Agile Coach
MAY 9, 2017
Recently I was asked to write a guest post for a friend of mine, Luis Goncalves’s blog. While writing the post, I remembered that a number of years ago I did a presentation about business agility after bringing this topic up at a local agile coach camp. Business agility from Jason Little. My topic at coach camp was “ Focus on Success over ‘Being Agile ‘” and I remember more or less being accused of not understanding agile.
LiquidPlanner
MAY 9, 2017
“Dear Elizabeth: I want to get better at measuring the success (or failure) of my projects. What project management metrics should I be focusing on? And how can I use these metrics to improve project performance?”. OK. I don’t mean to start off by being controversial, but you’re asking the wrong person. It’s your project stakeholders who decide if your project is a success or a failure.
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Wrike
MAY 9, 2017
If you’re trying to plan your project calendar for the next month, quarter, or even year, you might be debating the best method to capture your madness. . You’re probably looking for a calendar that can capture all your tasks, their deadlines, assignees and show you where you have some wiggle room. . As long as you’ve graduated past the classic (but inefficient) pen, paper, and ruler approach, there are three ways to build a digital project manager calendar that workers rely on during project pl
Herding Cats
MAY 9, 2017
It seems of late there is a campaign in the software development community, especially in the agile community where ignorance is a virtue. Ignorance of the microeconomics of decision making. The ignorance that all project work contains uncertainty, that uncertainty is of two kinds - reducible and irreducible, and that uncertainty is the source of risk. .
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ActiveCollab
MAY 9, 2017
Search for several hours “teamwork definition” and you’ll quickly realize that there isn’t a commonly agreed definition on what is teamwork actually. While many authors emphasize the importance of teamwork, they don’t provide a clear and straightforward definition of teamwork. Here are a handful of definitions we managed to find: Teamwork is the process of working collaboratively with a group of people in order to achieve a goal.
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The Digital Project Manager
MAY 9, 2017
Why is it that that so many IT projects fail? According to IBM only 40% of IT projects meet schedule, budget, and quality goals. Asking. The post Why Do Projects Fail? Stories of Project Failure, And Lessons Learned appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.
TimeCamp
MAY 9, 2017
”Time is money” – there is probably no better known saying than this one. Briefly: time is a resource which is valuable, so it’s advice able to do things as quickly as possible, spend time and effort on things that get the results we are looking for. Does it sound familiar? Of course, it does. […].
Brightwork
MAY 9, 2017
As I sat down to put write this blog post, my mind ran to the poster on the right that one my colleagues shared with me a few years ago. I know it’s a bit facetious, but it does make you think about the purpose and function of meetings in our work day. I’m sure we’ve all been there many times. We’ve agonized through a meeting we had no business attending.
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