Project Management for Software Development
Tutorials and tools for managing, estimating, planning and tracking software development projects: PMP, Agile, Scrum, Lean, Kanban
2020 has seen a seismic shift in how we work across the IT industry. Remote working and project management, previously the choice of a small minority of IT professionals, has become the de facto standard. This trend is likely to strengthen as workers and companies embrace the myriad potential benefits....
Stakeholders are individuals or organizations who stand to gain or lose from the success or failure of a software development project. This article focuses is on the prioritization of stakeholders within the organization to create the good requirements for a successful project. It presents a process for dealing with internal...
This video discusses issues and solutions for team collaboration in an interdisciplinary context.
Project manager can use influence to get things done, but you’ll still need to negotiate. This article discusses Good, Bad, and Ugly approaches to negotiate in software development projects. You will learn how you might use these in the complex and sometimes confusing “real world.”
The activity of project managers should be to gather requirements, estimates and control the work … or is it? This articles suggests that the main activity of project managers is in fact negotiation. You will learn how to gain influence and power in your organization as well as how to...
Meetings that encourage participation and building consensus are valuable, but true project team collaboration assumes shared responsibility and ownership to boost creativity and learning.
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.
In this blog post, Esther Derby explain how to manage groups with different priorities in software projects.