IT Project Managers: How to Adapt and Thrive in the DevOps Era

The rise of DevOps has unleashed a range of technical, workforce and business benefits, including: more deployments, faster lead times, shorter recovery times, lower change failure rates, less unplanned and rework, and even happier people. Indeed, as noted by open source configuration tool maker Puppet, enterprises that boost performance through DevOps methodologies enjoy greater employee...

What You Need to Know About Idea Software

What is idea software? Idea software, often referred to as idea management software, is a powerful solution that you can use to ask for, collect, analyze, and track ideas from diverse groups of people, also called a “crowd.” For businesses, this typically means employees, but many companies also use it to solicit and vet new...

Many UK Businesses Are Failing to Adopt Cloud Security Solutions

Security breaches and data leaks are probably the biggest threat to the security of international firms. Cyber-attacks have been steadily increasing and criminals no longer have to try to gain physical access to a building wielding a weapon or sneaking in a window at night time. In recent years the world has changed significantly with...

An Executive Perspective on Changing Work and Resource Dynamics

We live in a fast-paced, technological world, characterized by seemingly endless changes to work and resource dynamics. Teams are spread out across departments and locations, with individuals often approaching work in very different ways. This means executives are faced with delivering on corporate strategy while remaining flexible and promoting an adaptive organization. However, with all...

12 KPIs to help you improve the quality of your software delivery

The mad rush to deliver software faster is a major threat for an organization’s quality control and brand integrity. QA and test teams are under pressure like never before to ensure that software products are always functional, reliable and delivering value to end users. If it goes wrong, you can bet your bottom dollar that...

The 5 Elements of an “Enterprise-Centric” Project Management Software Solution

When it comes to choosing new project management software, enterprises typically rely on scorecards, content (e.g. reports, white papers, articles, blog posts, videos, etc.), case studies, peer reviews, comparison matrices, demos, data sheets, and other tools to evaluate potential solutions. Naturally, all of these are key pieces of the decision-making puzzle. However, there is a...

Project Manager’s Guide to Planning Projects

When you reduce project management down to its nuts and bolts, project managers all have the same essential goal: Getting things done with the resources they have available. Regardless of whether you’re an accidental project manager tasked with overseeing various operations or a professional project manager in charge of multiple teams across the globe, it’s...

What is Agile Methodology

If you’ve worked with or around software developers in the past decade, you’ve likely heard of the Agile methodology. Agile was originally designed to help developers create higher quality software, faster and more reliably. But Agile isn’t just for software anymore: As software teams experienced significant improvements in speed, quality, and reliability from using the...

Failing to Deliver Strategy… Slowly

Here is a common scenario: You spend months participating in annual planning. If you are part of the process that collects the list of projects, you are spending ridiculous hours collecting and consolidating. Then, you pass the list of projects to those who “align” those projects to strategy? The problem is that this alignment activity...