strategy #2) all in one place ( winning strategy #3), you are prone to mistake#4: turning into a robot, constantly copying information back and forth.
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Andrew Filev
, Sunday, April 25, 2010
 The spring turns out to be very busy this year. We have a lot going on in the development of our project management software, Wrike. In addition to that, I was invited to contribute to a couple of authoritative project management resources, such as Projects@Work and the ICPM, as well as to speak at a few events. I already wrote about my session at the SV PCamp. Another one was the PMI Monterey Chapter meeting, where I gave a talk on the use of various Web 2.0 technologies in project management.
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Andrew Filev
, Monday, April 12, 2010
 It’s great to see that my series about 5 Most Common Mistakes in Managing Multiple Projects turned out so popular. I got a number of requests to keep on posting. So please welcome the third part of the series. If you misses the first or the second part of the sequence please make sure to check them out.
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Andrew Filev
, Sunday, March 28, 2010
 This is the second post in the series about 5 most common mistakes people make in managing multiple projects simultaneously. Before you read this piece, please take a look at 5 Most Common Mistakes in Managing Multiple Projects: Learn to Avoid Them (Part 1).
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Andrew Filev
, Monday, March 22, 2010
 Have you ever wondered why some managers seem to be natural born multitaskers and run 10+ projects smoothly, when others seem to be having a hard time running multiple projects? Leading a company that offers one of the most popular project management software products on the market, I hear a lot of project management war stories and spend a lot of time analyzing the bottlenecks in project management and various ways to overcome them. During my analysis, I thought it would be a good idea to share those war stories with you to help you improve your management skills. So I’ve come up with a list of the 5 most common mistakes managers make when managing multiple projects. In addition, I accompanied them with the 5 strategies that will help you become a more productive project manager who can easily complete several projects on time and on budget. I also decided to split the list into five shorter parts, so that it would be more convenient for you to read. Here’s the first part of this series.
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