Many problems surface, become apparent and are resolved during team member recruitment. When potential team members hear about an...

Even when you are using different development frameworks (agile, waterfall, scrum) the selection of team members is a critical activity,...

We are all trying to find the secret to success when running an application development team the secret is the planning to obtain the...

So you are going ahead with the purchase of ScrumMaster/Project Management Software and it’s time for you and your team to evaluate...

The real language of business is money, no matter what political system you live or work in. As a Project Manager, Quality Analyst or...

I have always been a very visual learning individual and I am a fan of flowcharts because I always believe that before you begin work on...

There are changes you can make to your WBS charts, you can change them to an indented chart because the format is preferred over the flow...

Before a global organization creates KPIs for each goal, they will need to have many organizational processes in place for this to be...

Some of the differences I have experienced between Business Analysis and Project Management. As you can see (below) when you are using...

My history while using the Scrum framework is that the framework is all about taking risks early and often in the development of the...

I see little things that the traditional project management methodologies introduce into the agile/scrum environment. I think there are a...

So if you read Bruce Tuchman’s 1965 Forming Storming Norming Performing team-development model you start to understand that teams go...

Now you have to tools needed to efficiently build a team and you know the approach to take from day one of your project. Using smart...

Starting Development Now your team can start the “real work” of the project, and now you are very dependent on your team leaders, teams...

Here you GO Now all team members are up to speed and have a clear concept of the project and all the results of your planning sessions...

Scope the Project So the business/stakeholder has defined the scope of the project, the scope of the project is the set of objectives for...

Your new development project has many plans associated with it, risk plan, testing plan, communication, schedule etc. Maintaining,...

Risk Analysis, Risk Management, Risk Mitigation, and Testing, as you work through your schedules and costs the risks you discover will...

Relationships between these two elements are extremely simple, “the shorter the timeline the less in development dollars, plain and...

Indicator Number Two-Team Supervision Teams come in all shapes and sizes as do the individuals who work on them, one type of supervision...