Project Bliss

MAY 10, 2017

Everybody’s talking about agile software development these days: project managers, software developers, IT directors, small startups and big corporations. What is Agile Software Development? Agile software development is an approach that promotes delivering value quickly to the customer.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

They have features, such as project tracking, workflow automation and other standard project management software features. Asana is an online project management software that has project management and task management features. It’s generally a more robust software than Asana. Fair enough. What Is Asana?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 21, 2022

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. The role of a release manager is crucial in ensuring that software projects are completed on time and within budget.

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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. How to avoid scope creep. How do you do that? Example of scope creep in software development.

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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. The short answer is sometimes.

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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

APRIL 2, 2022

As the team undergoes the work, the project manager can constantly review the schedule and add more detail to the next waves as this is known. How to create a rolling wave plan. These could be anchored by project phases, major deliverables, key governance review points or simply that you have chosen to plan in three-month increments.

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Project Risk Coach

MARCH 21, 2022

One of the greatest sins of software development is allowing users to specify things that will never be used (or rarely be used). The lower value requirements fall towards the bottom of the backlog and will not be developed in most cases. Requirements that will never be used. Failure to analyze assumptions.

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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. When to Use It: The practice originated in software development and works well in that culture. How do you know if agile is for you?

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Planio

OCTOBER 2, 2019

But software development isn’t one of them. Every great piece of software starts with a plan and a clear process in place. Luckily, there are numerous software development processes you can choose from when you’re starting your next project. But which software development process is right for you?

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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? Learn More!

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 7, 2020

For a long time the agile framework influenced teams outside of the software development sector from which it originated. ProjectManager.com is an award-winning software that has the flexibility to work within a traditional methodology, an agile framework or a hybrid of the two. An agile workflow can help. It’s ironic.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 12, 2019

That’s largely due to agile’s ability to adapt to change and incorporate customer feedback, both of which are essential in today’s world where technology is constantly evolving, and swathes of information are just a few clicks away—including public customer reviews. Progress is measured by working software.

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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. Determine how often you will invest time in identifying opportunities.

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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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ProjectManager.com

JULY 2, 2021

While kanban boards can be literal boards with cards on them, the tool has migrated to the digital realm where kanban software’s usefulness has grown exponentially in a range of industries. The project management world took note, and a number of kanban software tools were born. Benefits of Using Kanban Software. ProjectManager.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Project management software can help with IT asset management by keeping track of IT assets. ProjectManager is award-winning project management software that can help you track all your IT assets. Use our task list to create recurring tasks to never forget when warranties are due or when IT assets need maintenance.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Developing software, like any project, is complicated and littered with roadblocks. 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. The more information, the better for the developer to debug the software so it doesn’t happen again.

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Agilemania

MARCH 11, 2022

People keep discussing and writing on TDD vs. BDD and their differences in software development. For this reason, we have put together a blog post on TDD vs. BDD explaining it comprehensively. What is TDD? Test-Driven Development(TDD) is a common practice for developing simple, maintainable, and well-tested code.

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Scrum.org

JULY 21, 2020

That’s simple; let me help you: Write something about how awful “Agile” and Scrum are. These rigid methodologies inevitably turn developers into mindless cogs in a corporate machinery—churning out more and more code—while ignoring the true potential of these knowledge workers. The statement is plain wrong.

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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

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The project management software is expensive, complicated and not collaborative. Let’s look at several open-source Microsoft Project alternatives and see what they have to offer, where they succeed as project management software and where they fall short. They can be easily customizable, modifying source code to fit one’s needs.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) is a well-known practice for collaboration and teams use it to bridge the gap between product management and the software development team. It is also very popular among quality engineers to develop test automation frameworks. How to write a Feature file? Yes, it is.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 3, 2021

According to Michael James , dependencies in knowledge work — as in software development — are caused by knowledge gaps and not by the laws of physics. . Progress in development can only be made tangible through the delivery of software. Without feedback, development progress is not visible to the organization.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 11, 2023

The Developers explained that pair programming is a software development technique where two programmers work together at one workstation. One programmer writes code while the other reviews each line as the first programmer creates it. At the Sprint Review, they revealed their astonishing results.

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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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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. Determining the critical path is time-consuming and project managers have turned to project management software to help. But not all software has that feature. What Is a CPM Schedule?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 10, 2018

This is a review of Proggio software using Firefox browser, in November 2018. Languages: I didn’t see any options to change the software language. Proggio is task and project management software that looks visually attractive and is fast to build out schedules. How to Create a Project in Proggio. Name: Proggio.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 10, 2021

TL;DR; Without working software, you can’t build trust and you don’t know when you will get the next piece of working software. Once you accept this, and quality becomes non-negotiable, your Dev e lopers can focus on creating usable increments of working software. Professional Developers create working software.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 18, 2019

Jennifer Bridges, PMP, shows you how to incorporate new people and get them contributing quickly. In Review – How to Make a New Team Member Feel Welcome. Meet with them to review roles, responsibilities and expectations. Today, we’re talking about how to make a new team member feel welcome. Transcription.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 18, 2019

In Review – How to Have Fun at Work While Staying Productive. Before she discussed how to keep work fun, Jennifer explored what it is we mean when we say fun. Jennifer used these definitions and the ways people usually achieve them to come up with 10 examples of how to have fun at work. Ways to Have Fun at Work.

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Project Bliss

JANUARY 6, 2020

Read on to learn how to use agile metrics to improve your work processes. It can indicate software quality and value. Defect density is the number of defects per line of code. This combo can give you an idea of how reliable your project is to begin with, and can spotlight poor coding practices. What Is Agile?

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 10, 2021

Many teams are struggling with delivering modern software because they are not building with Test First Principals. A common form of Test First is Test Driven Development (TDD) and we can use it to meet more of our customer’s expectations, minimise our maintenance costs, and get fewer regressions and bugs in production.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 31, 2023

ProjectManager is powerful project management software that can be used by both experienced and beginner project managers and team members to manage projects. See how ProjectManager’s Gantt chart can help you stay organized. Each task and phase of the project has a due date, which means your project has a schedule.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 20, 2022

TL; DR: Scrum Master Interview Questions on the Sprint Review. Scrum has repeatedly proven to be the most popular framework for software development. Given that software is eating the world , a seasoned Scrum Master is nowadays in high demand. It is the Sprint Review.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2024

Everyone wants their projects to be “quality” but I often get asked about how to manage project quality in real life. Also, if you have internal auditors or a Quality Assurance function, or someone in the PMO who can do an informal (or formal) project review, book that in as well. What does it mean to “do” project quality?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

I regularly see that software teams are expected to deliver new features faster, become more productive, and create amazing, intuitive and easy to use applications that are bug-free. However, at the same time, they are often not given the time to tackle technical debt, learn new skills or improve how they work.

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