‘Methodologies’ Articles at ChillX Education Blog

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!So you plan being a project manager or currently are a project manager but want to differentiate yourself from the rest of the crowd, then look no further read this post and gain some insight on the trends that add value in project management especially this year. At ChillX.com we teach these trends in our course Get... 

So you have been given a project which to everyone else is small. Well don’t take this project lightly, small projects have a more challenges over larger ones. Why you may ask. the simple reason is because they are small we tend to skip a few steps and before you know it you have blown the budget, extended the time deadlines and have to do a lot of rework. If you want to stand out from the crowd... 

During our Course Get Real – The Art of Project Management that is conducted by the team at ChillX.com we go through the Project Management life cycle in detail. Most organizations do not have a formal structure when it comes to Project Management. While most people are not formally skilled in project methodology, taking a role in a project team can be great for your career as it gives you the exposure... 

You had planned a specific date to deliver the project but for some reason you can see that you are missing the milestone or delivery date. This could have occurred due to various factors such as last minute requirement changes, lack of resources, people having left the project midway due to various reasons, etc etc. What do you do? The best way to handle such a situation is to understand the areas... 

Following from Part 1 of how to be a Project Manager. This post focuses on additional management skills that you need to learn to be successful in this field. 1. Communication is key If you can communicate to your team and clients in a professional and clear manner, then you are close to the key success factors. As a project manager you will have to deal with both written and oral communications. Examples... 

Most of us have dreams to be Project Managers in Companies and lead teams. Often though we get confused how to go about being a Project Manager. The first thing to remember is project management can be taught to a person. You need to have project management skills to manage change. It’s important to remember that you need to be flexible and adapt to change quickly to be successful in this stream... 

At ChillX.com we are continuously challenged by having to work with people from varied backgounds. Some of the team members work from remote locations while some are working face to face as a team onsite. In such instances project management is challenged day in and out and you learn from various strategies on how to deal with team members. In any project you will get 4 kinds of individuals: Individual... 

Web development projects involve human beings building a superb application for either business or the community. In such a dynamic environment can Gantt Charts do justice in controlling and managing human behaviour? Gantt  charts have a purpose but they are much for well suited for very predictive projects or production lines with machines. What is the point of using a technique that needs a predictive... 

Having worked with a few web projects under our belt and having worked at ChillX.com we must say that at times the so called formal project management can be an overkill. Now all you project managers out there please don’t take this personally. It’s an opinion and there is no right and wrong way as long as the project is successfull. The end result and the journey to get to the result is...