Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 24, 2020

Why would you launch a new project management software tool when the market is so crowded already? The Agile Manifesto was written in 2001—which was the same year Rally Software was founded. For much of the early 2000’s, large companies would shudder at the thought of operating a team in an agile way. Jordan Husney.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 2, 2024

Jira is project management software designed for agile software development teams. It has tools that allow you to plan sprints, track the completion of tasks, balance your team member’s workload and create product roadmaps. Does Jira Have a Kanban Board? Here are some of the key features of a Jira kanban board.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 13, 2020

This includes the project team, the tools they need, materials, facility and so on. That can mean a lot of headaches for project managers trying to balance their resources with the team’s capacity. What is Resource Management Software? The following are a handful of the best resource management software currently available.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Contracting for Agile software development projects continues to be a major organizational impediment. Your legal department is trained to protect the firm from all the bad things that can happen when the unexpected occurs. Combine that tendency with management’s desire to protect their jobs when the bad things happen.

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Leading Agile

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

This one is for software developers. ” In particular, I’m thinking about the notion of keeping the software design clean at all times. Ron Jeffries has an article describing how fundamental refactoring is in the basic professional practice of a software developer. ” Too bad.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The first paper was a 2012 study on the tensions with remote (off-shoring) teams (Ramesh et al Ambidexterity in Agile Development ISR2012). It confirmed my preconception that regular education struggles to keep up with developments in our field. Even in institutions where they teach (software) development.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 3, 2020

Does your team struggle to get items to Done? Do they experience a high amount of spill-over into the next cycle because they are waiting on another team or another person? Do items sit in a blocked state and age out while waiting on other teams or people to complete work? Dependencies are an epidemic in software development.

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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. The project manager should define the approach to requirements development and management. Poor requirements change process.

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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. The bad news, it’s hard to master. Scrum is part of agile software development and teams practicing agile.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 7, 2019

The concept of technical debt comes from software development where it refers to the costs of having to go back and resolve problems that arise because of an earlier decision to take the easy route, instead of the best one. That doesn’t mean that technical debt is all bad. What Is Technical Debt?

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 22, 2019

Famously, software engineer and author Tim Lister said that: “Risk management is how adults manage projects.” You’ll Get the Project Team You Deserve. Because the uncomfortable truth here is that you get the team that you deserve. This isn’t to say that, if you’re a good person, the universe will reward you with a good team.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Agile is a way of working that comes from software development. While the roots of incremental development methods of working stem back to the 1950s and into the 1970s, it wasn’t until 2001 that a group of software developers published the Manifesto for Agile 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. Let’s take a look at Jira, which says it helps teams to track, manage and automate their projects. Projects are how the software collects common issues.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 30, 2024

If you’re researching which project management software to use, you’ve probably already compared Asana vs. ClickUp. Certainly, Asana is simple to use and pleasing to the eyes, while ClickUp is similar to Asana, but with software development tools. The software keeps them connected. What Is Asana?

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The Scrum Team delivers a valuable, useful, and usable Increment(s) every Sprint. In my view: It could be a "layer of cake team", in that it cannot in and of itself delivery value without dependencies on other "layers" of the cake. Scrum Team members strive for net improvements. Self-managing.

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Project Risk Coach

MAY 21, 2018

Proper Planning Prevents Poor Performance. If this is true, why is it that some project managers put so little time in developing a project management plan? I’ve developed this checklist to help you develop your project management plan including baselines, subsidiary plans, and ancillary plans.

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Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Then, we will explore how to develop a practical quality management plan. The Cost of Poor Quality First, we may not meet customer's needs and expectations. Fifth, your team's morale may suffer. This is often a result of poor quality requirements. Project managers and teams focus on meeting the customer's needs.

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Scrum.org

MAY 22, 2024

Estimates are notoriously bad. In the world of agile development, inaccurate estimates can lead to missed deadlines, blown budgets, and frustrated teams. Human biases, lack of historical data, and the complex nature of software development add layers of difficulty. But why is estimation so challenging?

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Project Risk Coach

MAY 28, 2016

Ever have this sinking feeling that a bad moon is arising on your project? Perhaps you and your team identified the following threat: “Someone may steal building materials during construction.” Imagine that you are managing a software development project. Think about your team. Look forward.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 7, 2020

Scrum is a great framework for helping teams work more productively together. In fact, the name comes from rugby and like it, scrum is a team sport. Teams learn through experience, reflective meetings and specific roles that add structure and manage work. This gives teams the power to continually optimize its processes.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Salesforce is primarily a customer relationship management (CRM) tool, not project management software. However, these tend to be lightweight tools that aren’t comprehensive project management software and they’re also expensive. They don’t have the scope of real project management software. What Is Salesforce?

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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. Within a project, you create teams and workstreams.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The project management software is expensive, complicated and not collaborative. No wonder project teams look for open-source Microsoft Project alternatives. 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.

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MPUG

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Something of a revolution has occurred in the software development arena over the last few decades. Many companies, large and small, have converted to Agile project management methodology instead of the classic Waterfall type approaches that had dominated the development landscape some years ago. A Focus on Functionality.

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TechEmpower - Project Management

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

When speaking with founders and CEOs, we often hear concerns like this: My project manager is losing confidence in the development team. I think that poor communication and differing team cultures might be part of the problem, but how can I know for sure? And in the software world, an A player is worth 10+ C players!

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Scrum.org

JUNE 22, 2019

For years, I’ve fulfilled the role of Scrum Master for many different organizations and Scrum Teams. These teams were mostly focused on software development. These organizations were able to attract the smartest developers and create products customers loved. Examples of a Developer Culture.

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Scrum.org

JULY 5, 2022

During the first year of the pandemic, Scrum adoption more than doubled for software development teams. According to the 15th Annual State of Agile Report, the use of agile approaches for software development grew from 37% in 2020 to 86% in 2021. It is, in essence, the plan for what the Scrum Team will do next.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 24, 2020

An excruciatingly boring and time-wasting activity, where the whole team sits in one room, looking at one screen trying to plan a two-week Sprint. We were stuck in believing that a team is a team and it has to work TOGHETHER! Scrum does not allow sub-teams, that means everything has to be done together.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 28, 2022

Kanban is a visual workflow tool that, while originally used as a Toyota scheduling system, is now associated with in an agile methodology, especially in DevOps software development. As its popularity has grown, kanban boards have found a use in industries looking for a way to have everyone on the team view the state of their work.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 7, 2022

Monday.com is a popular project management software that targets both seasoned and novice professionals. Because shopping for a work or project management software that suits your needs can be overwhelming, we’ve researched and ranked the best Monday.com alternatives. There’s also a weakness in its reporting tools.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Project management software can control the service request process. ProjectManager is award-winning project management software that helps you manage each step in the service request process and tracks it in real time. The user is asking for something rather than an IT incident when something bad happens. They are as follows.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 9, 2019

This is an important question to ask at the beginning of a software development project, or in the case of a long-standing product team, before the development of a major release of a system. Any given practice has trade-offs: it works well in some situations and proves to be a bad idea in others.

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Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 23, 2021

Consequently, these project managers and team members fail to take advantage of these upside risks. The Merriam Webster Dictionary defines risk as "the possibility that something bad or unpleasant (such as injury or a loss) will happen." Here are some examples: Your software development project is behind schedule.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Visual Project Management is a process that uses the visualization of the project delivery process to drive team behaviors: to collaborate and effectively manage projects to deliver on time. Rather than look at the project plan, look at what the team is doing. Without clear situational awareness, the team will flounder.

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Project Bliss

JANUARY 6, 2020

Once you’ve decided to implement agile, you and your team need a way of measuring the success of your implementation. The following metrics can provide a good place to start evaluating you and your team’s agility: 1. It can indicate software quality and value. Related: A PM’s Guide to Agile Software Development.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 16, 2019

Without one or the other, a business will struggle with weak performance. While seemingly impossible, there are principles that guide operational discipline so that a team can achieve these objectives. The methodology moved to the private sector in 1998 and has roots in the agile manifesto created by software developers.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The best IT teams often operate efficiently in the background as they create and automate tasks for smooth business operations. By being aware of these important trends, IT project teams can find success regardless of their location, work style or role. Reduced visibility causes IT teams to struggle with how to prioritize projects.

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