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Henry Gantt’s Biography & Role in Gantt Chart History

ProjectManager.com

He’s best remembered for the tool that bears his name and his works in the development of what’s called scientific management. While Gantt charts are named after Henry Gantt, the first Gantt chart was developed by Karol Adamiecki, a Polish engineer, in the mid-1890s.

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30 Team Building Activities

ProjectManager.com

Teams don’t just come together and click into well-oiled productivity machines, at least not always. There’s often a period of time when the team members have to get to know one another and develop a rapport. In other words, every team can find value in team-building exercise. Objective: Develop listening skills.

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How To Base Your Beliefs About Agile On Evidence

Scrum.org

This post is for anyone who wants to inspire, change or influence others through their efforts as professionals, with emphasis on the latter. What is the optimal size of a team? Should teams be stable over at least several years, or is it a good idea they change at will? How should leadership interact with autonomous teams?

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The Best Project Management Blogs for 2019

Online PM Courses

They vary from APM-centred content, to clearly promotional content (largely from services and training providers) to some of the best UK project management thinking. Their individual ‘Huts’ offer coherent sequences of articles that often form a great basis for developing your learning. Team Gantt. This one is a MUST READ.

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The Urge to Strangle(The Strangler Pattern)

Leading Agile

Most systems implemented in large IT organizations are point solutions implemented to solve local (departmental, business unit, or team) problems. They know their solutions are of local scope, but they lack the power or influence to drive a comprehensive solution. The Parable of the Bridge and the Canoe.

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How Thoughts Become Things - Doug Vermeeren

PM That Works

He's also the producer and director of four out of the top 10 personal development movies ever made. His award winning entrepreneur training programs have been rated among the best in the world. And now, the new hit film, which is how thoughts become things. Let's bring him on Doug vermeeren. Doug, how are you sir?

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

Herding Cats

And the same process is applied to the Scrum development processes on those projects. . Numerical anchors and their strong effects on software development effort estimates,” Erik Løhrea, and Magne Jørgensen, Simula Research Laboratory, Oslo. The Future of Systems-and Software Development. Springer International Publishing, 2016.