It is fortunate that we do not live in the times of the Wild West: now deadline means the time before which a project must be completed, and developers are not shot if they fail to deliver it on time. However, missed schedules still may mean life or death of your project or revenue targets. Nowadays, deadline in software development is a lifestyle and is associated with a lack of sleep, an abundance of coffee mugs around the monitor and rush.
No matter how accurately the timelines are estimated - a violation of the deadline still may occur. And the thing is not just in the developers' inability or ability to work to deadlines. There are many reasons that can influence IT project schedule and some of them are beyond the control of software engineers. Let's see why things can go wrong and what you can do to help your software developers meet the deadline.
Project managers (PMs) each year face challenges to bring projects through to a successful completion. The year 2015 will be no different from in years past as far as this is concerned. Trends for this year within this field will include a continuation of some of the same tools popular in 2014, but with a bit more emphasis on other tools and innovations. Project managers as usual will need to be flexible enough to embrace these trends where necessary to improve their success rate. We provide you with some of the trends we see being important in the following information.