It’s a constant question: How do you inspire your team to better perform? Everyone seems to have their own varying ideas of how to best motivate a team. We’re not suggesting that when you finish reading this you’ll have the perfect formula to magically make...
We've all seen it in sports, work, the way your friends compete with you on the court, field or trail. But in project management, sandbagging refers to the practice of holding back positive results until the end of a project and then taking a big...
Big projects are different from smaller ones. It isn’t just that they involve more moving parts, the real difference has to do with the limitations of the human mind. Experienced project managers can get their minds around smaller projects. They have an intuitive sense of how...
Cost of Goods Sold- or COGS for short- should be familiar to anyone who runs a company or works in project management. It’s that greedy number that is always eating into a project’s profit margins. Most of the time it seems that our COGS number...
People have some peculiar traits. They aren’t always content just to do as they’re told. They like to know the reasons for doing A rather than B. They want to know how the whole job is progressing, and whether they themselves are doing good work....
Proper perspective, in business and in life, is something that everyone struggles with on occasion. Maintaining a clear and accurate view of any situation, particularly under stress, can be an important to a successful outcome from a project or situation. However, sometimes we catch ourselves...
When a company undertakes a project, it is common to divide up operations and accounting where project managers are responsible for running the projects, and finance is responsible for tallying up the profits and the losses. However when taking on a new project we’ve discovered...
At Setpoint, our Project Management for Profit system is built on data, regular, accurate, timely information about COGS, expenditures and labor hours. To make timely decisions, we also rely on a steady inflow of related data—for example customer expectations, potential change orders, possible price supplier changes, progress of...
We are proud to sponsor the 2017 ASTM F24 Conference, and ASTM, an organization that helps safeguard the experiences we deliver in the industry. ASTM Committees are made up of dedicated volunteers from industry, consumers, government and academia. As Setpoint, safety is paramount and deeply embedded...
