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The latest News and Information on Project Management, methodologies, productivity and tools.

Project management for non-project managers

When the pandemic hit, the pressure to adapt ServiceNow training offerings grew exponentially. An increasing number of customers from the Americas, Europe, India, and Australia wanted more virtual classes, more flexibility in scheduling, and more customization. Answering basic project planning questions in a timely manner became more difficult for the ServiceNow custom training and adoption team. With the rising demand, our team resources—spread across the globe—had to scale.

5 techniques for project management in IT and beyond

Project management is a growing field, it helps teams to organize and keep track of work, so projects can be executed successfully. It includes initiating, planning, executing, controlling/monitoring, and closing the project. So, the question is, is there one specific approach that we can use for effective project management? Definitely, not! Each project is unique and it would be impossible to employ a one-size-fits-all approach.

Project Schedule Management (How To Get Started)

Project schedule management is essential to the successful completion of any project. By mapping out a clear schedule, you can hold team members accountable to deadlines for specific tasks and ensure projects are completed within agreed timeframes. You can use project schedule management software to outline key milestones and assign team members to complete certain tasks.

IT Project ROI and Business Case Toolkit

Only 29% of IT project implementations are successful, while 19% percent are considered utter failures (according to the Chaos report). Thus, organizations must take the time to assess, quantify, and communicate the costs, benefits, values, and ROIs of enterprise technology initiatives. So, to help you get started, here is a tool that supports both 30-minute and highly detailed assessments.

Scrum Ceremonies: A Beginner's Guide

A Scrum Ceremony is a type of scrum event or meeting that is intended to help move projects forward in a more timely and efficient manner. These ceremonies occur at key points in the production process, emphasizing organized collaboration and communication between team members to help simplify complex development processes and queues. For example, Daily Scrum is a ceremony held every morning to go over which items have been completed, which are being worked on, and which are coming up.

Agile User Stories: Examples and Templates

Creating a new product or implementing a new feature should be rewarding and encourage innovation. However, when a development team is instead stuck writing lengthy requirements documentation with suffocatingly rigid guidelines, that may not always be the case. Traditional software development methods relied heavily on following a predetermined set of requirements for each unique feature of a given product, service, or application.

Project Management Vs. Service Management

Understanding the relationship between Service Management and Project Management is a topic of interest for many people because, at first glance, both techniques appear to be competing for the same workspace in many organizations. They are critical practices for every business to develop and prosper. So, although project management and service management may sound similar, there are several key distinctions between the two concepts.

The payoffs of Agile project management

The concept of project management isn’t new, but project management is in the spotlight today. Why? Organizations everywhere face enormous pressure to consistently identify, develop, and launch the right solutions, products, or services to address market realities and enable digital transformation. A key factor to success is using the right delivery methodology and, increasingly, the answer is Agile.

Education Project Management Software (Guide)

Education project management software can transform learning experiences. Before the use of software, educational teams collaborated in meetings rooms and teacher lounges, and student reports were sent home to parents in crisp brown envelopes. Those days are gone. Times are changing and educators now have a wide range of digital collaboration tools to choose from.