How to Guide for Project Management. This series is written in partnership with TeamGantt, provider of online project management software. It’s difficult to define what a “good” project manager is these days. Every organization defines the role, and often the title, differently. Project managers are needed in many industries. As a PM, you might work on small or large teams with job duties that range from budget and timeline only to everything you can think of under the operational sun. Maybe you’re not even a project “manager” by title or you work on your own, but you’re responsible for managing work. No matter where you stand, there are things you’ll need and want to learn as you jump in to managing all of these things.
You’ve come to the right place. As a PM, you might work on small or large teams with job duties that range from budget and timeline only to everything you can think of under the operational sun. This series, written in partnership with TeamGantt, will cover both the soft skills and the hard skills. Status! Evidence Based Scheduling. Evidence Based Scheduling by Joel Spolsky Friday, October 26, 2007 Software developers don’t really like to make schedules. Usually, they try to get away without one. Most of the schedules you do see are halfhearted attempts. Hilarious! You want to be spending your time on things that get the most bang for the buck. Why won’t developers make schedules? Over the last year or so at Fog Creek we’ve been developing a system that’s so easy even our grouchiest developers are willing to go along with it. The steeper the curve, the more confident you are that the ship date is real.
Here’s how you do it. 1) Break ‘er down When I see a schedule measured in days, or even weeks, I know it’s not going to work. This forces you to actually figure out what you are going to do. If you are sloppy, and pick big three-week tasks (e.g., “Implement Ajax photo editor”), then you haven’t thought about what you are going to do. Setting a 16-hour maximum forces you to design the damn feature. 2) Track elapsed time.
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Contact us for more information. Harvest for Trello. Bring time tracking into Trello Click on a Harvest timer from a Trello card and get to work. With the Harvest Chrome Extension, you can track time without leaving your Trello account. Get the details Now you can see how your time is spent beyond the task level – every Trello card shows how much time has been tracked to it so far. Cards are also linked from your Harvest timesheet, so it’s easy to see how much time you’ve tracked from Trello. Gain insight into projects Turn tracked time on cards into insightful reports in Harvest. Compatible ONLY with the Google Chrome browser. A Quantum Immortal » KISS Project management with Trello. Update - I advise you to take a look on how the Trello team manage Trello. When I initially read about Trello, I wasn’t over excited (much like my first thought upon hearing of Stack Overflow was “oh no, yet another Q&A site”). Trello, if you haven’t had the pleasure, is a simple List Management App.
No more, no less. Then, we happened to want a little bit more order in our task management back at <Unnamed Hot New Startup I Recently Joined>. After considering several tools (somehow, always, Excel rears its ugly head in such discussions), we agreed to give Trello a shot. So far, we’re about three weeks into the process, and while I can’t yet speak for everyone, personally I’m liking the experience a lot.
Trello is a member of the “let’s keep everything simple” family of tools. Keep a “current week/sprint” listKeep three lists for Small, Medium and Large featuresMaintain a “deployed, not yet reviewed” list, and another “done, not yet deployed list” That’s it.