If you aren't used to it, remote work can be difficult to adjust to under normal circumstances and the next few weeks will not be normal circumstances. Here are just a few tips to help make the day more productive.

And speaking of assumptions, do not make any or assign motivations to anyone's behavior. Whether a missed deadline or a uncharacteristically sharp email, give everyone the benefit of the doubt because the time will come when you will need it from them.

Circumstances require that we withdraw from each other physically at a time when we need support more than ever. Frequent notes just to check in might be what everyone needs.

As with PM software, the tools that you use to communicate with your team should support the team's process and not dictate it.

PM Minutes this week will focus on simple tips for project managers, or anyone, working remote for the first time.

The contractor may not have your technical resources, and you do not have the fund accounting expertise, but together you can share the opportunity and the benefit of winning the contract.

To accept or ignore a risk is to basically bake it into the baseline project plan. It's to identify that the risk exists but to choose to not change the plan and only benefit from the opportunity if it happens.

To exploit an opportunity is to attempt to eliminate any uncertainty in achieving a positive outcome.

Enhancing a positive risk seeks to increase the amount of exposure to a positive risk.

There is the potential for positive risks in a project as well. Positive risks are generally referred to as opportunities and, just like negative risks, there are four potential response strategies. These strategies seek to accomplish the same basic goals of negative risk responses, but to the benefit of the project.