Inhale Requirements, Exhale Solutions
In-between project management, life, and love: resilient and durable SaaS product development needs a steady and vigorous PM software solution. Just like our relationships.
We are products of the system developed by people.
Today, nine times out of ten, such a system consists of software products that guide and shape our lives, while product development often manages human growth.
Whether through web or communication tools, social networks or personal collaboration, professional use or industrial deployment, artificial intelligence or autonomous vehicles, software engulfs us like the air we breathe.
We touch our mobile or desktop devices each day more than our partners, kids, pets, pens, or anything else — combined. This is quite a dais our binary invention resides at.
And, that’s just the beginning.
Speaking in business terms, it’s a great thing for the software industry and new product development. Driven by our innovation and VCs funding coming on the heels of 4IR, markets and applications’ niches grow by each day.
But, just as our lives need responsible management — be it through building meaningful habits or Stoicism, Sinek’s Why, classic literature, or any other source of inspiration and determination that allows for perpetual self-improvement essential to thriving — so does the software.
It’s as a living thing, with a life cycle and shelf period that demands constant reevaluation and updates.
Consequently, there’s a certain level of product development responsibility and obligation towards society: Intentions and approach to business goals might not only improve but also define someone else’s views, principles, deeds, life.
While all of us are certainly accountable for our actions and their brunt — software impact is undeniable nowadays.
Entrepreneurs, developers, and creative hubs, even the regulators, are well aware of this. The majority of them strive to balance the whole equation prudently and responsibly just as the skipper takes care of potential broaching while sailing downwind.
That’s where project management in product development comes into the picture, that is the story, erm, to trimmer’s aid — in terms of knowledge, skills, tools, and resources available as well as the nifty and seminal way of thinking.
Now, all of us develop skillful or effective, attractive or clever, that is to say, nifty ways in which we approach project management in product development cycles. Some of them work better than others.
However, there are only a handful of software solutions that can so strongly and positively, indeed seminally influence project outcome as Nifty Project Management.
It allows your project management techniques in the context of product development to intertwine progressively — which is today a prerequisite, not an option — just like the INFJ and ESTP couple do: in a compatible, complementary, irresistibly iridescent, and copiously efficient manner.
Even in an occasional long-distance relationship, like, for instance, Helen and Mike.
Chasing West Coast Sunrises
Helen was a 30-year-old, short-haired, intelligent, and well-educated businesswoman with a major in sociology from Tulane University, Louisiana, working in Silicon Valley as Principal Product Manager in a SaaS company.
She enjoyed good literature and movies, lived healthily, ran five miles each day, cycled to work, liked to grab a bite at Buck’s Restaurant, and loved to soak up sunrises at The Palo Alto Baylands Nature Preserve with her Canon 5D at hand.
Helen was an affectionate, content, and caring person, observing and listening to a lot. She spoke her opinions truthfully, shared views confidently yet assertively, with equal respect to others and herself. A believer, open to permanent improvement, she never allowed the cattiness of others to bring her down, and always owned her mishaps.
Emotionally independent and self-sufficient, she was an extraordinary knowledgeable professional in a business enterprise with an amazing potential that was about to harness the winds of exceedingly competitive, customer-first industry.
Consequently, Baylands and burritos in marshlands might have to await Helen for a while.
The mood in the conference room at the company’s HQ was bright, as the rays of morning sunlight painted vivid outlines of playful hand shadow puppets and animals on the wall, without single writing on it.
Twenty-six people sat in Herman Miller chairs and bean bags: a rather peculiar mishmash of creative thinkers, software architects, developers, programmers, testers, systems engineers, analysts, consultants, product owners — all but one handpicked by Helen and Head of HR.
Pelican State heroine was personally selected by Glenn, the company’s CEO and 20-year corporate veteran of software behemoth in Redmond, Washington; he recruited Helen after her four-year stint at search engine colossus from West Coast.
Two huge whiteboards on the wall bristled with hand-written Kanban flowcharts elaborating in detail all workflow stages, resource allocations, communication pipelines, productivity KPIs, process roles, and myriad remarks.
Dash-lines, letters, columns, and rows — enriched with a few flowers and personal notes, testimonials of customary positive vibes that stemmed from the excellent work relationships and upcoming holiday season — created a three-color roadmap with rolling-wave and continuous timelines.
Additional decorations came in the form of yellow, green, orange, and pink stickers that broke down all functional requirements, features, integration stages, and real-life data requirements of the flagship app company was working on.
To people outside the room, this project management artwork might have looked like a Christmas tree in Wonderland as they all felt like Alice. To those in the room, two whiteboards represented the raison d’être of the previous quarter.
Development Bud and Blossoming Potentials
“This product is the game-changer for us,” Helen opened the meeting.
“With companies shifting to the cloud just like you guys shift to the new 16-inch MacBook Pros — all ya’ll already have them — we can seize the chance to make a great impact. For the last couple of months, we’ve been researching the market, analyzing trends, evaluating risks, crunching numbers, and envisioning this baby, wasting marker pens, burning midnight oils.
“Finally, we’re there, at the last mile. We face exciting, demanding, and awesome-sauce two months in front of us with a no margin for error. Come December and launch, our customers will immerse themselves into this product with full-bore weigh up. Our marketing and sales guys, and all of us, need users to have out-of-this-world-experience and we have to stay ahead of their expectations,” she continued as people in the room scrambled for their notes and files, mumbling in surprise.
The trigger was timeline; the release was a full month and a half earlier than initially planned, which effectively annulled all whiteboard elaborations.
“We have a great team — no, the best team — in place: you guys epitomize our corporate values and culture, you are the salt of the earth, and I wouldn’t want to work with anyone else on this,” Helen continued unflinchingly.
“Our discernment, development, execution, and project management shall be top-notch, as always, even when we hit the wall. Thus, we’ll be mobile, agile, worthwhile, and versatile on this one because, yes — the new clock is already ticking.
“And here is why. A couple of weeks ago, Glenn found out that our direct competitor plans to launch a similar product in the first half of next year — please don’t ask me how he did that; finders keepers, I guess — and we need to beat them. We need to have a few months’ head start.
“Ann’s marketing wizards can fit into this new schedule to secure our first-mover advantage and strong brand recognition, while all of us in this room are in charge of baseline customer loyalty produced by superb user’s functionalities we’ve envisioned together. Once we achieve that beachhead, I say, let the competition come — we’re simply better.
“This situation leaves us with 45 days to compress in the timeline. And, guys, we have this under control — here’s how we’re going to do it.
“Besides, I’m meeting Mike in Solvang for Christmas, right after the launch — just like all of you plan to spend time with your loved ones — and I do not intend to miss that,” she concluded the salvo with a smile, her trademark, and turned the 70” display on.
Obstacles and Ways
Two weeks earlier, when Glenn informed her of newsflash and popped up the can-we-do-it question, Helen already had the answer. She was not into the gradual release of their software and there was no time to strengthen the team with proper resources; like the best NHL coaches, she knew that players needed some time to gel.
The obstacle was the way.
Helen’s path laid in improved project management in new product development. If she were to win this battle — and there was no other possible outcome in her head — the frontlines were to be set at improved productivity, better time tracking, enhanced collaboration, and supreme situational awareness.
To achieve that, Helen needed better project management software than the one they’ve already used. She spent a week comparing alternatives.
Some were solid but void of discussions and documentation, the others were without native analytics and milestones tracking — all fundamentally important to Helen.
After much pondering and consultations with Mike, she opted for the niftiest one.
It completely fitted the bill of company’s requirements, plus it was the same PM tool that served Mike so well during Serkuer’s project and, in effect, gave two of them an unforgettable vacation at Padre Island in Texas.
Helen downloaded the demo and took a few test runs — juiced up with unnecessary scenarios because she wanted to train hard and fight easily. She also Skyped the New York-based vendor; she needed to look into some particular questions and to feel them in direct contact.
Guys turned out to be well-deserving of their reference list which included Apple, Verizon, L’Oreal, IQM, among others. They were perceptive, thorough, proactive, and supportive which gave her an extra level of confidence in her project which, she knew for a fact, necessitated resilient adaptation to every random situation.
The solution was surprisingly simple, easy, fun to use, and rather secure.
Helen’s team — and other departments in the company — could use it for real-time project discussion and collaboration between members, sharing ideas and collecting feedback.
Once cleared with Glenn, and Ann, Helen would turn those discussions into quick action items by converting them into tasks, and later launch documents for project members to collaborate at.
Even if team communication was related to something outside of the project scope, in effect, the whole company could stay better connected, regardless of topics.
Solution’s Afterglow
Furthermore, Helen could tailor tasks workflow as much as she needed to.
The Kanban-style view would enable her to flexibly organize and prioritize work while easily managing feedback and deadlines. The software would allow her to provide context for her tasks tying them to milestones, which were crucial for meetings the tight timelines.
Then, there was much-needed transparency in the project overview which would enable her to dig deeper, view the entire team’s tasks, activities, and time logs. This was fundamental; a 45-day compression project’s timeline could be achieved only if the complete workload was balanced properly.
To accomplish that, Helen could create team alignment around all project’s initiatives, phases, and particularly sprints through milestones, and then, she would intersect them with task lists to clarify objectives of her agile teams.
The real kicker, though, was the possibility to compound all of these functionalities with real-time tracking of tasks and to stay on top of the whole workload.
The software would allow her to receive details about the project’s time logs of each task and every team member. She could then reference tracked hours to keep the entire team’s workloads in check, not to mention to optimize them, which in her case was the crown jewel — every chance she could get was the chance she intended to seize.
Ryan, the company’s CFO, an ERP evangelist for the last fifteen years and control freak, among everything else particularly liked this option. He’d have a clear overview of billable hours he was to report back to Glenn. Two of them founded the company together and were fully aware that, at some point, they would need VC injection; broaching was not an option on this sailing.
Jeff, a level headed Coloradan in charge of the technical support team placed to take a central stage after the launch, was ecstatic about collaborative documents feature of Nifty solution. Project’s discussions between Helen’s team could give his guys fecund soil to auto-sort files for quick access and create verdant documentation all over the place — on their computers, Dropboxes, Google Drives.
When she saw the software, Ann — San Diego-born CMO with the amount of personal energy on par with USS Ronald Reagan carrier group her father was in charge of — suggested to Helen to simply nickname the tool the Aegis, not only as a Zeus’ shield but as radar capable to track various target-rich environments and guide her marketers’ efforts. It was just a way for the U.S. Navy daughter to express her delight with added values of solution she considered quite valuable to the company’s top-line.
Helen was enjoying the view of autumn’s orange afterglow that contrasted San Francisco estuary as she took a sip of ice-cold Skinnygirl California white wine on her terrace. The working day was incessantly rewinding itself in the sky.
The only notion that twenty-six members of her team had to share once she concluded the new project management software presentation was — what are we waiting for?
She smiled, visualizing their facial expressions and overall vibe.
All of them were big thinkers with strong skill sets, dedication, and belief. Helen led her team with a unique level of approachability, honesty, respect, and empathy. Glenn was visionary par excellence, a truly representative sample of Generation X and the essence of people empowerment.
They were evangelists of the product with the sound vision — the outcome of a combined effort of all employees. The whole endeavor was much more than the sum of its parts and the new project management solution could only make the final amount larger, particularly with the timeline compressed.
The software was an improvement over what they’ve been using thus far and allowed for seamless migration of pre-existing projects, users, tasks, and files, effectively multiplying the impact across all future endeavors.
In fact, by tomorrow, they’d start using it. In the morning, she needs to…
Helen’s iPhone vibrated and interrupted her thoughts; it was Mike.
“Hey, gorgeous,” she answered warmly, joyfully.
“Hey, honey. How did your meeting go? Also, you’re not going to believe what happened today!”
Bostonian With Red Wings on His Wall
A couple of hours after Helen turned the 70” display on, Mike entered his boss’ corner office on the sixth floor of Dumbo’s renovated warehouse building with large windows that offered a great view of the Brooklyn Bridge.
A 32-year old Bostonian with P.M.P. from Georgetown University was tall, handsome, and a rather gifted Project Manager.
Mike lived to explore limits and push boundaries; he was a triathlon fanatic and paragliding enthusiast that equally loved to solve complex puzzles and to delve through philosophy works of Emerson or Schopenhauer.
Mike has been wondering how things work since the age of six, when he dismantled his father’s luxury Montblanc fountain pen to pieces, to the dismay of his mother. He put it back in no time and has been relentlessly experimenting with new ideas and solutions ever since.
As a highly perceptive, honest, and humble person, a straight shooter that lived by bushido code with no time for mind games or office politics, Mike led the way by example.
He was also an exceedingly fun and outgoing conversationalist, which made him a great commodity in social interactions, whether grabbing a bite at Oxalis or on Tuesday nights at Bembe.
For the last two years, Mike has been working for Jeff, owner and CEO of one of the most prestigious web development agencies in New York City.
Jeff spared no expense to drag him from the West Coast. Mike turned down his offers twice; not for the great gig he had in the world’s leading search engine company, but because of his long term girlfriend. When Jerry upped his bid to almost indecent level, Mike yielded; she stayed behind.
On the very first day at his new job, Mike hanged a framed case with Steve Yzerman’s #19 Detroit Red Wings jersey on the wall of his office, a gift from Helen for their fifth anniversary. At the lower end of the frame was neatly engraved plate with a quote from Reinhold Niebuhr:
“Change is the essence of life; be willing to surrender what you are for what you could become.”
Since he started working for Jeff, Mike was instrumental in the agency’s exponential growth. He set up business processes, workflows, and metrics, selected the majority of now sixty-odd tech guys, trained them and made an example through his work ethics not shying away to be tough when needed.
Mike was Jeff’s golden boy and confidant at the same time, managing the team that would go through the wall for him.
In all that time, Jeff has seen Mike visibly shaken by workload just once.
Too Bright or Just Right?
“Hey, bro. Jump in!” Jeff welcomed him, putting his legs off the table while folding the latest paper issue of the Wall Street Journal he was reading.
“I told you we’re gonna get them long-term, didn’t I?” he added, grinning like a teenager, which was quite a common habit of 45-year old New Yorker.
“You should put some Venetian blinds or something on those windows,” Mike replied and sat on the chair in front of Jeff’s table. “I love the light, but at this time of day, it’s almost blinding; I don’t even know how you use your computer screen. Um, you told me we’re gonna get them?”
“Dude, you’re my screen! Yes, I told you so — you do remember Serkuer’s app, the wanna-be nemesis of yours, don’t you?” Jeff burst into laughter. “Here, let me make you my special Barista espresso, ’cause you’re gonna need it!”
Mike remembered Serkuer very well.
These guys visited the agency last spring with a very specific need for application development. Silicon Valley-based private company was an industry sector leader with a diversified portfolio of products targeting worldwide markets. They’ve peaked, and the existing software solution couldn’t service their needs anymore.
For whatever reason, Serkuer didn’t want to use any of West Coast web development agencies and went shopping across the states.
Jeff, always on the lookout for big, fat accounts, somehow pitched in. Upon emails back-and-forth and review of the agency’s credentials, Serkuer sent three executives to NYC for a couple of days to personally evaluate the potential.
The brief they brought, together with NDA for all personnel involved, was impeccable, probably the best one Mike has ever seen; these guys knew exactly what they needed. Plus, they turned out to be quite open for every constructive suggestion.
Professionals to the bone, Serkuer’s guys planned way ahead, so the timeline was great. They wanted to implement the new solution right at the beginning of Q3, which would give them space to utilize it for six months before IPO planned for the end of the year.
Finally, they wanted the whole package: vendor in charge of development would get a retainer to maintain and expand app per Serkuer’s highly ambitious plans for further growth.
Keep Changing
The account was a dream come true for every progressive web development agency. Naturally, Jeff went to great lengths to entice Serkuer during the pitch.
Agency proposed a conceptual solution for a highly reliable and extremely efficient web application that filled the brief’s bill 100% and additionally offered a couple of significant improvements, scalable and flexible to infinity.
But, that’s not why Mike remembered them.
He did so because he knew quite well that if they said yes, the agency simply did not have resources to handle such an account in the first couple of phases; his guys were already spread thin across a myriad of clients and projects.
When he mentioned that to Jeff one evening during the pitch, his boss laconically concluded that Mike would take care of that. After all, Jeff was a businessman, an outstanding CEO that took great care of his people but wasn’t afraid to stretch them when the long-term opportunities, such as this one, arose.
A few weeks later, Serkuer said yes.
Jeff and Stanley, his lawyer, flew to West Coast and signed the contract with an option for extension into the multi-year deal provided everything went well during development and deployment measured by KPIs that Mike has never seen before.
“There’s absolutely no way we can manage this successfully under such circumstances,” Mike exasperated when his boss gave him green light, and freehand, to lead Serkuer’s project the very next morning, right after Jeff’s red-eye from Cupertino. “I warned you we’re overcommitted, and yet again you went and signed what could potentially be the largest account in our books. And now, I’m in hot water — no, boiling water — and I sure as hell do not intend to work on this one with anyone other than our full-timers!”
“I know, buddy, but that’s the business we’re in: some chances come only once,” Jeff calmly replied. “Take a few days and spend them in that head shed of your clever head, and you’ll think of something, I know. Also, read that Nubur’s quote…”
“It’s Niebuhr!” Mike interrupted him, quite aggravated.
“Yeah, whatever; my point is, change something and don’t worry about our team — I’ve instructed Stanley to put some nifty bonuses in the contract. You got this, buddy! Let me know if you need anything else. Gotta run now: my daughter’s playing a soccer game and I’m dead meat if I don’t show up,” Jeff jumped off his chair. “Janice, I’ll be on my cell,” he said to his assistant.
Sitting in Jeff’s office, Mike heard him singing I’m on the top, I can’t get back as he walked through the agency’s hallway on his way out. It was the line from Coldplay’s Square One, the song both of them liked a lot.
He exhaled deeply, in the mood which was closer to the beginning of the verse Jeff sung: Under the surface trying to break through, deciphering the codes in you, I need a compass, draw me a map…
Source of Resources
Several 15-mile runs later, Mike realized that success did not depend on his people — they were top-notch experts and highly dedicated individuals that lived and breathed their work. The agency was indeed a great place to be at — not only to earn money but to create something meaningful — and all of them would go for more than a few extra miles for Serkuer’s account.
Mike’s solution was in prototyping project management for product development.
He knew that if he could trade space for time and cut corners properly, it would allow him to allocate some of the best architects, developers, programmers, quality assurance engineers, and assistant project managers to this project, without jeopardizing their work on other assignments.
On top of it, he was going on vacation with Helen to Padre Island in two months — and that was not negotiable.
What Mike needed was project management software that could follow him through — a much better than the one they already used.
He spent a couple of days evaluating available options.
Some solutions lacked crucial functionalities, others were way too pricey. The one that caught his eye was a local vendor based in Manhattan: their demo offered exactly what Mike needed.
He hopped on his Trek 520 — Mike never used his Madone SLR 6 to commute; way too expensive — and visited Nifty.
They turned out to be the breakthrough he was looking for.
Their solution was agile and adaptable, offering highly productive communication and discussions among his team members. Their pipeline offered tailored project execution which ensured effortless management of tasks, feedback, and deadlines.
Mike could oversee and fine-tune all activities and time logs, in addition to being able to align the project’s stages with milestones and cross-reference them with current workload and real-time tracking.
Timeline insights were crucial. He would have the option to balance as well as to optimize each task and team member to keep everything in check, let alone utilize a transparent overview of billable hours Jeff would most certainly want to know before rewarding the team at the end.
Mike was thrilled.
The solution was a brilliantly envisioned project management tool that somehow managed to mix software’s efficiency, efficacy, sound judgment, and perpetual learning curve with passion, empathy, and selflessness among all stakeholders. This was a rather important thing in Mike’s book: he was a firm believer in employee retention, he never lost a team member due to overcommitment, and he surely didn’t intend to do it now.
The software was also available on desktops and mobile devices, giving Mike’s team much needed cross-platform utilization and flexibility.
Believe, Relieve, and Live to Full Potentials
During the meeting with the vendor, Mike inquired about other projects already in the agency’s pipeline handled by existing software; guys migrated a rather large sample of data by the time he was ready to leave.
Finally, their references were sound. IBM, VMware, emovis, ODYN, Hemmersbach, Periscope Data, and other cloud-based companies used them as well.
Not at all surprisingly, Mike thought. Upon realizing his needs, these guys gave him all assurances they’re ready to launch their solution without an extra aid and to release software’s stored energy to propel the whole payload of the agency’s portfolio.
That’s what I need — the catapult, Mike concluded.
“This Barista espresso is plain unreal. Yes, I remember them.” Mike answered Jeff’s question, sipping his coffee. “We busted our asses to get the project done, in no small part thanks to that quite nifty PM tool. We gave Serkuer the application worthy of freaking Google, met their KPIs on budget, on time, on target, and they somehow failed to activate that multi-year extension we were, in effect, looking into as our Wholly Grail. Have I omitted something?”
“Just a tiny detail their CEO just told me on the phone, following up on yesterday’s email,” Jeff said quietly with Mona Lisa’s smile on his face. “Their pre-IPO valuations are through the roof. The guy said they feel about going public just as the nuclear icebreaker feels about the ice. And, as he neatly wrote, they want to scale our application beyond anything we ever talked about; he even attached an extension contract draft. There’s one catch, though.”
“But of course,” Mike replied sardonically.
“Here is the thing,” Jeff continued unfazed. “They want to scale our app and they want us to give them custom-made CRM — aligned to their business processes just like haute couture dress my wife wore last New Year’s Eve — and then they want to integrate all of that with a brand new interactive product they plan to launch in the first quarter of 2020.”
“I’m not even sure I want to hear the rest — although it’s a brutal new business opportunity, I’ll give you that — because I know where this is going,” Mike muttered. “Now we need to somersault again?”
“No, buddy, you don’t know where this is going,” Mike replied patiently.
Danish Surprise
“To do something like this, remote won’t cut it. They want our team on their premises, working together with their guys daily. In other words, put from my perspective, with this contract under our belt, we’ll kick off our branch office at West Coast. It’s about time, I’ve been thinking about it for a while, and this is our ride.”
“W… West Coast?” Mike stuttered, staggered.
“That sound you hear in your head and the strange sensation you feel in the stomach is called thunderstruck, my friend,” Jeff said bursting into laughter again. “Yes, that’s right. We’re going in, heavy. And, I’m sending you over there not only to manage the project but to lead our overall expansion efforts. Also, please duly note that I can read from my screen regardless of so much light in my office; thank you.”
“So, I have only one question: are you going to call Helen and tell her the news before or after we take a sip of this Talisker Port Ruighe? And, dude, you should get into Cohibas — don’t you give me that I-live-healthy-look — because some moments in life are worth living them thoroughly hedonistic,” Jeff said as he pulled out a brand new bottle and two glasses from a shelf compartment.
The town of Solvang, located in the middle of Santa Barbara’s wine country, was inspired by classic Denmark villages. It was the place where the old-world architecture of windmills, Danish bakeries, and Victorian-style houses straight out of fairy tales was meeting a month-long celebration of Christmas which included festivities, parades, and tasting the best wines California had to offer.
Helen and Mike were enjoying their breakfast at The Landsby, former legendary Pettersen Village Inn, a gleaming contemporary Scandinavian hotel on the west side of the town.
“I still cannot comprehend the last two weeks,” Helen said between two bites, radiating the utter happiness in her voice. “Glenn didn’t even want to discuss covering all expenses of this holiday after the way our launch went…”
“Honey, you and your guys achieved the impossible,” Mike interrupted her gently. “It’s quite understandable that he felt this type of reward is appropriate.”
“I know, baby. It was a great team effort, plus that nifty software was a lifesaver. The whole endeavor is on the express elevator to stardom, short of the Third World War. But, then, it’s you getting back, us living together again, being right here and right now — it’s just so overwhelming!”
“And like all of that is not enough, you have to take care of your beautiful teeth while eating that tart,” Mike added with a tender and an intriguing smile.
“What you’re talking about, silly? It’s so smooth that it practically melts in my mouth…,” Helen said a second before her fork clattered with the ringlike object in the fruit-based filling.
“No!!! You did not do that!! My goodness!” she exclaimed with uncontrolled emotion and buried her face in her hands.
“Would you?” Mike asked warmly and gently.
Inhale, Exhale, Repeat
And that’s the thing with people — products of the system that sometimes consist of software, guiding and shaping lives, even managing our growth, not to mention love life. Without it, none of us would be where we’re right now, which includes reading these lines.
As we live, we inhale reality and exhale resolute actions. We don’t always know where our roads might take us: they can lead somewhere or nowhere, can be bumpy or smooth, dark or lightened, chartered or not.
The same is in business, particularly when it comes to project management and product development — we inhale requirements and exhale solutions.
In both instances, it’s up to each one of us to find the best tools and vehicles — both nifty and seminal — to manage such a journey.
As all of us know too well, there’s something magical yet mysterious engulfing us on the voyage through known knowns and unknown unknowns in any realm of our existence.
We’re yet to receive elucidation, but as a general rule of thumb, the more we seek to improve the lives of others and ourselves, the more help we get on our way. The more we relentlessly pursue our better version waiting for us in the future, the more we’re capable of successfully managing our projects and products.
And, what is life if not one huge project with myriad products, that is our deeds and actions that create the system we strive to manage.
And that’s exactly what an outstanding project management solution should provide, and what Nifty solution delivers.
Therefore, if you come into a situation that requires you to deploy one — whether as project manager of product developer — remember that, at the end of the day, it’s a choice that shall reflect on your life and, quite possibly, even give you a push in your relationships.
To have software which could give you an outstanding business solution — harvesting appropriate fruits of team success in the process — and bring you even one step closer to a great love story you deserve, now, that would be quite a nifty move, don’t you think?
