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 […]
Critical chain is not dead, but after many years of it being the primary technique for analyzing schedules and prioritizing tasks, there’s a better alternative today. As many project managers increasingly abandoned the much-hated, cumbersome to maintain, too long, and unclear Gantt chart, they subsequently discontinued using critical chain. A typical Gantt chart could easily […]
The most dreaded question in project management is the simplest one. “So, how are we doing?” Sometimes it’s a stakeholder asking. Sometimes its management. Sometimes it’s you, the project manager, asking yourself. Answering “How are we doing?” is not a simple preposition. Most of the time, people go running for the data. We all know […]
How do you know if you’re on track to meet your business goals? This is a million dollar question. Most people are looking at the data – but what data you are looking at, is it visually organized, and is it answering the right questions? Many workplace tools come loaded with dashboards, which purport to […]
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 […]