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The Project Team's Role in Controlling a Project

Maintaining the project plan often falls to the responsibility of the project manager, yet the project team can play an important role in ensuring the project stays in control. To effectively monitor a project's progress, the project team should understand...

Sponsoring a Change Management Initiative

This article discusses the importance of sponsoring change and how the sponsor has a key role in helping the project achieve success.

Helping Staff Understand Change

In the rush to implement change, staff are often expected to simply accept the resulting changes to their work and lives. But people don't always adjust as quickly and easily as would be hoped. One of the biggest hurdles to transforming organizations...

Helping Staff to Change

Change is a constant in the business world today and, every increasingly, staff are expected to cope with uncertainty. Successful change is about helping people adapt. If staff can be helped to embrace, rather than resist new ways, the more likely change...

Creating a Project Team Environment When the Team is Dispersed

A key responsibility of a project manager is to create an effective project team environment. This can be especially challenging if the team is made up of a variety of team members dispersed across various sites and possibly global locations.