About Project Management for Parents

I created Project Management for Parents during the global coronavirus pandemic in 2020. With schools, offices, and child-care centers closed, parents became teachers and full-time caregivers while still being expected to do their regular jobs. Families struggled, and many became overwhelmed by the workload.

As a project manager familiar with process improvement, I realized that many of the concepts I apply at work can also be valuable at home. Business concepts from project and change management can help us analyze our family lives to make them run more smoothly, whether during a crisis like a pandemic or just the normal rhythm of our daily lives.

I had been a working professional for many years and became a mother later in life.  I had always greatly enjoyed my career and wanted to continue it when I became a parent. My project-management training helped me juggle motherhood while working in corporate project management. The resource allocation and task-management methods I used at work, as well as techniques for building high-performing teams and managing change, became increasingly relevant at home. 

The beauty of project management is that the same principles can be applied to different types of projects, from rolling out a new consumer product to parenting. For example, scope documents help everyone agree to the work being done and action item lists help communicate what needs to be done when. What’s more, these same principles help improve family relationships by creating a positive environment, fostering communication, and encouraging children to think and act independently.

My hope is that you’ll apply these powerful principles to create a positive and productive environment at home so you can focus on the priorities that are most important, reduce stress, and get more done, while at the same time improving communication and having fun together as a family.