Templates in Atlassian Confluence
If your organization uses Atlassian products, then you might have already used templates in Confluence. Why Confluence? Confluence provides version control and can act as a project documentation repository. It...
Scrumban: An Overview
Scrumban is a hybrid agile development methodology which was originally developed to help projects transition from Scrum to Kanban. The term was coined by Corey Ladas; author of “Scrumban: Essays...
Scope Creep: What is it, and how to avoid it?
The PMBOK® Guide describes scope creep as “adding features and functionality (project scope) without addressing the effects on time, costs, and resources, or without customer approval”. Even if the project finally gets...
6 Questions to Ask When Starting a New Project
So you’re going to be the Project Manager for a new client. You want to be successful at it and in order to do that, you would want to plan...
What is Critical Path Method?
Critical Path Method (CPM) is a resource utilization algorithm for scheduling your project tasks. The objective in CPM is to: List all the tasks in the project with the dependencies...
Project Status Reports
A project status report summarizes a project’s overall progress. A status report is an important communication tool that should be published to key stakeholders on a regular basis. The stakeholders...
Stakeholder analysis using RACI charts
A RACI chart or matrix identifies the key roles and responsibilities against major tasks within a project. It serves as a visual of the role each person on a team...
Introduction to Agile
Agile is the ability to respond and adapt to change. Software development is done iteratively, where requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration between self-organizing and cross-functional teams. Agile development enables...
The Waterfall Development Methodology
The Waterfall Development Methodology is a sequential-order life cycle model. The project moves from one phase to the next phase sequentially. It can be considered as the “traditional” development model....
Changes to Project Management post-COVID
Do you see any changes to Project Management post-COVID? Would it remain the same? Would it change? This article captures some of my ramblings related to this. Short Answer: Project...
Project Sponsor: Roles & Responsibilities
PMI defines a Project Sponsor as an individual (often a manager or executive) with overall accountability for the project. He or she is primarily concerned with ensuring that the project...
Stakeholder Analysis
Who is a Stakeholder? Stakeholders are individuals and organizations that are actively involved in the project, or whose interests may be affected as a result of project execution or project...
What is Project Management?
A simple definition for Project Management would be Getting Things Done! If you look up Wikipedia, It is the practice of initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing the work of...