By Susanne Madsen If you are running a software project, one of the questions you are likely to come across is which development methodology to use. Some like to stick to a traditional waterfall approach whereas others are keen advocates of an agile methodology. In reality many projects end up somewhere in between; with...
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User stories – WHO wants them, WHAT are they and WHY use them?
Introduction User stories are a popular technique for capturing high-level requirements. User stories provide the rationale and basic description of a new feature request. The following format is the most recognisable user story template: As a <WHO> I want <WHAT> So that <WHY> Agile teams adopting the user story technique often struggle with questions such as: WHO are...
To Learn or to Execute? That Is the Question
By Vivek Prakash, PMP If you’ve ever been in a corporate training session, chances are you’ve noticed fellow project managers coming in late, or not at all. The excuse is often, “There is so much pressure on the project that it’s very difficult to make time for training.” In my experience, project managers who choose...
What’s the Story? Stakeholders Want to Know
By: Lynda Bourne, DPM, PMP There is nothing like a good story to connect with project stakeholders and team members. Storytelling has been used to communicate sophisticated ideas for millennia, ranging from the parables in the Bible to the morals found in fairy tales. Done right, storytelling is a captivating way to explain why your...
Project Management – From the Perspective of Your Team
By Michelle Symonds Regular, honest assessment of your own project management style is a good way to develop and learn as a professional. Self-evaluation as well as the consideration of feedback from others and project lessons learned will help with this. Your leadership style, knowledge and skills are all areas which may be considered...
Three Common Project Management Stereotypes and Why They Are Wrong
By Vanessa Fiorido Life can be hard as a project manager, not only do you have your work to deal with, sometimes you have to battle awful stereotypes others have about project management. Here are the three most common project management stereotypes, and why they are wrong: Project Management Does NothingThe worst, and most common,...
Translating Libya’s vision into action through basic Project Management
By Salah Bugazia. As Libya embarks on this enormous transformation, applying basic Project Management principles will help translate ambitious vision and ideas into action both effectively and efficiently. Libya under took many large projects in the last few decades, resulting in partial or unsatisfactory results. Some projects started in the nineteen seventies and have...
Use paired programming to increase efficiency and reduce bugs
Years ago, I was introduced to the concept of Extreme Programming (XP). One feature of XP is that programmers typically work in pairs or very closely together on code reviews. At the time, I thought this was mostly foolish. Sure, code reviews are helpful, but if the programmers are so good, why do they...
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