Scrum: An Agile ERP Framework for a Successful ERP Implementation

By Allison Katz

Implementing an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system can be a complex and challenging undertaking for small to mid-sized businesses. Despite the potential benefits of implementing an ERP system, many companies face significant challenges that can derail the project. Many businesses experience cost overruns, timeline delays, lack of user adoption, lost momentum and project rigor. This…

Scrum Best Practices for Remote Teams

By Ruby Castaneda

As many organizations are adopting a distributed team model to tap into a broader talent pool and increase flexibility, project management processes can become impacted and require adjustment or improvement to continue being successful. Project management teams who use agile frameworks like Scrum have likely faced this issue. This post will explore three Scrum best…

State Tax Break for New Jersey Cannabis Companies

By Ruby Castaneda

On May 8, 2023, Governor Phil Murphy signed into law A3946, which effectively decoupled New Jersey from Federal Internal Revenue Code (“IRC”) section 280E. The bill, which has been making its way through the New Jersey legislature since May 12, 2022, states, “For cannabis licensees, New Jersey gross income under subsections b. and k. of N.J.S.54A:5-1…

Next Steps to Streamline Your Processes

By Allison Katz

So, you have completed the First Steps to Streamline Your Processes and have documented and mapped out your current processes (your “current state”). Now you are ready to take the next steps: analyze your current state, design a future state and manage the change. 1. Analyze With your documentation in hand, analyze the existing processes…

Will the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Increase the Cost of Real Estate Construction?

By Allison Katz

Recent inflation has created a strain on real estate construction projects, as commodity and building material prices have soared. An infusion of expenditures from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (“IIJA”) is designed to spur development of the infrastructure and transportation sectors, which may create demand-side competition between real estate construction and infrastructure and transportation…

How Work From Home Is Impacting Residential Real Estate

By Allison Katz

Many employers are now offering to accommodate hybrid work arrangements. This is already having an effect on commercial real estate as landlords are downsizing office spaces in response to tenant demand. This shift is also having a growing effect on residential rental spaces as well, as landlords begin to offer new and creative accommodations in…