Extreme Planning by Mike Griffiths spells out the common sense idea that project planning for software development is not just a big plan up front that never changes, but more of an iterative process that evolves as the solution is developed. Software development projects are difficult to accurately schedule up front, because there are too [...]

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Brian Benzinger at Solution Watch writes about a new web-based PM and Document management tool called Solodox. This tool sounds like a great way to manage docs and projects as a team. I am going to keep an eye on this: Solodox, which launched in alpha last month, is a free web-based word processor and [...]

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Project managers sometimes wonder about how often they need to check status on their projects. Unfortunately, what ends up driving the status updates is the schedule of status reports. If your communication plan calls for bi-weekly status reports you end up waiting until just before the status report is due to check in with your [...]

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