Myths about project management busted by hard facts

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37% 70% Even at corporate giants such as IBM, only 56% of project management specialists hold a certificate 47% of workers called meetings the No.1 time-waster at the office 30% of the time spent in long meetings is described as time wasted” by employees 75% of bosses report happier remote employees of businesses report that remote workers are more engaged 2/3 of CIOs see PMI certification as a valuable benefit, but not a necessity 70% of accidental project managers have no special training or certificate at hand In fact, a project manager spends 90% of his time communicating 10% of working hours were saved by Tipton Communications, a full-service marketing agency, thanks to using cloud PM soſtware for project administration Tim Harford, Financial Times columnist and author of Adapt: Why Success Always Starts With Failure enjoy how they can focus on work, not office policies 41% feel remote work saves time 29% feel more productive 10% Sources: wrike.com businessinsider.com cio.com businessjournal.gallup.com online.wsj.com batimes.com pmperspectives.org marketplace.pmi.org stanford.edu psycnet.apa.org salary.com maxwideman.com psychologytoday.com timharford.com sethgodin.typepad.com blog.linkedin.com badlanguage.net “Success comes through rapidly fixing our mistakes rather than getting things right the first time” Moving your projects to the cloud helps cut down on paperwork time Remote work makes employees happy Working remotely increases performance by at least 13% MYTHS ABOUT PROJECT MANAGEMENT BUSTED BY HARD FACTS MYTH 4 The term “failure” is exaggerated. If responded to correctly, it may be a link to future success. 30% FREQUENT MEETINGS ARE NECESSARY TO KEEP EVERYONE IN THE LOOP Share info briefs with your peers before the meetings to save time A productive meeting should last less than 30 minutes Try standup meetings.They are 34% shorter than sit-downs, yet just as efficient 1993 2007 Apple Newton, a PDA released in 1993, failed miserably with consumers. But several of its features became the basis for today's smartphone. In fact the Newton is a precursor that the iPhone was modeled on. MYTH 3 PROJECT MANAGEMENT IS PURE PAPERWORK MYTH 2 Myth 1: Remote collaboration is unproductive MYTH 1 REMOTE COLLABORATION IS UNPRODUCTIVE PROJECT MANAGEMENT CERTIFICATION IS A MUST MYTH 5 PROJECT FAILURES ARE FATAL 1. 2. 3. 13% PROJECT MANAGEMENT CERTIFICATION IS A MUST Myth 1: Remote collaboration is unproductive Myth 2: Project management certification is a MUST Myth 3: Project management is pure paperwork Myth 4: Frequent meetings are necessary to keep everyone in the loop 10 To refrain speakers from talking too long, one company in Florida had each of them hold a 10-pound medicine ball Myth 5: Project failures are fatal Experts say when you fail, you should call the reason by name to avoid making the same mistake twice. And make sure you learn your lessons from it. Project management software that makes life easier. Infographic brought to you by .
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You might hear a lot of misconceptions about project managers today: they're buried in paperwork, run constant lengthy team meetings, and so on. However, researches and stats prove different. Based on the results of multiple studies, this infographic from Wrike busts five most common project management myths and shares a couple of useful productivity hacks along the way.

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37%

70%

Even at corporate giants such as IBM, only 56% of project managementspecialists hold a certificate

47% of workers called meetings the No.1 time-waster at the office

30% of the time spent in long meetings is described as “time wasted” by employees

75%of bosses reporthappier remoteemployees

of businesses report that remote workers are more engaged

2/3 of CIOs see PMI certification as a valuable benefit, but not a necessity

70% of accidental project managers have no special training or certificate at hand

In fact, a project managerspends 90% of his timecommunicating

10% of working hours were saved by Tipton Communications, a full-service marketing agency, thanks to using cloud PM sostware for project administration

Tim Harford, Financial Times columnist and author of Adapt: Why Success Always Starts With Failure

enjoy how they can focus on work, not office policies

41% feel remote work saves time

29% feel more productive

10%

Sources: wrike.com businessinsider.com cio.com businessjournal.gallup.com online.wsj.com batimes.com pmperspectives.org marketplace.pmi.org stanford.edu psycnet.apa.org salary.com maxwideman.com psychologytoday.com timharford.com sethgodin.typepad.com blog.linkedin.com badlanguage.net

“Success comes through rapidly fixing our mistakes rather than getting things right the first time”

Moving your projects to the cloud helps cut down on paperwork time

Remote work makes employees happy

Working remotely increases performance by at least 13%

MYTHS ABOUT PROJECT MANAGEMENTBUSTED BY HARD FACTS

MYTH 4

The term “failure” is exaggerated. If responded to correctly, it may be a link to future success.

30%

FREQUENT MEETINGS ARE NECESSARY TO KEEP EVERYONE IN THE LOOP

Share info briefs with your peers before the meetings to save time

A productive meeting should last less than 30 minutes

Try standup meetings.They are 34% shorter than sit-downs, yet just as efficient

1993 2007

Apple Newton, a PDA released in 1993, failed miserably with consumers. But several of its features became the basis for today's smartphone. In fact the Newton is a precursor that the iPhone was modeled on.

MYTH 3 PROJECT MANAGEMENT IS PURE PAPERWORK

MYTH 2

Myth 1: Remote collaboration is unproductive

MYTH 1 REMOTE COLLABORATION IS UNPRODUCTIVE

PROJECT MANAGEMENT CERTIFICATION IS A MUST

MYTH 5 PROJECT FAILURES ARE FATAL

1.2.3.

13%

PROJECT MANAGEMENT CERTIFICATION IS A MUST

Myth 1: Remote collaboration is unproductive

Myth 2: Project management certification is a MUST

Myth 3: Project management is pure paperwork

Myth 4: Frequent meetings are necessary to keep everyone in the loop

10 To refrain speakers from talking too long, one company in Florida had each of them hold a 10-pound medicine ball

Myth 5: Project failures are fatal

Experts say when you fail, you should call the reason by name to avoid making the same mistake twice. And make sure you learn your lessons from it.

Project management software that makes life easier.Infographic brought to you by .