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How to Optimize IT Project Plans
At a glance To optimize project plans you should do the following: Accommodate the agility required by modern Dev Ops Add a realistic ‘uncertainty’ buffer to plans Utilize a standard, baseline project management template to reduce complexity Introduction Do any of these conversations sound familiar? When will the project be complete? ...
Hybrid Agile-Waterfall Methodology: What is it?
There has been a takeover of the product development methodology of choice happening over the past 10 or so years. For those of you who started in product development before that time, then you’re familiar with the waterfall approach where phases in the product development cycle happen one after the other. There is little room for overlap. Kind...
How to Ensure Business Continuity During Employee Departure
Maintaining “business as usual” after a major disruption in your organization is a challenge. These disruptions aren’t in your project or yearly portfolio plan. Nor have you aligned resources to overcome. Disruptions may result from a variety of events. Natural disasters, enterprise technology failures, cyberattacks are a few common ones that...
Knowledge Transfer: An Approach For Executing it Effectively
Losing a key employee? Learn how to effectively perform knowledge transfer to share their mastery throughout your organization.
Daily Check-In and Status Email Check-Ins
When projects get rolling and eventually when the team is in crunch time, there is a strong need to keep the PM/BAs/Developers all on the same page. To that end, here is what we do: Morning and Evening Check-Ins: Review the open issues/bugs/next steps Schedule the day of bug fixing, testing and any other analysis work needed Detailed Status...