Project management comes with its share of pitfalls and problems. Avoiding common mistakes while managing your project is step one for guiding ideas to reality. Watching a project get derailed is a painful experience – and watching a project go off the tracks for a simply preventable reason hurts even more. Let’s take a look […]
Agile is all the rage, and for good reason. It’s effective, it works, and it works effectively. (Yes, agile methodology can bring such good results that we’ll repeat ourselves three times.) However, like any trend in the business world, there can often be adopters of a practice that do so in name only. This is […]
Project management drives many things in a successful organization: change, progress, success, future goals, and more. Successful project management drives organizations forward – but what drives project management? This is no small question. The difference between middling efforts and successful ones is clarity of purpose. Identifying drivers of successful project management opens up opportunities for […]
For better or for worse, JIRA remains the gold standard for software development teams’ project management. JIRA has over 75,000 customers around the world! And yet, many users and organizations are looking for JIRA alternatives: JIRA is very complex, and mastering it takes time and effort (and often, plug-ins) The learning curve is long, and […]
Does your project really need project management software? This is more than just a theoretical question, especially for small businesses and startups – there is money riding on the answer. The pros of using project management software are obvious: schedule adherence, transparency, and progress monitoring, among others. But this doesn’t make project management software absolutely […]