project management

How Poor Planning Can Lead to Project Failure

By |October 30th, 2019|

Benjamin Franklin said it best, “If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.” Planning is critical to any project's success. Poor project planning is like letting your soldiers go to battle without any armor or weapon to use. It’s like going in the project blindly and still hoping

Good Failure vs. Bad Failure

By |October 22nd, 2019|

Every business strives to succeed. After all, we’re in business to make a profit. But there is no straightforward formula that will guarantee business success. There are times that we will fail and it's inevitable. Traditional companies would shy away from failure as if it isn’t in their vocabulary.

How Kanban is Reshaping the Future of Project Management

By |October 16th, 2019|

Businesses evolve at a rapid pace. To respond to market challenges and expectations, organizations need to keep up with the changing trends in technology, market behavior, and work culture. These changes don’t only affect how businesses innovate, but they also affect how companies operate. Time and again, we see

Scrum Sprint Planning with Kanban

By |September 25th, 2019|

Scrum Sprint Planning with Kanban During Sprint Planning, Scrum teams play fortune-tellers and try their best to predict how much work they can commit to. Most of the time, this is a difficult feat to pull. The usual approach of teams would be to take their average velocity and

Top 5 Benefits of Kanban for Project Management

By |August 14th, 2019|

Project Management Institute’s 2018 report, Pulse of the Profession, highlights interesting feedback and insight from over 5,500 project management practitioners, senior executives, and PMO directors, from various industries, and different locations around the globe. While they share similar drivers of project success, they are also part of some alarming

6 Tips for Effective Product Backlog Refinement

By |August 13th, 2019|

If you’re familiar with Scrum, you might have heard the term backlog refinement. Though not an official Scrum ceremony based on the official Scrum guide, Scrum practitioners have found backlog refinement an important event in their practice. But many are struggling to keep a good backlog refinement session going.