Tutorials and tools for managing, estimating, planning and tracking software development projects: PMP, Agile, Scrum, Lean, Kanban
This is the first chapter of a book on this topic. This chapter introduces the key aspects of commercial project bidding. The bid is the foundations of project success and must not only persuade the client of its worth, but it has also to offer a feasible and commercially viable...
EVM is a simple quantitative technique that can be used to measure the schedule progress and optionally the budget progress of software projects. This article explains what EVM is and walks you through an example of using EVM to measure test-effort progress.
Meetings that encourage participation and building consensus are valuable, but true project team collaboration assumes shared responsibility and ownership to boost creativity and learning.
Scheduling and resource allocation is a critical part of project planning in multi-project environments. In this blog post, Kailash Await explains that resource allocation issues are a consequence of flawed organisational procedures rather than poor project management practices.
The article “Managing Schedule Flaws using Agile Methods” presents several symptoms and causes of schedule problems, describes metrics and diagrams that can be used to track your team’s progress against its schedule and proposes Agile approaches to mitigate these risks.
In this blog post, Vitaly Dubravin provides some knowledge about to do or NOT to do in order to motivate a project team.
In this blog post, Kathlika Thomas provides a few tips for managing your project meetings and a meeting outline that you can use over and over on your engagements.
A project scope is about the size of it and how much work it contains. This article give some hints on how to start getting your arms around all the work required, defining and organizing scope.