Darius on April 21st, 2018. Status reports in project management are great ways to provide to all project stakeholders good visibility over progress and performance. Furthermore, the reports can assure buy-in from the stakeholders if are structured enough to be concise and easy to read. You can read more on this topic on our partner website where we post articles...
Darius on April 17th, 2018. By using a fairly simple JIRA workflow, you have good parts and of course bad parts. One of the good part is that everyone can understand the workflow in minutes. One of the bad parts is that the visibility over a task lifecycle or project progress is not good at all. In web development projects, there are several stages where a certain...
Darius on December 23rd, 2017. During my experience as a consultant and as a project manager, I have learned to pay a lot of attention to project estimates. That is because if a project is estimated inaccurately, it will be on a straight path for disaster, regardless of how extraordinary the effort of the project team would be. You can read more on this topic on our...
Darius on March 1st, 2016. Although I am not a legal expert, during all this time since I was involved in web development, I have seen quite a few issues or pitfalls in IT contracts that can significantly affect the project’s life cycle. Furthermore, when they do affect the project, they do it in a very frustrating way because you usually develop specific...
Darius on February 11th, 2015. There are so many things that can go wrong with a project that are almost impossible to foresee.There are though some common patterns around every project that it’s mandatory to have them in sight. These problems are not always caused by obvious actions but if you have constant control over your project, you should see them coming...
Darius on January 23rd, 2015. If you recently signed a project or you are preparing a request for proposal document, I would say a discovery phase it’s mandatory for any project. If it’s not done properly or not considered at all, you may lose the project because of a brief RFP, or if you indeed get the project, you can bring it over-budget, you can mess...