Stakeholders play a pivotal role in the success and failure of projects. Project stakeholders as we know are individuals or groups who have interest in the project and are directly or indirectly affected by the project. They have “stake” in our project and it is the re...
Customer engagement today is about providing valuable content that meets user needs rather than ubiquitous content. Hence Digital Project Managers should embrace this change of mindset and focus on up skilling themselves to efficiently manage digital projects and be pa...
Sometimes it becomes difficult to arrive at accurate estimates for user stories. Fibonacci numbers helps engineers to estimate user stories in a relative scale. The user stories are estimated in terms of story points, rather than hours.
Best practices for a Sprint Planning Session - why do we need it?
Recently, I was discussing with an ex-colleague about the importance of an effective sprint planning session. He works for a telecom company and was expressing his disappointment regarding a sprint planni...
Prioritization is an important aspect of our busy lives these days. As we try to multi-task, we often get overwhelmed. So, we prioritize our tasks and then take the tasks off our plate one at a time. Every organization has multiple projects being executed in parallel....
One of the key aspects of a project life cycle is requirements gathering and management.
What is Requirements gathering?
Requirements gathering is the process of collecting or eliciting the requirements for a project from all stakeholders through meetings and interviews...
Project Managers are responsible for the success of the project. During a Project Manager’s appraisal, we normally assess their performance based on whether the project has been completed on time, without slipping cost or quality. However, here are some additional metr...
In addition to knowledge related to process, technology and domain, Project Managers should have additional skills like good communication, leadership capabilities, presentation skills etc. I had once worked with a Project Manager who struggled during the monthly statu...
Many of us tend to ignore the importance of communication via email. It is treated just as another channel of communication. However, we cannot deny that the subject line, content, tone of communication plays a vital role in conveying our message via email. How you com...
