Posted by Editor on July 9th, 2009
Written by Chris Yeh, PBworks’ VP Enterprise Marketing, for Cloud Ave
For most of us, work is a series of projects.
We’re always drawing up plans (some more formal than others) and trying to carry them out, usually as part of a team.
So if project management is so core to our professional lives, why is it so difficult to find great project management tools?
Historically, project management separated the “management” from the real work. Picture a Project Manager walking around with a clipboard, collecting status reports, and fiddling with Ganntt charts. Great for putting a man on the moon, but not appropriate for all the informal, fast-moving projects that make up the bulk of our working days. I’m sure most of you have used or seen Microsoft Project at some point, and I’m just as sure that 99.9% of you haven’t used Microsoft Project anytime in the past year.
For more, contine reading here on CloudAve.
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Posted by Editor on May 27th, 2009
Jean Tabaka, an Agile Fellow with Rally Software in Boulder, CO, concentrates on practices in collaboration and leadership. She shares her list of the Top 10 characteristics of an Agile organization, and #5 concerns the importance of practicing both Bottom-up and Top-down decision making.
In a 4 minute video, Jean talks about how successful organizations embrace a notion of the ‘knowledge-creating company.’ In Agile, knowledge-creation can use “5 Levels of Planning” to ensure they are engaging in this whole organization practice. In sum, the highest level of planning, the vision, feeds and is fed by all subsequent levels, down to the lowest level of planning, the detailed daily work.
For more on Bottom-Up and Top-Down Decision Making and other management tips, check out this link.
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