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Project Management Guidelines (Part 1) - What We Can Learn From Project Failures

Inloox

A good project manager knows that some developments are out of their control. The only way to relieve that stress is to remain calm about the situation and take action to keep the situation under control. In this article, we present 8 project management guidelines that help you deal with failures.

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Current State and Future Prospects of Scrum and Agile Development in Japan

Scrum.org

This interest from people around me encouraged me to do some research and thinking on the subject, which I have summarized in this article.( Teams that have the right degree of peer-pressure to keep each other accountable are less likely to suffer from collective under performance, and to fall back to top-down control later.

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IBM Project Manager Certificate: My Student Review

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The materials include: Training videos – you can control the playback speed, hurrah! This article first appeared at Rebel's Guide to Project Management If you are aiming for an IT job, you’d be better off taking that course. The modules do feel slightly disjointed as if they have been put together from other courses.

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Agile Laws & Distributed Teams: From Conway to Goodhart to Parkinson

Scrum.org

The following article addresses some of the most current impediments to achieving agility by revisiting several agile laws that are particularly relevant to distributed agile teams. ?? Do you want to get this article in your inbox? Join the 25th Hands-on Agile meetup on August 20, 2020, to explore the virtual Ecocycle Planning.

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Why People Are the Most Important Resource in the Company

Inloox

We've all heard phrases like "our resources are depleted" However, in HR, phrases like "we need more resources for our software engineering team" are also quite common. " In this article, we’ll clarify the question of whether and how to distinguish material resources from people. What is a resource?

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10 GDPR Questions to Ask Before Starting a New Project

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In this article I’ll look at 10 questions managers should ask themselves before starting a new project. You should know that I’m not a lawyer and this article does not in any way constitute legal advice or business advice. Then you can appropriately plan the controls and actions required to move the project forward.

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Agile vs Waterfall: Embracing the Hybrid Project Revolution

NimbleWork

Comprehensive requirements and design documentation provide a high level of predictability and control. Following the report, and according to the observation of a notable software engineering scholar and academic Bertrand Meyer, it seems evident that Agile is not necessarily seen as a negation of the traditional waterfall approach.

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