Highly performing teams are what we all strive for. Working in a close-knit, professional group is a much nicer and rewarding experience than working with people who don’t get on, don’t communicate and don’t function as a team.

But how do we lead teams from that dysfunctional state where they are little more than a group of people in the same room to a fully operational, highly performing team? Dr Bruce Tuckman has the answer. Actually he found it quite a long time ago.

All projects suffer from the odd thing that goes wrong: these are project issues and they are so common that the project management literature has dedicated reams of space about writing about how to deal with them.

But it’s not all straightforward. In this article we’ll look at 5 ways that issue management can go wrong. It doesn’t take much for your carefully prepared issue management processes to be thrown off course!

The right tool for the right job goes the old adage, but knowing exactly what criteria you should consider and how to go about evaluating each of the project management (PM) tools at your disposal can be time-consuming and even frustrating. So we've taken some of the legwork out of it by offering some key considerations, broken down into three primary categories that should be included in your evaluation.