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Documentation and agile IT projects: never the twain shall meet?

What is the place of technical documentation in agile projects? During one of the projects I was running, a colleague came up to me and...

The Kanban method, or how to process one request at a time

Is your organisation sagging under a mountain of requests? Then the Kanban method may be just the thing for you! How do you react when...

Use emails, text messages and other message types sparingly!

How can you avoid deluging your co-workers with messages and use the right communication tool wisely? Mara has a few tips for you....

Peer guidance – a practical tool for assimilating other people’s ideas

In theory, we all agree that two heads are better than one. Yet in practice, we sometimes struggle to take fully on board the suggestions...

Your projects, one month at a time

Once a project manager, always a project manager This post comes following a conversation with my sister where she listed everything she...

A year for you

If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got. – Ford Project manager; what a great job! Each...

Why do meetings get such bad press?

Who hasn’t heard a colleague complain about having too many meetings or wasting time attending a conference that is pretty, or even...