Project Managment

The leaves are changing, the coffee is spiced, and your emails remain unanswered. “Let’s circle back after the holidays” season is officially upon us. Ugh. Whether you’re in sales, heading up an internal project, or just trying to get some feedback from your boss, getting attention this time of year…

The waterfall methodology is a project management planning process that uses a linear, sequential life cycle; whereby each phase of the project must be completed before the next one starts (Pinto, 2020). In software development, there are six phases: planning (also known as process of gathering requirements for the project)…

Since being on furlough from March all through 2020, to finally being notified that I am losing my job in August due to a ‘workforce reduction’ in my previous company, I’ve been searching through and applying to countless job postings almost on a daily basis. During the search, there had…

VS Alumni Highlight: Daniel Ruales, Product Manager at Soar.com. Learn all about his experience in the Utah tech community, how he built a career in product management and how you can too! About Daniel: “The idea of creating, guiding, and launching a product was something that lit a fire in…

Common Practices for Maintaining Adept Teams — Distributed, Coordinative Project Management Often in the day-to-day mumblings around crypto, especially in the Ethereum community, the conversations around governance continually evolve. Now that more literature has become available on the topic [1, 2, 3, 4], we must strive to continue to dive deeper into these discussions around privacy, governance, and community; doing so…

It is easy to understand why product teams with low autonomy, hard delivery-date pressures from stakeholders, and not-empowered product managers tend to end up in the “feature factory” anti-pattern. Note: I’m not sure about the origins of the feature factory term, but it basically represents those product teams who operate…