Update: We've published a new blog post with the ultimate hands-on guide on how to implement Scrum in your team. Scrum evolved out of a problem: software projects were coming in way over budget and way too late. A team would have a software project...
What would being better at running projects mean to you? What if you became a project management expert? What if you built your own project management course, skipping expensive fees and jumped straight to project guru status? Well, you’d start to get...
I sat down with Bruce Harpham from ProjectManagementHacks.com for a chat about project management, meetings, checklists and even Oktoberfest. In the interview, you’ll hear about: why you should write an agenda for each meeting you run; using checklists...
It’s tough managing projects. You get input from the CEO, sales, marketing, support and customers, while trying to come up with a realistic plan about how to make the project happen. Your role feels more like a cattle herder when you’re trying to coax...
As described in 6 Reasons Why Your Small Business Should Go Cloud, the "Cloud" is here, it's not going anywhere and, in fact, has been around since the 90s! Like any relatively new technology, it still takes time for things to catch on... Partly...
The romantic figure of Sinbad the Sailor is a familiar one in fiction; dating back well over 1,000 years, the seven tales revolve around the adventures of a heroic Persian who finds fame & fortune whilst riding giant birds, escaping from man-eating...
Whether you plan on launching your own startup or are already a small business owner, the odds are that the topic of Project Management has crossed your desk at least once. The idea might even be the cause of some irritation ("You mean there's a...
Superhero: an exceptionally skillful or successful person. Many of us have dreams to become greater than we are—an inner need to challenge our life's status quo and exceed even our own expectations. While growing up, most of us identified with role...
Maybe it's getting a bit stale to keep saying, "Cloud computing is the way of the future." C'mon, the future? It's here already and the concept has been around since the 90s (back when someone thought it would be cool to draw a little picture of...
So you—or maybe yourself and a friend or two—are eating pizza one night, probably complaining about something (e.g., "...yeah, the way they do it stinks. They need to implement it like this..." — fill-in the blanks for 'they' and 'it'), and then...