Stay a Step Ahead of Your Competitors by Outsourcing Your App Development Project

By outsourcing an app development project you no longer need to keep a dedicated team of your own, which is a strong cost-linked factor. The best part is, you will be rest assured that the app development task is being carried out by experts who have years of experience and passion for app development. It’s certainly a big sigh of relief as it takes all your worries related to efficiency, timely delivery, quality, etc at the cost of divided attention and distractions from your core business.

Imagine a likely situation whereby a new technology makes it way to app development. Now, if you have created and deployed your own team, you would be required to arrange a trainer to help your team learn the new technology. This is a loss for you in terms of both time and money. However, outsourcing your app development project prevents all such losses and troubles, and you remain rest assured about the progress and quality of the project.

Advantages of outsourcing app development project are as follows:

• Allows you and your staff to focus on key activities

• You don’t need to increase your own staff when a project requires more developers… Read full blog here- Stay a Step Ahead of Your Competitors by Outsourcing Your App Development Project

The Good, The Bad, The Ugly- Project Manager

Working in IT industry as a Project Manager, I do come across my team members praising or complaining about Project Managers as how they have made their easy or hell in the project. Well mostly out of these are the ones who rather complain and seldom do I hear praises for the Project Managers. So is it really that grave of a situation and we can assume that all Project Managers are disciple of Hitler?

Well not so, I think there are 3 categories of PM – Good, Bad and Ugly. They as the name confers may not be like that in reality and it is the perception of the team members against the Project Manager. I know you must be getting confused here, so let’s evaluate each of these characteristics:

1. Good Project Manager – This is one, whom we will associate from the eyes of team members as the one who plans well, approves leaves of teams, takes pain to deliver projects, helpful and sensitive. These characteristics may be helpful in terms of employee satisfaction but they may not be in the eyes of Employer as for them you are too friendly with team and this friendliness removes the fear factor amongst them. With this token- Is Good project manager indeed a bad one, not with the above example. A good project manager is indeed a person who is friendly with the team but not too friendly such that people fear him not and start believing in laissez-faire. A good PM does exemplary work, motivates team/spirit, mitigates risks and issues, meets client expectation and other things that keep project status in Green but what he also does is take corrective actions if things are going haywire, manage people and see their timings in office, have a way to escalate and report if any team member is under-performing or is not adhering to company policies. With doing this what team members have always at the back of their mind is that there is a PM who can heed to their problems/issues at hand but he is also there with a Vulcan eyes who can catch them if they are wrong footed.

2. Bad Project Manager – Now this is the biggest drainer in an organization and this is what one should be careful about. A Bad PM is the one who has limited functional/technical knowledge and even then manages a team of IT developers. This PM will never be able to comprehend the daily nuances of software development..Read more –The Good, The Bad, The Ugly- Project Manager

Why Web Based Project Management Is The Future

Project management is pivotal to success of every project. But traditional means of project management have become obsolete now as they are not as effective as expected for some domains like software development. With traditional approach, project managers often face problems in planning, monitoring and controlling. But significant advancement in technology in IT has brought forward a modern approach called web based project management. It helps you effortlessly, effectively track the status of your project from the beginning to very end.

It gives you an assurance that your project resources, expenses, time and equipment are all worth to make your project a success. Web based project management gives rise to collaboration, which is one of the major concerns of project managers who use desktop based software that requires installation on different machines.

 

Web based project management ensures that all the documents related to the project are  available at one place at any given moment. Besides, any member of the project team can access the information from any part of the world through any web browser, which boosts performance, productivity and efficiency. Collaborative features of web based project management helps team members send instant messages, set up email alerts and share files… read full blog- Why Web Based Project Management Is The Future

Key Project Management Methodologies: PRINCE2, NPI, RAD, Scrum and Waterfall

Is project management really a conundrum of almost every project manager? Well, experts say not for those who know to bring key project management methodologies to their advantage. A cutting-edge project management methodology is designed to assist project managers in flawlessly dealing with problems and ensuring timely completion.

Moreover, a project management methodology allows project managers to set different tasks to complete a project and manage ad-hoc resources as and when the need arise.

Usually, there are five processes in a project management methodology

• Initiate
• Plan
• Execute
• Monitor
• Close

An organization that takes the responsibility of completing a project for a customer has to deploy a project manager, right resources and a capable team to ensure the same. Therefore, a project management methodology acts nothing less than a savior for a project manager who is responsible for the entire project in the end. In this blog, I am discussing five most popular project management methodologies: PRINCE2, Scrum, Waterfall, NPI and RAD… Read Full Blog at – Key Project Management Methodologies: PRINCE2, NPI, RAD, Scrum and Waterfall