Disadvantages of project management: Project Manager’s Evaluation Managing projects is fantastic, yet, we do not talk much about the disadvantages project management and manager may face. I have been running projects for multiple years now and have seen the dark side as well. Let’s talk! The most significant disadvantage …
What To Do When A Project Is Over Budget? Fix It
What To Do When A Project Is Over Budget? Even if you are the best project manager in the world, your project can go over budget. Have you just realised after monitoring and controlling that you will not complete your project with the assigned funds!? Not all is lost! But …
What Happens When A Project Goes Over Budget? Prevent It
What Happens When A Project Goes Over Budget? There are many reasons why projects are failing, but one of the most sensitive is going over budget. Usually, at the beginning of the year, businesses plan their resources and allocate budgets to projects expected to generate growth or optimisations. When a …
How to be Successful in Project Management, Your Guide
How to be Successful in Project Management Your Guide to Running Projects and Avoiding Pitfalls If you are reading this post, you must be interested in project management; learning what it is made from, or just having everything in one place as a reminder. Well, I have great news for …
What Is The Difference Between Sprint and Scrum?
Scrum is the framework and a Sprint is an event within it. Understand their relationship, accountabilities, events, timeboxes and common misconceptions.
PESTLE In Project Management: What Do You Need To Know?
PESTLE In Project Management: What Do You Need To Know? Let’s talk about PESTLE Analysis and how you can use it to make a successful business change. Organisations are always looking to improve and grow, and the way they achieve is via new projects. The right tools like PESTLE help organisations’ and …
Non-functional Vs Functional Requirements, How to be Successful?
Non-functional Vs Functional Requirements, How to be Successful? Avoid Scope Creep, save time & money with The Accurate Definition of Requirements. When I have started working in the project world eight years ago, I had no clue about the differences between functional and non-functional requirements (table below). Through years and gained experience, I …
What Are Project Constraints? Six You Need To Know
What Are Project Constraints? Six You Need To Know All projects are affected by multiple constraints. Therefore, as a project manager or project team member, you are dealing with them every day. Identifying and understanding constraints and carefully managing them could be the difference between the project’s failure and success. …
Project Characteristics: Key Elements That Define a Project
Project Characteristics: Key elements that Define a Project Project characteristics indicate if you have a project on your hands, but often these are relatively dry explanations. Thus, I have decided to use my personal and project management experience to make things a bit more exciting and explore what makes any …
When to use Scrumban? Simple Answer
When to use Scrumban? Simple Answer Scrumban might be that golden balance point between two Agile frameworks Scrum and Kamban, enabling more organisations to adopt Agile methodology without changing much of their existing processes or controls. It is not perfect in all situations, and this is what we would like …
What Are the Advantages of Scrumban?
What Are the Advantages of Scrumban? The chances are that you are already working in an Agile project world and know quite well Scrum or Kanban. But have you heard about Scrumban!? The clue is in the name Scrum + (Kan)ban and makes a highly capable framework. Srumban is a …
When Should You Not Use Agile? Not So Simple Answer
When Should You Not Use Agile? The Agile manifesto has literally changed the project world regardless if your organisation is using Agile or not. Still, should you use Agile in your project or organisation? What are the indicators where we should be avoiding it? Some projects or environments are not …