Plan your bench

We all know that bench costs money, but it doesn't mean you should not have bench, it means you need to manage it wisely.

Every project manager would do anything to get an extra week when the project is in trouble but time is a variable you may not be able to adjust.

Manage maintenance operations

Maintenance operation are requires a special management strategy. The typical problem with maintenance is the software entropy. On other words, the older your code gets the more lines of code it accumulates, the more closely coupled modules become and the higher the effort to maintain and evolve your product. So, what should we do with old software?

7 project lies that everyone has heard

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it or found it written in a report. People that run projects tend to lie and polish the words to sound fancy. Politicians do the same and running a project is also a political thing.

So, here is a summary of what you may hear and the real translation for those words.