Project Management is important for businesses to have a competitive edge and deliver better project results – most would agree with this statement. What a lot do not agree with is the question whether project management is art or science. The simple answer is: It’s both. 

What sounds like the beginning of a pretty lame joke is actually a well-known business and scrum ‘fable’ and used to be part of the official scrum guide until 2011. 

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Mentoring can play a vital role for an individual’s career, but also for the success of the whole organization. Implementing a formal or informal mentoring program can help new project managers integrate into the company faster and better and improve their skills.

We are excited to announce a new InLoox member: Carola Moresche joined the InLoox marketing team in May and is taking over the position of Head of International Marketing and PR previously held by Ariane von Berg. Carola is responsible for all the marketing activities in the English-speaking region. We asked her some questions to get to know her better.

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Many are familiar with financial portfolios (stocks, bond, cash equivalents etc.), but did you know that you can also manage your projects together in a portfolio? Read more about the benefits of portfolio management and how you can implement it into your organization. 

In the previous videos we explained how to create a mind map and work packages with InLoox PM 8. In this video tutorial, we will show you how to convert the activities and tasks that you have already identified into a project plan. 

There are many different leadership styles, but if you want to facilitate innovation and creativity in your organization the most important trait to have as a leader is positivity. It sounds simple enough, however, in today’s fast changing business world positive leadership often has to take a backseat to ‘hard goals’. 

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In hindsight, every project offers you some insights – positive as well as negative ones. You should use this treasure trove of experience to optimize future projects and improve performances. In agile project management this is called ‘retrospective’.

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Nothing exists in a vacuum. Everything in our world, universe and even galaxy, is somehow interconnected and dependent on each other and thus, things can become very complex very quickly. Which is why we need ‘systems thinking’ to deal with these complex issues. 

Kanban is a popular agile PM method. This new tutorial video explains how you can work with this method in InLoox PM 8.