The devil is in the details is a saying that project managers are likely to know more intimately than most. When you manage a project for efficiency, accuracy, and speed, it’s not just about managing the details and flow of the project, it’s about managing the details of the details. This is the time spent on individual tasks and how productively those tasks are accomplished. And it’s in these micro details that some of the real, breakthrough results in productivity can be achieved. Here are four steps on how to do it, and links to a sampling of People-OnTheGo workshops to help you get there.

Project stakeholders can be helpful, obstructionist and almost anything in between – but for most stakeholders, how you deal with this is largely up to you! The only certainty is your stakeholders are not about to go away and ‘leave you in peace’……
There are three basic ways to deal with stakeholders

You only have so many hours in the day, and precious few of them are your free time. So while you want to learn more about project management — either to pick up new skills or sharpen the ones you’ve already developed — you don’t have unlimited hours to read every book on the subject. Which project management books are best for your experience level? Which are actually relevant to the work you do every day? And most importantly, will they put you to sleep mid-sentence?

While we posted some of our team’s must-read project management books in this article, we’ve since expanded our library with a few new favorites. Take a look and pick up a few to add to your work bookshelf.