The planning in your calendar: Useful or not?
When giving demos of Timewax, customers often ask me whether they can also make the planning part of their calendar (for instance in Outlook). They would like to have two-way processing: everything they plan in Timewax should end up in their calendar and every item that employees plan in their calendars should end up in Timewax. But does that make sense? We will discuss this topic in detail in this blog.
Detailed planning? 3 deciding factors
If you create many small tasks and include in your planning, you can end up "blowing up" you planning. The risk is that you will end up spending your entire day on updating your planning, especially in a dynamic environment that requires many changes. This blog will explore what alternatives there are and what factors determine whether you should plan in detail or not.
Scrum: no more need for a planning tool?
These days Scrum has become essential for software development. Scrum is a successful method, which fundamentally changes the way projects are organized. The method does not employ any traditional ways of budgeting planning or reporting on project progress. So will a planning tool offer added value within Scrum projects? In this blog we are going to find out.
Process or system driven implementation?
Timewax will talk about the decisions that you need to make in order to successfully implement your planning software. Part 3: Process or system driven implementation.
Big bang or phased implementation?
Timewax explains in a number of blogs on what you should make a decision to implement your planning software successfully. Part 2: Big bang or phased implementation?
Central or decentralized implementation of planning software?
You have opted for new project & resource planning software. Now is the time for implementation. Just a matter of doing, right? Or maybe you should reconsider the approach? I will explain in a number of blogs what you have to make a decision on to make the implementation successful. Part 1: the central or decentralised implementation of your planning software.
Flexibility is the norm, but in sustainable form
There are more and more signals that the future labor organization without far-reaching forms of flexibility will not last long. The discussion on flexibilization focuses mainly on the distinction between 'bad' and 'good' flexibility. This blog contains a number of topics on what will now be called 'sustainable flexibilization'.