Blog Posts About Project Management

How To Improve Your Cross-Functional Team Communication

Reinforcing effective cross-functional communication Regardless of the size of your organization, effective cross-functional communication is vital to ensuring your departments can work together as a cohesive unit. It can be common, however, for many businesses to experience levels of tension as individual team members subconsciously favor their departmental interests over the bigger-picture needs of the […]

How to Ensure Design and Development Work in Tandem

Launching a website or application is no small feat. Looming deadlines and tight budget constraints can make the job difficult—even if everything goes right the first time. Behind the scenes, if designers and developers are not working together you may end up missing your deadline, forcing you to either overspend or, even worse, launch a […]

Talent Spotlight on Jon Hu, Project Management Team Lead

Talent Spotlight is a regular feature profiling the employees of UpTop. See the Talent Spotlight archive for more profiles. What is your role at UpTop and what projects do you work on? I am a Senior Project Manager, as well as the Project Management Team Lead here at UpTop. While the majority of my time is spent doing […]

4 Things to Keep in Mind as a Project Manager

Any significant project has a variety of requirements and dependencies that call on numerous individuals with varying skill sets. But, ultimately, when push comes to shove, the success or failure of any project rests on the project manager’s shoulders because of the authority and overall project visibility they have. In other words, the buck stops […]

Discovery: Why “Why?” is a Critical Question for Long-term Success

Imagine this: you’re about to embark on a new project, and you find yourself in a room full of people who have been thinking for a long time about the work you’re about begin. Sometimes they say things like: “It’s just THIS. We already have a working version of it—which you can look at—and there […]