Multigenerational Teams and Their Impact in Project Management While project managers wrestle on a daily basis with budgets, schedules and team issues, for the first time in many decades a new element of diversity is being addressed—the management of multigenerational teams.

The Cultural Challenges of Matrix Organizations Managing projects in any type of organization is not an easy task. Structures vary from functional to projectized to a blend of both, the matrix organization.

The Risk of Miscommunication in a Global Project Team  Project managers should count risk identification and prevention among their most important activities. In a global project context, risk management becomes more complex. Multicultural teams should pay particular attention to the risk of miscommunication.

Mitigating Overruns: Survey Says… Unplanned delays and project overruns are two critical challenges that continue to haunt even the most competent project managers. Are there tools or techniques to mitigate or avoid these critical problems? We polled project management professionals from around the world to find out.

Ways to Handle Conflict on Multicultural Teams Organizations can find and select the best talent from anywhere in the world. So even if their teams are co-located, project managers must work with multicultural teams now more than ever. Multicultural environments can amplify the levels of conflict that already exist in some organizations. In any conflict, by definition, two or more parties disagree.