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Project management: Tips, tools, best practices

CIO

What is project management? Project management is a business discipline that involves applying specific processes, knowledge, skills, techniques, and tools to successfully deliver outcomes that meet project goals. Project management steps Project management is broken down into five phases or life cycle.

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Plane takes on Jira with open source project management tool for software teams

TechCrunch

Companies on the hunt for comprehensive project management and issue tracking tooling aren’t exactly short of options, with the likes of Atlassian’s Jira serving software development teams well for more than two decades.

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JetBrains presses go on its Space project management platform for developers

TechCrunch

In beta since last year, JetBrains says it had more than 35,000 requests from companies to join the beta. Space combines general collaboration tools: chats, team and project management, meeting scheduling and documents with workflows for specific verticals.

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20 traits of highly effective project managers

CIO

To thrive, project managers need to have and hone a complex combination of technical, business, and interpersonal skills. Effective project managers must know how to define the scope of a project , identify necessary resources, and schedule those resources — all part of the technical aspect of the job.

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Process, Product, and Profitability: Everything You Need to Know

Speaker: Michael Cardy - Red Hat Chief Strategist, Jason Tanner - CEO of Applied Frameworks, and Mike Mace - VP of Market Strategy at UserTesting

Companies have accomplished this through usability testing and real-time qualitative feedback from customers. In this webinar, leaders in digital transformation and project management will explain their tactics for usage testing and turning customer feedback into actionable insights.

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?-driven project management: when is the optimal time to give up?

Erik Bernhardsson

It's your friendly project management theorician. You might remember me from blog posts such as Why software projects take longer than you think , which is a blog post I wrote a long time ago positing that software projects completion time follow a log-normal distribution. Project management depends on ?.

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Selecting a Software Development Company in 2024

TechEmpower CTO

Given this diversity, it's important to be selective in the development services company with whom you choose to partner. In the 25 years that TechEmpower has been in business, we’ve seen thousands of companies come and go. This article will primarily focus on locating and evaluating development companies, rather than design firms.