To write something less stuffy, I recently spent an inordinate amount of time testing project management tools.
From a distance they all look the same – Gantt charts.
Up close the differences are striking. Every tool has one special feature they concentrate on, but most manage to ignore the basic usability aspects.
Some special features [...]
Agile methodologies do not eliminate conventional project management methodologies, but complement and change them.
Long term planning, dependency tracking, Gantt visualizations are perfectly rounded out with velocity tracking and frequent revisioning.
Your development team can concentrate on the immediate issues and still keep your project manager updated.
Your project manager has hard data early in [...]
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