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Managing Project Delays in the COVID-19 Age

Liquid Planner Collaboration

Countless projects have been delayed or temporarily suspended as a result of the pandemic, labor shortages, and disruption to supply chains. He says, “If it’s a short delay, you’ll likely have the same people on the project team when it resumes. Fail to plan, plan to fail; it’s that simple.”.

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Change Implementation Team: What it is and why you need one

Wendy Hirsch

The team should consist of members with diverse skills such as project management, technical expertise, training, measurement, and communication. For example, aim to ensure that project management and front-line staff functions are represented, rather than that Bob from the PMO and Kathy from customer service are always on the team.

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Estimating Agile Projects.Or Not

Mike Griffiths

Project managers generally like plans and estimates so we can forecast when things should be done and how much they may cost. It helps manage client expectations and answer the type of questions they ask, such as " When will it be done? " and " How much will it cost? So then I felt conflicted.

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Read These Top Articles For Greater Organizational Agility

15Five

For example, Oakes calls out major cell phone service provider, T-Mobile, during their 2012 low point. Because T-Mobile embraced change and stayed agile even under immense pressure, the company has now doubled in size since 2012. It wasn’t until the company brought in a new President and CEO, John Legere, that change began to happen.

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Creating a Risk-Adjusted Backlog

Mike Griffiths

Later in 2006, I wrote about  risk adjusted backlogs  and  Agile Risk Management , explaining how to insert threat avoidance and threat reduction activities in the backlog. Conclusion Risk management, like estimation, should not be just a project management activity.

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Intelligent Collaboration for Predictive Insight & Competitive Advantage

Liquid Planner Collaboration

LiquidPlanner is one such platform-based tool that allows all team members to pool their insight, verify, corroborate, or reconcile team assessments and then employ a best-in-class Monte Carlo simulation to generate Predictive Insights, which today, remains a unique feature when compared with other project management software tools. .

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Growing great upcoming ScrumMasters

Agile42

My colleagues in Finland have been in touch for a couple of years with Maria Paasivara , working as an adjunct professor at Aalto University in Helsinki and researcher in multiple subjects including globally distributed software development, distributed agile development and software project management.