The Art of Mastering Project Surprises: Easy Strategies for Managing Unplanned Work By: Steve McBroom, Founder, Traxidy (Click to follow me on LinkedIn) In this post, we will review the importance of working through project issues and the associated unplanned project tasks, as they arise, and provide effective strategies to manage them. Effective project management involves monitoring progress closely and adjusting as needed to ensure the project meets its objectives. In agile projects, adjustments are expected with a more open-ended timeframe of scope and schedule. With a w ..read more

3 Leading Indicators That Your Project is in Trouble By: Steve McBroom, CEO, Traxidy (Click to follow on LinkedIn) Monitoring key project metrics and trends can provide you with a clear view of the project road ahead and whether your project is under control, and continuing on the expected road, or is heading off a cliff. Each of the following are leading indicators and project performance metrics. They provide an opportunity to react before a major correction to the plan is needed. Each of these, when available in real-time, can provide the Project Manager (PM) and the Spon ..read more

Go Solo Magazine Interviews Traxidy CEO Go Solo Magazine Article September 28, 2022 Interested in starting your own entrepreneurial journey in business development but unsure what to expect? Then read up on our interview with Steve McBroom, Founder and CEO of Traxidy. What's your business, and who are your customers? Traxidy provides easy-to-use project work tracking software for Project Managers (PMs), project leaders, and teams to improve efficiency and increase project success. The intuitive project workspace offers an easier way to track, manage, collaborate ..read more

2023 Trends: 4 Ways for Project Managers to be More Successful By: Steve McBroom, CEO, Traxidy Organizations increasingly continue to rely on project-based work to drive innovation and achieve strategic objectives. As businesses and Project Managers rely on technology to manage their projects, automated project management tools will become increasingly important in ensuring project success. Technology continues to provide an overcrowded set of project management tools and environments with a good purpose in mind, however it can be too complicated and can be so inclusive and pro ..read more

Automated RAID logs & Action logs – Beyond Spreadsheets (Part 2) Steve McBroom, CEO, Traxidy Follow me on LinkedIn A RAID log and Action log, provides a way to track, manage and report on all of the Risks, Actions, Issues and Decisions throughout your project lifecycle. We started in Part 1, explaining what a project RAID log and Action log is. How they can be used by anyone to record, manage and control the smaller and key work items that support the project schedule and plan. Project work items like actions, risks and issues often arise daily during a project, and need ..read more

Go Solo Magazine Interviews Traxidy CEO Go Solo Magazine Article September 28, 2022 Interested in starting your own entrepreneurial journey in business development but unsure what to expect? Then read up on our interview with Steve McBroom, Founder and CEO of Traxidy. What's your business, and who are your customers? Traxidy provides easy-to-use project work tracking software for Project Managers (PMs), project leaders, and teams to improve efficiency and increase project success. The intuitive project workspace offers an easier way to track, manage, collaborate ..read more

Automated RAID logs & Action logs – Beyond Spreadsheets (Part 2) Steve McBroom, CEO, Traxidy Follow me on LinkedIn A RAID log and Action log, provides a way to track, manage and report on all of the Risks, Actions, Issues and Decisions throughout your project lifecycle. We started in Part 1, explaining what a project RAID log and Action log is. How they can be used by anyone to record, manage and control the smaller and key work items that support the project schedule and plan. Project work items like actions, risks and issues often arise daily during a project, and need ..read more

Critical Steps to Handling Project Progress Reporting By: Steve McBroom, CEO, Traxidy (Click to follow me on LinkedIn) How a Project Manager handles the progress reporting of project work items, from the team members, is crucial to project success and the relationships with the team members. Trust is something that can get a Project Manager into trouble. Respect is something the Project Manager (PM) earns through their interaction with team members and key stakeholders. How a PM manages that trust with their team members can gain them respect. When a team member is entrusted ..read more

Project Status Reports: Time Wasted or Time Well Spent? By: Steve McBroom, CEO, Traxidy (Click to follow me on LinkedIn) Project status reports provide a useful communication tool for multiple audiences on how your project is progressing. You may have to use the same template you’ve always used, or you may have started to deliver a new report based on a new template for a new audience or client. Either way, the project status report should always be judged by the value of the information versus the amount of time you may have spent to produce the report. We have some importa ..read more

Automated RAID logs & Action logs versus Spreadsheets (Part 1) Steve McBroom, CEO, Traxidy Follow me on LinkedIn A RAID log is the best place for Project Managers (PM) to organize, track and manage all the smaller, but key work items that support the project schedule and plan. Items like actions and dates, risks and issues that arise almost daily, during a project. A plan never executes perfectly. These are mostly unplanned work items that come up as you go about managing the entire project from the initial planning through execution and close. If you don’t manage these ..read more