Today’s Project Management Blueprint: A Comparison of Lean, Agile, Scrum, and Kanban
Agile frameworks have shaped project management discourse for decades. This explainer traces the antecedents of Lean, Scrum, and Kanban and compares their approaches to managing software development projects.

Darren Hagman
Kanban History: From 1950s Factory Floor to Today’s Remote Teams
From auto manufacturing in the 1950s to the modern digital workplace, Kanban’s evolution holds valuable lessons for today’s distributed project teams.

Olamide Olanipekun
How to Use Coaching in Organizational Change Management
Whether it’s introducing a new organizational structure, tool, or process, project managers are often agents of change. Help team members adapt and thrive with these four strategies.

Lir Cowman
3 Essential Project Manager Skills and How to Hone Them
Managing projects is largely about managing people. These three soft skills can help project managers build a strong team, gain trust, and create a positive culture.
Kata Török-Pál
What Is a Product Owner? A Project Manager’s Guide
It’s not uncommon for project managers to be assigned duties that should belong to a product owner. Find out how you can use this role confusion to your advantage, and increase your skills in both arenas.

Elizabeth A. Anderson
Using Agile Spreadsheets for Discovery Estimation
Estimation tools abound but none is as flexible and accessible as the humble Agile spreadsheet. Here’s why you should consider customizing your own to calculate discovery estimates.

Mauricio Silva
Is the Citizen Developer the New Face of Agility?
In an era of talent shortages and fast delivery, the low-code market is taking off. Citizen development on a low-code platform may be the solution your organization needs.

Bryan Bates
Automate Your Way to Better Project Management
Software automation tools can help project managers streamline tasks that distract from more crucial responsibilities. We took a deep dive into Jira’s automation capabilities and asked Toptal project managers for their thoughts on how to best automate workflow.

Greig O'Brien
Project Management Cheat Sheet
There is no perfect framework that can be applied universally. Project managers should tailor processes to work best with their teams and develop skills that will serve them well throughout their career.
Adi Behlulovic
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