• Top Management Magazines
  • MIT Sloan Management Review
  • Harvard Business Review
• Free Digital Magazines on Contemporary Project Management
  • Project Times
  • Project Manager Today
  • PM Column
  • PMWorld 360 Magazine
• Leading Product Management Magazines
  • Product Management Today
  • Lean Magazine

Top Management Magazines

Our favorite business magazines – MIT Sloan Management Review and Harvard Business Review are top editions we recommend project managers to dive for both scientific insights and inspiration.

MIT Sloan Management Review — Management research and ideas to transform how people lead and innovate

MIT Sloan Management Review is the top business edition relevant for project managers, as it rounds up insights about digital leadership, artificial intelligence and business strategy, and strategic measurement. Importantly, the magazine has been leading the discourse in management advances since 1959 and remains the place where global thought leaders in project management share their knowledge and experience.

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Harvard Business Review — Ideas and Advice for Leaders

Harvard Business Review is a reliable and creative source of management inspiration that covers topics in many areas and encourages you to get the best in management thinking. The popular topics in HBR include Managing Yourself, Leadership, Strategy, Managing Teams, Gender, Innovation, Work-life Balance.

Must-read: How to Make Sure Agile Teams Can Work Together

Free Digital Magazines on Contemporary Project Management

While the magazines mentioned above are on the mountaintop of business and management press, you have to pay some money to get access to their full knowledgebase of articles. Online magazines mentioned below, though, do not require you to do so. As a matter of fact, they are more down-to-earth to project management challenges that beset the domain and store practical hands-on information.

PM Column — A Creative Digital Project Management Magazine

PM Column is the new wave of project management tips, lessons, and recommendations. The magazine pursues a mission to lay out project management content in the most creative and clean way possible, providing top-notch actionable advice for project management professionals. In 2019, PM Column has been included in the Top 50 Project Management Blogs, according to Feedspot.

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Project Times — Online Resources for Project Managers

Project Times has more than a thousand articles on project management in addition to webinars, templates, whitepapers, and job board. As a registered mark of the Project Management Institute, it has become the ultimate destination for the ever-growing PM community.

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Project Manager Today — The Leading Independent Magazine for Project Managers

PM Today is an elite print (and digital) UK edition for project managers, delivering high-quality content on various project management topics. The beauty of PM Today is in its thought-provoking analysis of project management trends and issues arising in the PM domain every day. It is the best digital project management magazine in a class of its own that brings news to project managers.

PMWorld 360 Magazine — Project Management Articles Online

PMWorld 360 Magazine is a new independent initiative of CIO’s contributor, Moira Alexander. The magazine’s certified contributors in project management and related professions deliver tips on what’s important to succeed as a project manager, project portfolio manager, or program manager. If you’re on the lookout for recent news in the project management space, PMWorld 360 should be a destination.

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Leading Product Management Magazines

As many organizations shift to a product-oriented agile mindset and project managers become product owners, the following magazines can be of interest.

Product Management Today — Industry Insights Your Peers Are Reading

Product Management Today has a specific focus on products rather than projects. It uncovers the paths on how to get into product management and thrive in the profession. What distinguishes it from other magazines are case studies, exhibiting champions in product management.  

Must-read: How Product Teams can Build Trust with Internal Teams

Lean Magazine

Lean Magazine is a creative perspective on lean management principles organized into articles by Gustav Bergman from Softhouse Consulting. It is Scandinavia’s noted magazine focused on lean and agile with issues presenting up-to-date insights into proven methodologies, including interviews with the leading international experts in the Agile field.

Must-read: From Predict-and-Plan to Sense-and-Respond — A State-of-the-Art View on Agile Leadership

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At this point, I recommend referring to these trusted project management sources where you’ll definitely find what you’ve been looking for — pure inspiration, joy, knowledge, and words of encouragement. Apart from the list of these good old sources below, you’ll find PM articles worth reading right here, right now. So here’s my top six.

CIO | Project Management | News, how-tos, features, reviews, and videos

For me, there’s no better place to go hunt for a solid piece of project management news or advice than CIO. Its project management column is written by the word wizards whose messages are clear and recommendations relevant. There you can find leadership lessons, digital transformation tips, and beautifully crafted reviews of project management applications. If you don’t feel like reading, you can go watch their expert videos or listen to the interviews with top project performers.

Must-read: How AI could revolutionize project management

Harvard Business Review | Project Management Digital Archive

HBR is one of my favorite professional project management sources I read when I feel that my level of motivation gets depleted. It honestly reveals the challenges of project manager’s role in a simple but witty manner. The only downside of HBR, in contrast to CIO, is a limited number of articles you can read without a paid subscription. But even reading three free articles a month can fill in your reservoir of inspiration and motivate you. It’s mesmerizing how HBR’s contributors can fit an impressive amount of information into their clear-cut recommendations.

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McKinsey | Project Management Blog

There’s still time in our lives when we want to dip our toes in the waters of research and stay away from lyrics about project management. In this case, McKinsey sounds like a perfect choice. With a thousand of experts and consultants around the world, this group of researchers creates different types of content worth even your single minute of free time. McKinsey’s project management podcasts, articles, and white papers are always backed up by their own research and real experience gained through cooperation with the world’s top companies. What I like most about McKinsey is their way to present content — making it exclusively readable. This website won’t get you irritated with advertisements or irrelevant news. Vice versa, McKinsey prefers that you stay focused on what you’re reading.

Must-read: Managing big projects: The lessons of experience

Project Manager Today

PM Today is one out of many editions focused on project management that sees the world in a printed version. It’s a good old source of inspiration for project managers who prefer the smell of printing ink to computers and smartphones. Generally, PM Today uncovers current project management trends and analyses how digital transformation affects the domain. What makes it one of the best sources of inspiration for project managers is loyalty to the subject and its target audience.

A Girl’s Guide to Project Management

Written by Elizabeth Harrin, this source is probably one of the liveliest project management blogs on the web and the first in a class of its own speaking to the audience of women. A Girl’s Guide to PM regularly offers valuable information to its readers in the form of independent software reviews, project management books, PM conferences to visit, and other practical information you need to thrive in the domain of project management.

Must-read: 15 tested and practical tips from women in project management

The Digital Project Manager

Enriched with the power of over 40 professional certified project management contributors, this platform is one of the newest and fastest growing digital project management websites in the world. It offers how-to guidelines, reflects light upon PM tools and presents insights key to project success. What distinguishes DPM from other listed sources of inspiration is a beautiful, modern, and user-friendly design.

Must-read: How to identify and avoid scope creep

Toptal Projects Blog

The Toptal Projects Blog is best for inspiration when it comes to the current best practices, tricks, and state of knowledge in Project Management and Agile leadership. The articles are penned by the professional network of Toptal project managers who share their experience and make the domain more tangible.

Must-read: How to prevent and manage scope creep

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