State of IT project management
For 20 years now, the Colombian Association of Systems Engineers - ACIS - has been developing the IT Project Management Conference. Within the framework of this event, the report on the results of the IT Project...
Category Tools
The best project management tools
Projects are a fundamental part of our lives. Both on a personal and professional level, projects are necessary vehicles of change to bring progress to individuals, families, companies and societies. However, project management is not something that is...
The best tools for collaborative work - 2022
The last two years have seen an accelerated change in the way we collaborate with our teams. The pandemic that began in 2020 has brought with it profound transformations in the service industry and in the way we collaborate with our...
Importance of working arrangements in agility
The basic unit of construction in the agile world - including organizations - is teams. For Scrum, for example, the Scrum Team is the fundamental unit, and for the Scaled Agile Framework, Agile Teams are. But, what...
What is Kanban and how does it relate to agility?
If you talk about agility with someone, or even if you use an "agile" work management tool you will see the term Kanban recurrently. Kanban is a method that was born under a work and process management model of...
The best email clients
You might think, why Alberto decided to talk about email clients in his management blog? Well, the truth is that a big part of my job is to send and receive emails and, by the way, manage my agenda. To do this...
How agile are we? Model for assessing team maturity
Part of the consulting work I do with organizations and teams around the world includes assessing the "maturity" level of an evolving agile team or organization. Initiating a conversation and analysis of the team's state...
Agile Metrics for Teams and Projects
A few weeks ago I was having a video conference with someone about managing large-scale, distributed, multidisciplinary teams. A few years ago I coined the term "agility for adults", which somehow represents the fact that, beyond...
Which is better agile, predictive or hybrid?
This question is so common that it seems to be taken from a predefined list of questions from the audience, and it comes up in every course, webinar, workshop and conference I participate in. It is always evident the need to identify whether to be...
