Comment réalisez-vous la planification des ressources en tant que PMO avisé ?

Les entreprises d'aujourd'hui se tournent de plus en plus vers le PMO pour améliorer leurs résultats. Des pratiques inadéquates de planification des ressources font qu'il est difficile de fournir rapidement des produits, des services et des expériences client innovants. "Le risque d'une capacité insuffisante est l'incapacité de financer des projets. Nous avons un "besoin de vitesse" et nous avons besoin des bonnes ressources au bon moment...

A Day in the Life of… a Senior Software Engineer and Team Lead

Meet Jordi Böhme! He’s one of our Senior Software Engineers and Team Leads who works remotely in Germany. We spoke to him about working in a different timezone and the first time he ever saw a skunk.  How do you start your day before work? Probably very different from most other Tasktopians; I’m a remote...

Why It’s OK to Say “I Don’t Know” (& How to Do It Productively)

Having to say “I don’t know” can elicit feelings of anxiety and inadequacy at work, like all of your hard work will be for nothing if you can’t answer whatever specific question has been thrown at you. This may stem from childhood, when not knowing what the teacher had just mentioned five minutes before would...

3 Façons de cultiver l'engagement des employés par le crowdsourcing

Are the benefits of employee crowdsourcing in large organizations a myth, or is crowdsourcing a sound strategy to invest in? Does crowdsourcing for ideas to improve one’s business lead to employee engagement, or is it a waste of time? Based on the results demonstrated at Rogers and TELUS – two of the largest telecom operators...

Flow Time – How Fast are We Delivering Business Value?

Flow time doesn’t stop the clock just because the weekend rolls around. What flow time does do is help quantify the probability of completing x percent of work in so many days – Dominica DeGrandis, author of Making Work Visible and Principal Flow Advisor at Tasktop  Every second counts in software delivery. That’s why Flow Time —...

Scrum : Comment prioriser les éléments du backlog

During a sprint planning session, items are chosen from the product backlog to be worked on in the sprint. However, not all product backlog items (PBI) are created equal, and the prioritization process for what will be chosen is essential for the smooth running and eventual success of the sprint. PBIs that meet certain criteria...

Comment assurer le synchronisme post-réunion ?

Meetings are one of the most important, yet also maligned aspects of the professional world. Some productivity gurus suggest cutting them down and running them like a 5-minute team talk, others propose performing them standing up and many more suggest banning them altogether. While calls for such draconian steps are probably wide of the mark,...

Agile Project Management: 5 Tips for Starting Your Journey

Aucune transition d'un travail axé sur les jalons à une gestion de projet Agile n'est sans défis. La méthodologie Agile est connue pour permettre aux équipes de travailler de manière plus efficace et efficiente, mais ces résultats se produisent rarement du jour au lendemain. C'est parce que passer à la gestion de projet Agile n'est pas une action ponctuelle, c'est un voyage qui nécessite le soutien des cadres,...

The Core Principles for End-to-End Traceability in Enterprise Software Delivery

Until recently, manual traceability from compliance reporting has held back large organizations from becoming software innovators. Now, enterprise toolchain integration is helping organizations across heavily-regulated industries, such as healthcare, automobile, finance and government, to automate the sophisticated flow of work from ideation to operation, helping them obtain one source of truth into a product’s development....

Cinq signes que votre entreprise a besoin d'un GP

Project management has become an increasingly common factor in how most companies perform their operations, but it is not yet universal. For firms who use it, the importance of project management is clear, but for those who don’t, the picture might not be as obvious. How the project management steps and process work for any...