Because teamwork is more than communication. You workday cannot be driven round by incoming communications distracting you, or important information transmitted with interruption or corruption. You need quiet self-work time to think things through, to design strategies, and to feed into teamwork. …

Have you counted the number of productivity tools you use at work? Email, conference call service (e.g. Zoom), instant chat (e.g. Slack, MS Teams, Whatsapp), work phone, work management platform (e.g. Monday.com, Wrike), CRM (e.g. Salesforce), cloud/shared drive, plus your area’s specialist tools. It’s a packed toolkit, and it looks…

When was the last time you felt in control of all the projects you were working on? Such that you were making major contributions to the projects without dreading deadlines? Such that you had a good grasp of the projects’ developments and could plan ahead? It’s perfectly normal if that…

You may disagree that you have “perfect communication”. Perfect is a goal that humankind aims for, but never reaches. But your work communications setup is miles better than what it used to be even just five years ago, and you probably have already adopted the best tools and practices out…

We are going to borrow the punchline from another software company’s advert (Asana’s, to be clear), since it corresponds so well with this topic: “You can track where your pizza order is and when it will arrive at your door, so why not your project?” Indeed. Data helps us plan…

What is the hardest part in juggling multiple projects? Not missing the slightest move. The moment you miss a single task deadline, your tightly but perfectly choreographed work schedule goes into disarray and other deadlines will also drop. …

If you are attracted by this article’s title, you are likely to be a stakeholder/contributor in multiple projects, in parallel. And you find yourself having space for productivity growth, but are frustrated by the project teams’ subpar project organisational capabilities. As a result you are struggling to juggle the projects. …

You could be an executive sponsoring projects, a head of a department that support multiple projects by nature, or a manager offering subject matter expertise in a red-hot area. In either case, you are working on many projects in parallel as a stakeholder (or contributor). You want to contribute great…

There are always bad eggs in a basket. You could be running a crack team on a high profile project, but get constantly stumbled over by a handful of uninterested stakeholders. …