Let’s talk project management/ Project managers are experts at juggling. They can plan budgets, review timelines, allocate resources, redefine targets, and assess reports like spinning knives or flaming batons, keeping everything in motion and sometimes seemingly only inches from disaster. Multi-tasking is an essential skill set for project management. Any enterprise project involves multiple moving… READ MORE
There are many Agile Tools on the market such as Trello, Jira & Co. But just as many organizations understand “digital transformation” to mean the introduction of tools to accomplish certain individual tasks, many agile tools limit themselves to pushing certain tasks through an imaginary workflow. Both of these things fall short of the mark.… READ MORE
In the wake of increasingly complex IT architectures that are prevalent in companies, the cost to control medium and large IT projects increases disproportionately as integration, interfaces and requirements become more time consuming and non-transparent. To counter this trend requires standardized development and especially a project management methodology with defined interfaces, input and output artifacts and a best practice model. One solution is the SharePoint Project Management as a Service (SPaaS) approach, which combines the flexibility of a catalog-based approach to the security of a fixed price offer.
Your must know this checklist for leading a project to success.
After spending the first 15 or so years of my career largely in Project Management roles, I’m sort of a PM junkie when it comes to books and tools and methodologies of how to move something from ideation (PM wonk term for idea creation, or initiation phase) to delivery and, ultimately, support. When Arpan Shah moved from the SharePoint product team at Microsoft over to Project Server (he’s now working on Office365), I shared some advice with him (which I’m sure he doesn’t remember): don’t try to solve too many problems at once, but simplify the tool. As I got to know Christophe Fiessinger on Arpan’s team over the past couple years, I told him the same thing. So when I met with members of the revamped Project team a couple weeks back to talk about SharePoint 2013 and roadmap for SharePoint Online and Office365, I expected to have much the same conversation.
