Planio Blog: Project Management

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What is technical debt? (How to properly manage it)

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Jory MacKay
May 28, 2025

When battling the triple constraint of time, cost, and quality, projects often opt for faster or more cost-effective solutions to get things done. One of the consequences of this choice is technical debt — issues or suboptimal code that needs to...

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What is social loafing? How to spot (and prevent) it

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Jory MacKay
May 14, 2025

Social loafing is the perceived psychological phenomenon that people do less work when they’re in a group setting. Think of the classic “school project”, where one or two high-achievers do 80% of the work while the rest of the team “loaf around...

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How to use Story Points in Agile (step-by-step guide)

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Jory MacKay
April 30, 2025

Despite what we think, we’re actually terrible at estimating projects. Studies show that 91.5% of big projects go over budget, over schedule, or both. There needs to be a better way to estimate the work ahead of us. Story Points are a powerful...