People need to collaborate on projects. As a follow to our blog post we want to know what type of tools are most used. Take our poll to help answer this question: Poll!
For managing projects in general and agile projects in particular we need to collaborate with project team members, communicate milestones, interact with clients, solve problems, and share folders, project documents, reports and tasks in real time. All this even being distributed around the world. So, the questions are how to manage such a project in… Continue reading Collaborative Tools for your Agile and Distributed Teams
While searching for agile project examples, I discovered a white paper published by Fergal Mc. Govern, CEO and founder of Visible Thread, who found that IT Directors, Project Managers and Business Analyst Team Leads raised the question about the Project Documentation across a portfolio of projects. Fergal Mc. Govern explicitly describes how to apply agile… Continue reading Guidance on Project Documentation in Agile Projects
If you need to decide how to proceed in a project, the book “Going Agile – Project Management Practices” starts with a guidance on if and how to move over to an agile methodology. The first two chapters explain what it means what changes for which projects agile practices are applicable. Even more, the benefits… Continue reading Going Agile – What does it mean?
This is an infograph on using social media to promote your personal and business profile. This infograph was used to structure the presentation given at the Heidelberg International Professional Women’s Forum in January 2014.
By 2016, 25% of net-new BI and analytics platform deployments will be in the form of subscriptions to cloud services.
–Gartner 2014
Last week, I got my first copy of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms. This year, I was a little disappointed in the progress in the BI market place.
In his January 2014 Computing article ‘Corporate Risks from Social Media’, Brian M Gaff highlighted several risks related to the use of Social Media in the workplace. While Brian encouraged organizations to leverage the benefits of social media, he suggested that they should be vigilant in establishing internal controls policies and policing. His explanation of… Continue reading Social media use and monitoring in the workplace
On January 25th, I will presenting on “Social Media: the 3 things you need to know to better sell yourself or benefit your business” at the Heidelberg International Professional Women’s Forum. I plan to talk about the topic based on my personal experience as professional, a mother, and an expat. The following is an copy… Continue reading Upcoming presentation “SocialMedia: the 3 things you need to know to better sell yourself or benefit your business” HDHIP
In Chapter 17 of “Going Agile Project Management Practices” we discuss the need to work with the finance department to establish new practices to capitalize agile project. Daniel R Greening, Ph.D., the Managing Director of Senex Rex, has published a good article on this topic: Why Should Agilists Care About Capitalization?