In February 2001, exactly 21 years ago, seventeen people met at The Lodge at Snowbird ski resort in the Wasatch mountains of Utah, to find an alternative to documentation-driven, heavyweight software development project management processes developed "The Agile Manifesto". Influential leaders and business media, such as Harvard...
While the art of project management has existed for a long time, the modern concept of project management did not exist until the early 20th century. Especially as we’ve moved into a largely digital area — where we’re constantly surrounded by new apps and tools — project management has...
PM360 Consulting is a company which specialises in Project, Programme & Portfolio Management (P3) solutions and this is widely recognised as one of the pre-eminent business skills of the 21st century, because of the complex and constantly changing competitive business environment that demands a professional...
In this article, you will see why your project will get cancelled and what you can do about it. You will learn the importance of linking projects to the company strategy. You will also see what to do at the start of a project to...
Yet another study has listed “culture” as the most difficult hurdle to an organization’s transformation. According to the survey of 1,100 software managers, “General organization resistance to change” (48%) and “Organizational culture at odds with Agile values” (44%) are two of the four top obstacles thwarting the...
64% of high-maturity projects are completed on time and just 67% were completed on budget, with 9.9% of every dollar wasted due to poor project performance. (PMI’s 2018 Pulse of the Profession report). Up to 75% of software projects are always or usually “Doomed right...
Competitive factors are now forcing companies to realize that business survival in the new world is predicated upon growth and innovation. Now more than ever it is essential for companies to stay ahead of competitors, new entrants, changing consumer behaviours and market trends. Change is...
So some time in the past you switched to using Agile. And after the initial teething problems, presumably you felt it started to make a difference? It appears you’re right; the figures would appear to bear this out. According to the most recent Standish Group Chaos...
Students studying operations management are bound to come across the book by Dr. Eliyahu Goldratt called The Goal. In this classic from 1984, Goldratt reveals a set of "thinking tools" he developed, called the Theory of Constraints (TOC), and how he uses them to solve a...
Know The Way Go The Way Show The Way Today, project management has become an integral part of modern business operations. Organizations are increasingly relying on project management to monitor and evaluate projects, and to ensure that they comply with their objectives. Project management involves a range of...