SDG’s Head of Product explores the relationship between *project* management and *product* management. One simple way to understand your company’s dominant mindset: what do you mean by the abbreviation “PM”?
Project management
What does success look like?
How do you define the success of a project? Who decides if the project is successful?
Plans, plans and more plans
The podcasters talk about plans! When to make them, when to change them, and when abandoned them completely. And also, what’s wrong with “winging it”?
Getting comfortable with iteration
There is a constant debate happening between the new way of thinking about development, typically agile methodologies, and the old ways of thinking, typically the beautifully named but oft-disparaged "waterfall." The thing is: this debate isn't happening much in a...
A Developers POV: moving from waterfall to agile
When the business is used to a traditional waterfall process how does a team move into an agile development process? Here are some tips from a developer’s POV on how to make that transition as smooth as possible.
All about risk
What is an actual “Risk” to a project? What do you put in that risk box on a status report? Jen Deutsch one of our seasoned project delivery people helps us figure this out.
Pause, Plan, Proceed
The process of planning is just as important, if not more important, than the plan itself.
The Science & Art of Project Management
“Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” — Sun Tzu, The Art of War At the young age of 22, I studied a Project Management college course. I was taught the science around Gantt Charts, PERT charts,...