Ganttic

JULY 1, 2022

Almost every company needs some type of software development today. Good software can make a huge difference in how quickly and efficiently your business functions. Whether it’s for internal processes or external communication, sales, customer service, or payroll. How to do that? Let’s find out.

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Productivity Land

JUNE 7, 2023

Software development is a huge and growing industry, worth nearly half a trillion dollars in the U.S. If you’re joining the industry and starting your own software development business, you’ll want to get off to a good start by properly setting up your business entity.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 14, 2023

The agile manifesto includes principles such as “continuous delivery of valuable software”, “continuous attention to technical excellence” and “at regular intervals the team reflects on how to become more effective”. Either way, it is questionable that an agile process without underlying agile practices applied can be agile at all.

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Agilemania

MARCH 30, 2021

In the early 1990s, PC computing began to rise in organizations, but software development faced a hurdle. At that time, people used to call this crisis the “application delivery lag” or “the application development crisis.” Working software over comprehensive documentation.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Every project is different, of course, but the differences when managing software development projects are especially so, due to its distinct life-cycle processes. What Is Software Project Management? Software project management is the planning, managing and tracking of software development projects.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 25, 2024

Kanban history has informed everything from manufacturing to software development. For those unsure what kanban is, we’ll first explain the kanban system and then go into kanban history from its development to its uses in manufacturing, project management and software development.

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Wrike

MAY 11, 2023

In any project — whether it’s a piece of software, a new product or feature, or even a revamped process — your end goal is ultimately the same: to provide value. But the process of getting there can take different forms. With a traditional approach such as Waterfall, the process is sort of like one long line.

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Leading Agile

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

This one is for software developers. Ron Jeffries has an article describing how fundamental refactoring is in the basic professional practice of a software developer. Software development techniques are not the responsibility of the project manager, customer, Product Owner, or any other non-technical stakeholder.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 31, 2023

A bug is a problem with a feature or the functionality of the software, which needs to be fixed before it can be shipped to customers. A bug relies on a bug report to get that process started. A software tester will usually create the bug report and pass it on to the development team so they can understand and resolve the problem.

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Project Risk Coach

MARCH 21, 2022

Or perhaps your team said they had gathered the requirements, but in reality, the team had hastily rushed through the requirement process resulting in rework, missed deadlines, and another blown budget. If you want to improve your project success, improve your requirements processes. Poor requirements change process.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The term refers to how the project’s requirements or feature list grows over time without proper control. Scope creep is the more common term but you might hear both, especially if you are working in software development. It’s the process of ensuring changes are properly evaluated and incorporated into project plans.

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PM Basics

APRIL 24, 2018

Software Development Life Cycle is on every job description for a Project Manager. Everyone wants you to know how to develop software applications. Understanding of SDLC can make the whole process more efficient. When I googled “software development life cycle definition” I found different variants.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 2, 2024

Jira is project management software designed for agile software development teams. Yes, Jira’s kanban view is one of its most popular features and software developers commonly use it for sprint planning. If you’re looking for software that offers more than two project management views, use ProjectManager.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 2, 2022

How to create a rolling wave plan. The next step in the planning process is to create a project schedule for the first wave, in conjunction with the team. A rolling wave plan starts with knowing the major milestones or governance points. These become your wave points: the boundaries of each wave of planning.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Before we go into the process of IT incident management, let’s first understand what the term IT incident means and how IT incident management is defined. Then we’ll offer a few free IT incident management templates to help you control issues in your IT and how project management software can do what templates can’t.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 21, 2022

It wasn’t until I worked in IT as a project manager that I had a lot of contact with the release management process. My software projects needed releasing, so we had to follow the formal process and engage with the release manager to make sure that the bug fixes and new features got pushed to the production environment in a controlled way.

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Planio

JANUARY 29, 2024

But while there are plenty of problems and project risks that can kill your team’s efficiency, one of the greatest threats to your productivity is not taking the time to create and master repeatable processes. Jump to a section: What is process mapping? How to create a process map using workflow management software 1.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

We’ll go through some of the most popular project management methodologies, which are applied in many sectors such as software development, R&D and product development. The name is apt, as the waterfall methodology is a process in which the phases of the project flow downward. How do you know if agile is for you?

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 9, 2023

It’s part of the larger process of resource management. We’ll talk about the different types of project resources, why they’re so important to project management and how resource management software helps you manage resource availability. It runs your computer, which is the work site for software development and more.

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Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 23, 2021

4 How to Get Started 5 Tools for Identifying Opportunities 6 Think Outside the Box 7 Where Will You Capture Opportunities? When planning for your projects, define the term risk and determine how you will identify and manage both threats and opportunities. Include your definitions and processes in your risk management plan.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Then we’ll explain the IT asset management process, including what an IT asset manager does and more. IT asset management (ITAM) is a process that makes sure that a company’s assets are accounted for, deployed, maintained, upgraded and disposed of when needed. The process follows these steps. What Is IT Asset Management?

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 15, 2023

If you’re looking to buy project management software, you know that the market is saturated with products that promise to provide efficiency to your processes. Jira is software that was developed by Atlassian, an Australian-based company, to track bugs, issues and for general project management.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 15, 2022

We did a fair amount of off-the-shelf software deployments, and we frequently made the point that we were a healthcare company, not a software development firm. We did have a team of developers who built some in-house apps, and web front ends to databases, but we were not, at heart, a company that built software.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 19, 2024

The name kanban means billboard in Japanese, and you can see why, as the process involves placing tasks represented by cards on physical or digital kanban boards. The scrum master is the team expert on the process, and they are instrumental in guiding the team to optimize the use of scrum in the project.

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Techno-PM

MARCH 25, 2022

Role of business analysts in software development Software Development is a complicated process that requires the collaboration of many different skill sets. Developers will use the document once approved by stakeholders. Developers should have opportunities to ask to clarify their doubts.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 4, 2022

The scrum methodology was developed as a response to rigid project management approaches such as the waterfall method, which didn’t adapt to the needs of agile product and software development teams. Scrum is part of agile software development and teams practicing agile. What Is the Scrum Methodology? Scrum Values.

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Herding Cats

DECEMBER 16, 2017

The estimating of software development is both straightforward and complex. Here are some resources that will provide guidance to produce credible software development estimates, in both traditional and agile domains. Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art , Steve McConnell, Microsoft Press, 2015.

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Project Risk Coach

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The best project managers know how to exploit and enhance opportunities. A business analyst discovered a free online process improvement course (for the next three weeks). Consider a project sponsor who asked a project manager to deliver a project four weeks earlier than originally planned for a software development project.

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Planio

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

An implementation plan guides your entire team through the who , what , when , and how of your project — providing clarity, alignment, and accountability for everyone involved. The 8 essential elements of an implementation plan Project plan vs. implementation plan vs. release plan How to create an implementation plan in just 6 steps Step 1.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Tracing those features can ensure that none slip through the cracks, a process that’s best completed by using a requirements traceability matrix. The requirements can move across departments in an organization as they go through the development process, and that doesn’t include involved stakeholders. How to Create an RTM.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 15, 2018

When such developers write articles, blog posts, or tweets about the importance of having a particular configuration so that you can work fast , there’s an underlying assumption that everyone shares the same preferences about how to work. The features of the tools have to be in the developer’s muscle memory.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

That’s when the Snowbird summit happened and the 17 authors got together to work out how things for software developers could be better. The Agile Manifesto says: We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. Welcome changing requirements, even late in development.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Learn how to make one, leverage some free templates to help and find out how CPM software facilitates the process. How to Make a CPM Schedule Now that we understand the terms, it’s time to create a CPM schedule. Join teams at Avis, Nestle and Siemens who use our software to deliver success.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 2, 2024

In this article, we will explore How to achieve that. How Smaller Items Should Be? In the previous article ‘Benefits Of Smaller Product Backlog Items’, we explored why it is important to slice PBIs into smaller value units. As small as possible but still valuable. We need to think like a vertical slice like a cake.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

We value individuals and interactions over processes and tools. . To me, this value means that people and how they interact and work together are more valuable than any defined process or tools they use. We value working software over comprehensive documentation. . Individuals come first.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 6, 2022

A project execution plan is a document for executing projects that helps you strategize, come up with project management processes and put the whole thing into action. Where an idea can be aspirational, the project execution process is thorough and practical, including all key activities. How to Create a Project Execution Plan.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

When formulating disaster recovery, it is assumed that that the main area where your IT is located is not salvageable, at least not immediately; therefore, the plan speaks to the process of restoring data and services to another IT site that is workable. How to Make an IT Disaster Recovery Plan. Issue Tracking Template.

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