The Benefits of Agile Approach to Meetings
Take a page from Agile and have better, more efficient meetings with your team, even virtual ones. You can learn how to here.
Methods and frameworks
Find out more about different project management methods, methodologies and frameworks so you can choose the right approach for your projects.
Parabol: Improve your retrospectives
Are you looking for a tool to run retrospective meetings? In this Parabol review, I’ll share the pros and cons of the popular tool – it could be the right product for your agile team. Summary Product: Parabol Cost and plans: Free plan for up to 2 teams Hosting model: Cloud and on-premise Languages: The…
Comparing Agile Methods: Scrum, Kanban, and Scrumban
Read on for comparing agile methods. Have you ever wondered what the difference is between Scrum, Kanban and Scrumban? Me too. So I set out to find out what the differences were. All your questions about the different Agile methods answered (well, most of them).
How to Manage a Construction Project
Construction project management has similarities to managing projects in other industries: ultimately, you’re aiming to get something delivered on time, on budget and to the required scope with an acceptable degree of quality. The role of a construction project manager is to make that happen. The infographic below shares some common problems with construction projects…
The Trouble with Methodologies and Why Frameworks are Better
If a methodology isn’t the best way to get the behavioural or cultural change you want to see, what would be better?
Are Project Managers The Dodo of The Agile Age?
How does a project manager – especially one trained and skilled in waterfall delivery techniques – stay relevant in a fast paced world? This article shares tips on how to keep up-to-date, and what agile (with a small ‘a’) means to project managers who want to bridge the gap between process and successful delivery.
Why Agile Works for Today’s Projects
Agile is the perfect approach to use on many projects. Learn why Agile is here to stay and what is holding companies back from embracing this way of working. This is a guest article by expert Patrick Mayfield.
What are the benefits of project governance (infographic)
What are the benefits of project governance? This infographic shares 6 reasons why project governance is a good thing for projects and project managers.
The Inexorable Rise of PRINCE2®
This is a guest post by Simon Buehring The number of people gaining PRINCE2® qualifications just keeps on growing and growing. September 2012 saw the total number of PRINCE2® examinations being sat break through the one million mark. That’s a pretty remarkable figure especially since this has been achieved in just 16 years since PRINCE2®…
How PRINCE2 has helped big business
This is a guest post by Peter Richards. When considering investing in a training course for yourself, a single staff member or your team, it’s crucial to consider the applications of that course. While PRINCE2® is a carefully-accredited training course, whose original two levels of Foundation and Practitioner have attracted favourable reviews from all over…
Agile and Distributed Teams: research results
I worked with ProjectsAtWork in 2012 to research and analyse good practices for making Agile successful with distributed teams. Agile isn’t the first approach you would think of to manage a project with team members spread all over the world, but actually it is a really common approach. Why people use Agile with a distributed…
Philanthropic projects: the PMI Educational Foundation
If you’ve been around projects for any length of time you have probably come across the Project Management Institute. You might even have heard of PMIEF: the PMI Educational Foundation. But what does it actually do? I thought it mainly sponsored research, but it turns out I was wrong. PMIEF’s Chair, John Rickards, gave a…