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125 Project Management Buzzwords

The IIL Blog

Agile team A cross-functional group of individuals (e.g., Product Owner, Scrum Master, Development team members) who work collaboratively to deliver value in an Agile project. Benchmarking Identifying a project performance indicator or practice, then assessing it against industry standards or best practices.

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Gantt Charts vs PERT Charts: Why Project Managers are Crazy about Them?

nTask

In this article, we will talk about what a PERT chart is and why the project managers of the organizational paradigm use it so often. PERT stands for the Project Evaluation and Review Technique. Well, that’s how the famous American engineer and management consultant, Harold Kerzner puts it in his book. Let’s begin. PERT chart.

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Velocity – Measure of Predictability and not Productivity

Agilemania

Note: I have written this article assuming the reader has working experience in Agile and know the concept of Velocity. ” In my experience, “Velocity” is used to measure the Productivity of the Development Team. Stable Velocity means a team is predictable on their delivery or, would say, outcome.

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Scrum 101: An Introduction to the World of Scrum Project Management

Agilemania

Scrum encourages teams to improve by reflecting on their success and losses. . Software development teams use scrum to deliver working software to the customers. For those who are still not aware of the concept of the scrum, we have everything you need in this article. So, read on to know about scrum. Who uses Scrum?

SCRUM 98
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4 Fallacious Reasons to Estimate and Why Those Are Fallacious

Herding Cats

There's a recent post titled Four Fallacious Reasons to Estimate. It lists the usual suspects for why those spending the money think they don't have to estimate how much they plan to spend when they'll be done producing the value they've been assigned to produce for that expenditure. Let's look at each one in more detail.

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Development Team Anti-Patterns

Scrum.org

TL; DR: Development Team Anti-Patterns. After covering the Scrum Master and the Product Owner, this article addresses Development Team anti-patterns, covering all Scrum Events as well as the Product Backlog artifact. Do you want to get this article in your inbox? The Role of the Development Team in Scrum.

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Running a Successful Creative Agency: New Business

Function Point

They give consultation and convert leads to customers while maintaining strong relationships with existing clients and partners. Business developers are the ones who prepare and respond to RFPs and vendors and search for new sales channels or opportunities that may fit the agency’s services.