Project management and software should be one of those intersections that represents a marriage made in heaven. There are lots of details to manage, lots of math to calculate and lots of facts to keep in one place, so software seems like it should be a no-brainer. This article explores why this isn’t often the case.
The Power Of Workflow: Making Bad Software Functional
How we choose to use software can have the largest impact on its usability. Particularly when we try to take an organizational approach, how we use the software marks the difference between success and failure.
The Software Shuffle
Project management and software should be a marriage made in heaven. Sadly, these unions are often abusive at best and quickly end in divorce. We need to understand why if this is going to change.
Navigating Organizational Politics
Politics is an inevitable reality in organizational life. Neither good nor bad, it’s how things get accomplished. We need to understand our approach to politics to understand how we best get things done.
Great Expectations
One of the fundamental activities of effective project management is establishing effective requirements. Essential is a strategy to understand what are often unstated but very real expectations that exist within our organizations.
Managing In A Global World: How Easy Is This Anyway?
Globalization is a dominant them in the media, and the accepted wisdom is that increased globalization is inevitable. What does this mean for the project manager, and for the overall practice of project management?