Your path to business agility
Many enterprises that use JIRA face a good news/bad news dilemma that invariably starts leaning away from the former, and heads dangerously towards the latter. The good news is that their engineers love JIRA’s agile tooling solution, and can’t (or won’t) imagine working without it. Whether they’re doing code reviews, task branching, continuous integration, new...
Published regularly, Forrester Waves use a rigorous and transparent methodology – including hands-on evaluations, surveys, product demos and customer reference calls – to compare vendors, so that professionals can make informed decisions for their organizations. In addition to its signature “Wave” graphic, Forrester also provides a spreadsheet-based tool for professionals to create shortlists based on...
Enterprise project teams simply can’t function without a high level of trust. From senior stakeholders to the least experienced team members, everyone needs to feel confident that they can rely on their teammates to keep the best interests of the project (and each other) in mind. Without active efforts by the project manager, it’s easy...
If you’re a non-technical person, managing development teams and technical projects can be difficult. Your project team members are working on tasks that you’ve never done yourself, using unfamiliar tools and speaking in jargon that that you don’t understand. It’s natural to worry that you won’t be able to build an accurate timeline or prioritize...
Do you and your team struggle with excessive workloads, tight deadlines and conflicting priorities? If so, the problem may be that you don’t say “no” often enough. Saying “no” in the workplace can be difficult. Many people fear that if they turn down requests or assignments, they may find themselves out of a job. It’s...
Few aspects of enterprise project management are as important, or as frustrating, as tracking the time employees and contractors spend on their work. Accurate time tracking is essential for determining budgets, estimating task durations, calculating project return on investment and many other key business processes. Unfortunately, team members often view time tracking as an annoyance,...
How engaged are your employees? Are they putting in the extra effort to get their jobs done right, or are they simply doing the minimum to remain employed? Are supervisors giving employees the tools they need to solve challenges in their work? Do your team members feel that their managers have a clear vision for...
In less than a decade, enterprise collaboration has evolved from a vaguely-defined concept into a fundamental part of global business. Today, enterprise collaborative work management is an essential capability for organizations in every industry, allowing project managers to guide and engage even the largest and most geographically dispersed project teams. While collaboration in business can...
Did you ever get the feeling that something on your project wasn’t right, even when your schedule and budget seemed to be on track? Have you noticed that team members seem frustrated or out of touch, or that you need to make seemingly simple requests multiple times before anyone bothers to act on them? Experienced...
The holidays are a hectic time for everybody, and project managers are no exception. In fact, managing a team during the holiday season can be especially challenging for a PM. After all, in addition to trying to juggle your own holiday preparations and job responsibilities, you also have to make sure that your team members...
