Being a lone Project Manager can be very difficult. You have so much to do and no one to support you. You want to do a good job and use the best tools but could never quite find the right
Collaboration explored
The last five years has seen a huge growth in the number of on-line collaboration tools. These are often light in nature and little more than shared todo lists. New customers have often reflected that whilst those things were easy
PM capabilities extended
For those of you who are already PIAB users we have great news. This month sees the launch of the new Version 5.2 for Live Edition and also Enterprise and Small Team editions. As usual we have prepared some videos
Daily scrum meetings – practical scrum
We have had a few posts about scrum over the last few months. We launched our Practical Scrum method earlier this month and it is authentically Agile whilst corporate friendly. In this post we are going to look at another agile
Product Backlog – driving Scrum
We all know what at the heart of a well run Scrum Project there will always be a Product Backlog. So when we started working on the Practical Scrum method creating one was a high priority. We wanted to support you
Practical scrum – fitting your corporate frame
So in the last post we talked about Scrum and how it delivers well in dynamic situations. Scrums focus on getting the best possible product with the resources provided is what makes it good. However this and other aspects of
Scrum – Introduction and overview
Scrum is a methodology for delivering a project. It is an agile approach to projects, and to be clear agile means light of foot, not light on documents. You might like to use it when your project has some degree of uncertainty
Customise your RAID log
So often we hear users saying how project software tools have set ways of doing things. The sort of annoying restrictions that prevent them from matching their required policies. We know that although most teams have similar approaches to risk and
Planner using calendars instead of Gantts
We all know how important planning is to a successful project. Therefore even for small projects it is always good to have a plan. Planner is about as easy as it gets when it comes to planning tools. However still
Free project reporting – Planner does it again
For most organisations project reporting seems like a huge challenge. Often they spent lots of time and money on systems to try and make it work. But in practice they could be missing a simple hack to fix it. And even