How to Improve Your Effort Estimation Skills

Effort estimation is a critical factor that separates projects that succeed vs. struggle. This informative and easy-to-read article covers the basics of effort estimation, and includes a look at the Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT). Planning a project is not an easy task; it is a project by itself. In most cases, there are...

Vad exakt är projektledning för företag och hur kan Planview AdaptiveWork hjälpa dig?

There are critical differences between enterprise project management vs. project management in mid-size and smaller organizations. This informative and easy-to-read article covers the basics of enterprise project management, and explores how Planview AdaptiveWork can play a key role in helping your organization succeed and thrive. As a company grows larger and becomes more diverse in...

Vad är ett arbetspaket inom projektledning?

A work package is an essential project management concept — but also one that is commonly misunderstood. This informative and easy-to-read article covers the basics of what a work package is, and how to use it to improve project planning, scheduling, performance and outcomes. You might have seen the term come up a lot, especially...

Hur man blir Scrum Master

I Star Wars-serien krävs det många år av rigorös fysisk och psykologisk träning för att bli jedimästare. Lyckligtvis är det mindre betungande att lära sig att bli Scrum-master - det finns inga Sith-herrar eller Dödsstjärnor att oroa sig för och Yoda är inte ständigt på väg att hitta fel på dina ansträngningar...

Vad är vattenfallsmetodik?

Många nya projektledare - och även personer som inte är projektledare men som får rollen som projektledare på sig - blir förvånade när de får veta att det inte finns en enda universell metodik för att bygga upp, genomföra och slutföra projekt. Faktum är att det finns dussintals av dem, var och en med sin egen struktur, sina egna regler, fördelar och nackdelar....

Project Risk Management: The Basics

What is Project Risk Management? All projects – regardless of whether they are relatively short and straightforward, or long and complex – carry a degree of risk. This is because while many factors may be known, established and predictable, there are some aspects and variables that are unknown or iterative (i.e. more is known as...

Hur arbetsautomatisering förändrar projektledningen

The classic definition of project management provided by the Project Management Institute is “the application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements.” While this is essentially true, there is another piece of the project management puzzle that experienced project managers know all-to-well, and new project managers quickly discover:...

Have You Lost Sight of Your Agile Transformation?

In a time when business agility is legacy-defining, today serves as the perfect time for technology leaders to revise their Agile practice. For many organizations, the ability to absorb and adapt to the changes caused by the pandemic is a leading indicator of how Agile they really are. Despite heavy investment in the practice and...

Team Project Management: DO’s and DON’Ts

While there are many ways to achieve project success, there is a unifying factor that all successful projects share regardless of whether their mission is to develop new software, construct a skyscraper, launch a comprehensive marketing campaign, or do anything else important and worthwhile: they make team project management a top priority. Indeed, in this...

Planview som en kraft för det goda

It is important to us at Planview that our employees live happy lives so they can be their best selves every day. There is an old Chinese proverb that concludes, “If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody else.” To that end, during the week of May 24th Planviewers around the globe were encouraged...