Project Blog

A place where we and our friends blog about project management, SaaS, security and much more.

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Tuesday, 25 May 2010

Seven tips for successful management

I regularly find myself reading the thoughts and opinions of experts on management and how I can be a better manager. I'm never actually surprised by what I read – I think most of it is obvious. At the same time it's easy to agree with what you've...
By Maha Bouzeid 10:45    4 Comments
Friday, 21 May 2010

Scrum in Practice

This is a translation to English of a blog by Björn Eriksen. The original can be found in Swedish at the Project Blog @ www.projectplace.se Scrum Scrum is said to be a very easy method for handling complex projects. This is true. The foundations f...
By Björn Eriksen 10:24    0 Comments
Friday, 09 April 2010

Project Management's five deadly sins

70% of all IT projects fail Since the mid-1980s, the Standish Group has published the world's largest study on IT projects - the Chaos Manifesto (formerly called the Chaos Report). Over the years they have examined over 70,000 projects, and what’s...
By Erik Fors-Andrée 17:01    4 Comments
Monday, 25 January 2010

Signal to Noise Ratio

If you have ever spent time dealing with radios or high-end audio equipment, you have probably heard of the signal to noise ratio. Simply put, this is the amount of signal that goes from a source to a receiver, say from a recording to your speaker...
By Patrick Gray 15:52    0 Comments
Thursday, 12 November 2009

How I learned about Feedback

What is feedback anyway? I looked it up and found this to be rather descriptive, accurate and short. “The return of information about the result of a process or activity” – The Free Dictionary, April 2009 Early fall 2007 I participated in a worksh...
By Ola Ellnestam 15:34    1 Comments