Articles by Ravindra Wankar

Measuring Team Productivity in Projects: A Complete Guide

A complete guide to team productivity in project management framework, KPIs, and tools to measure, track, and improve delivery.

Dealing with Distractions at the Workplace

That the human race is battling with distractions is an understatement. A popular NYC restaurant reviewed their surveillance videos from 2004 and 2014 and found a staggering difference in the average time it takes to service a customer. Following their research, they found that the average time that a customer spent in the restaurant from start to finish in 2004 was 1 hour and …

INFOGRAPHIC: 5 Tips on Delegating Tasks to Underperforming Employees

INFOGRAPHIC: 5 Tips on Delegating Tasks to Underperforming Employees

The Importance of Creating a Risk Response Team

When we talk about project management, we also talk about risk management.

Project Management Software Purchase Trends in age of Digital Transformation

The Project Management discipline has been going through a wave of disruption over the last decade. The globalization of business prompted the collaboration narrative, the rise of cloud tech disrupted traditional PM technology with the onset of SaaS-based project management software. Social project management has made its way into project management systems and simplified the user experience and improved adoption. The digital transformation push in enterprises is going to lead project management to the next level of evolution. While the holistic picture looks rosy, there are some worrying patterns:

INFOGRAPHIC: 5 Things To Prepare Before You Start Any Project

INFOGRAPHIC: 5 Things To Prepare Before You Start Any Project

INFOGRAPHIC: Put a Stop to Time Wasters with Effective Project Management

INFOGRAPHIC: Working in a New Team – Tips for Rookie Project Managers

INFOGRAPHIC: Working in a New Team – Tips for Rookie Project Managers

6 Hacks to Effective Brainstorming with a Remote Team

6 Hacks to Effective Brainstorming with a Remote Team using the best project portfolio management (PPM) solution, Celoxis.

INFOGRAPHIC: 5 Ways Project Managers Can Help Their Team Handle Workload

INFOGRAPHIC: 5 Ways Project Managers Can Help Their Team Handle Workload

INFOGRAPHIC: 5 Axioms of Effective Project Management

INFOGRAPHIC: 5 Axioms of Effective Project Management

Gems of Advice for Millennial Project Managers

Also known as Generation Y, born between the 1980s and the early 2000s, millennials have started dominating our workforce. More than one-in-three American workers today are millennials (adults ages 18 to 34 in 2015), and in 2015 they surpassed Generation X to become the largest share of the American workforce, according to a Pew Research Centre analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data (Source) . A study published by EY in 2013 summarizes that Millennials are tech-savvy, but aren’t great team players. Gen X-ers are entrepreneurial-thinking, but rank low on executive presence. And last, but not least, Boomers are team players and loyal, but don’t adapt so well (Source). With such a dramatic shift in persona at the workplace, the traditional project management philosophies may not be feasible any more, when it comes to getting results. Millennials on the other hand need to adapt to be successful in a project management career.