There’s a big focus on the skills that apply to individual project managers and contributors. But what about your project team as a whole? Your team needs to possess some essential skills in order to ensure their productivity, sanity, and the successful delivery of projects. Project teams are generally comprised of a variety of specialists...
8 Tips for New Team Leaders
Whether you’re heading up a new team or taking the reins of an existing one, leading a team for the first time can be daunting. There’s no bedrock of personal experience to build on. If you’re a first-time team leader then you’re probably either relishing the challenge or considering running for the door—or a bit...
Q&A With Ben White, LiquidPlanner’s New Account Coordinator
Accountability is just one quality that Ben White appreciates in his coworkers. As an Account Coordinator, Ben brings a passion for sales and customer care to the LiquidPlanner sales team. Read on to pick up some focusing tips and see which LP team member swayed Ben to say “I do” (so to speak). Briefly describe...
Q&A With Santiago Rodriguez, LiquidPlanner’s New Account Coordinator
It’s a bit of a language-fest to hear Santiago Rodriguez speaking to LiquidPlanner customers. The native of Colombia is fluent in Spanish, French, and English—and he uses all of them in his job. Read on to learn more about LiquidPlanner’s newest Account Coordinator. LiquidPlanner: Briefly describe an average work day for you at LiquidPlanner: Santiago:...
7 Ways Exercise Improves Your Work Life
We all know that regular exercise is good for overall health and well-being—from looking and feeling good to sleeping well. But there’s more. Exercise does great things for your work life, too. Whether you’re throwing a Frisbee, talking a walk or stretching in yoga class, exercise builds laser-sharp focus, improves your mood and increases productivity....
10 Killer Interview Questions for Hiring Project Managers
(Editor’s Note: We recently published an updated version of this article, where we asked recruiters for their favorite PM interview questions. Check it out.) Interviewing project management for open positions is something I have had to do but I don’t find it easy. How do you know what to ask? And how do you use what is...
Defense Against the Dark Art of Estimation Bargaining
We developers spend a lot of time learning about programming. Unless you work on project management software, you probably don’t spend a lot of time thinking what happens outside the realm of programming. However, you need to take this seriously, as there are a lot of conversations going on all around us, and they define what we...
Join One of Our New LiquidPlanner Webinars!
Learning a new online project management takes commitment—we get that. To help our customers start using LiquidPlanner to its fullest potential, we’ve set up our training materials to provide people with the information they need for exactly where they are in the learning process. To do this, we have three new webinars for customers at...
LiquidPlanner Favorite Feature: My Work
There are a lot of reasons to love LiquidPlanner. Yet we all have our favorites—features we hold near and dear to our project managing hearts. Here, our Support Specialist Zareen Charna shares her favorite LiquidPlanner feature: Project managers and anyone managing tasks use their My Work tab to see their task items in priority order,...
6 Ways Online Project Management Tools Improve Collaboration
The best possible project outcome requires effective collaboration. But once a project team grows beyond two guys sitting across a desk from one another, this collaboration becomes increasingly hard to achieve. Project Managers can soon become full-time Project Administrators, spending all their time feeding the team with information that only they can access from their...