Sprint planning: how to plan it to achieve your goals

Sprint planning is an essential part of the Scrum management process. CONTENT What is sprint planning? Sprint planning execution 1. Sprint planning meeting 2. Past sprints review 3. Establishing your sprint goal 4. Break down the objective into tasks Resource allocation 6. Setting a time period 7. Measuring progress 8. Sprint review Benefits of successful … Continue reading “Sprint planning: how to plan it to achieve your goals”

Projects and workload: what you need to know

In project management, evaluating the work load that insists over the resources shoulders plays a fundamental role for the project Happy Ending. In an ideal world where you work with infinite resources, projects are always in-time. In the real world, on the other hand, we often have to deal with teams simultaneously involved in multiple … Continue reading “Projects and workload: what you need to know”

Motivate and monitor the use of a tool: user scores

A project management software like Twproject, to be really effective, has to be used by all the team, so, how can we valuate if and how much the software is really used? The question is apparently simple, but it hides some pitfalls. Twproject is a PM software used by different user profiles: Project managers, Workers, … Continue reading “Motivate and monitor the use of a tool: user scores”

Kanban software for project management

Kanban, is a Japanese words which means + or- sign or tag, it is part of a production organization method (called TPS) adopted in the 1950s at Toyota factories. In project management, the use of Kanban has become a real methodology that is perfectly reflected in the principles of the Agile Methodology. The Agile movement … Continue reading “Kanban software for project management”

Manage projects with WBS (Work Breakdown Structure)

The WBS (Work Breakdown Structure) is a “hierarchical decomposition of the total scope of work to be carried out by the project team to accomplish the project objectives and create the required deliverables”, at least that’s how PMBOK5 defines it.   This approach allows you to scheme-out complex projects starting from a “macro” level and gradually breaking down … Continue reading “Manage projects with WBS (Work Breakdown Structure)”

2020 Project Management Trends

It is essential to know and be aware of the 2020 project management trends. Projects have always existed and will always exist. CONTENTS 2020 Project Management Trends: Automation and Artificial Intelligence 2020 Project Management Trends: increasing the commercial value of soft skills 2020 Project Management Trends: an increasing trend towards fusion of methods 2020 Project … Continue reading “2020 Project Management Trends”

Save yourself from those creepy projects!

It’s Halloween this night and you, just like a toddler, are scared…not by vampires, witches or creepy mummies but by those projects that will never end in time nor in budget. I know it sounds familiar, but Twproject is here to help with a new fantastic release and a special 15% coupon discount for all … Continue reading “Save yourself from those creepy projects!”

New Twproject Release – Project progress check bars on Gantt

Twproject is out with a small new release including some bug fixes and a new interesting feature. Twproject 6.5.65011 includes a new bar that can be activated on your Gantt showing task progress over time. You can pick a date, or more than one and see the progress status of your task at that specific … Continue reading “New Twproject Release – Project progress check bars on Gantt”

Communicate with the project team: the best techniques to use

A good communication with team is the main method for excellent project management. In fact, effective communication allows a project to have a successful conclusion, but on the other hand, bad communication could be fatal. The project teams are in a constant state of communication: e-mails, videoconferences, phone calls, messages, face-to-face discussions, and non-verbal interactions. CONTENT … Continue reading “Communicate with the project team: the best techniques to use”

New Twproject Release – Attendance Overview & Task File Storage

We are finally out with a new great release (6.5.65009). Among lots of improvements and fixes, we include 3 new fantastic features: a dedicate page for resource attendance, 1 new widgets that will enrich your dashboard and last but not least a new way to link a specific file storage to your entire task tree. You can … Continue reading “New Twproject Release – Attendance Overview & Task File Storage”

The AGID three-year plan in the new 2019-2021 program

The three-year plan AGID (Agenzia per l’Italia Digitale, as it is often called) is officially known as the Three-Year Plan for Information Technology in the Public Administration. This is a strategic document, always published in September, which is a guide and support for digital transformation in Italy. A digital transformation also in line with what … Continue reading “The AGID three-year plan in the new 2019-2021 program”

Project management events in 2019: An overview in Italy and Europe

Project management conferences are an excellent way to meet new people, do networking and improving one’s skills. Obviously, it is not always worth participating to all of them. We thought, therefore, to do a selection of the most important events. Basically, a list of the major Project Management events that will take place in Italy … Continue reading “Project management events in 2019: An overview in Italy and Europe”

Organizational process assets and the project environment

Before starting to talk about the Organizational Process Assets, we want to spend some words in order to “contextualize” the topic. As the 6th version of the Italian PMBOK highlights, the projects exist and operate in environments that may have influence on them. Such influences can have a favorable or unfavorable impact on the project and … Continue reading “Organizational process assets and the project environment”

Process or project? What differences? What goals?

People often confuse projects with processes. Some might argue that this is only a question of semantics and that saying “project” rather than “process” does not change much. CONTENT INDEX Project vs. process: the definition Project vs. process: the common points Project vs. process: the differences Further differences between process and project Projects, projects and … Continue reading “Process or project? What differences? What goals?”