You say that you think things through when setting your goals. But, are you actually being smart about it?If businesses were to set their primary goal, it would boil down to something like: “Earn as much profit as possible.” However, if you were to give this task to a new employee (and leave it at ...
How to Master Project Management with a Single ToolJumping from one tool to another can be a huge energy drainer. Stop wasting your energy trying to be productive. Instead, choose one centralised hub that will help you master the art of project management.As a fully-fledged project manager, you’ve ...
Change can be hard to swallow, especially if your team isn’t familiar with the benefits it brings. Be proactive and help your team realize that a new project management tool is not a means of control but a perfect way to move the business forward.Propelled by the idea that one tool would minimize multitasking ...
Your creative process is halted because you’re not getting good feedback from clients. Likes and dislikes aren’t getting you closer to finishing project. Worse still, you’re wasting too much time waiting for an email that tells you very little about what’s really important.You have been using ...
Rational Unified Process is the ultimate guide for assigning tasks and responsibilities within a development organization and developing high-quality software that meets the needs and requirements of its users. It was initially created by the Rational Software Corporation which IBM bought out in 2003 ...
Big companies generally have a problem of being too slow, with too much WIP, and too many features in the backlog.Traditionally, big companies would need 6 months for gathering requirements, another 6 for development and testing, plus worry if they have an opening in their development schedule and capital ...
"Extreme project management is the art and science of facilitating and managing the flow of thoughts, emotions, and interactions in a way that produces valued outcomes under turbulent and complex conditions: those that feature high speed, high change, high uncertainty, and high stress." - Doug DeCarlo ...
Adaptive project management is a structured and systematic process that allows you to gradually improve your decisions and practices, by learning from outcomes of the decisions that you took at previous stages in the project. As the name suggests, project management process changes and adapts to the ...
Today, Agile is such a buzzword that even teams outside software development try to incorporate it into their workflow. But Agile is not for everyone.For example, a marketing agency can never implement Agile, because clients don't want to pay for a half-finished marketing campaign and iterate. There ...
Agile is an approach to project management that favors responding to change over careful planning. Agile is not a methodology but a set of principles (as defined in the Agile Manifesto in 2001) that suggests how we should approach project management.There are two ways you can manage software development ...
The waterfall is a project management approach where a project is completed in distinct stages and moved step by step toward ultimate release to consumers. You make a big plan upfront and then execute linearly, hoping there won’t be any changes in the plan.When you take traditional project management ...
Traditional project management is a universal practice that includes a set of developed techniques used for planning, estimating, and controlling activities. The aim of those techniques is to reach the desired result on time, within budget, and in accordance with specifications.Traditional project management ...