Collaborative Tools for PM?
People need to collaborate on projects. As a follow to our blog post we want to know what type of tools are most used. Take our poll to help answer this question: Poll!
Category: Project Management
Collaborative Tools for your Agile and Distributed Teams
For managing projects in general and agile projects in particular we need to collaborate with project team members, communicate milestones, interact with clients, solve problems, and share folders, project documents, reports and tasks in real time. All this even being distributed around the world. So, the questions are how to manage such a project in… Continue reading Collaborative Tools for your Agile and Distributed Teams
Guidance on Project Documentation in Agile Projects
While searching for agile project examples, I discovered a white paper published by Fergal Mc. Govern, CEO and founder of Visible Thread, who found that IT Directors, Project Managers and Business Analyst Team Leads raised the question about the Project Documentation across a portfolio of projects. Fergal Mc. Govern explicitly describes how to apply agile… Continue reading Guidance on Project Documentation in Agile Projects
Going Agile – What does it mean?
If you need to decide how to proceed in a project, the book “Going Agile – Project Management Practices” starts with a guidance on if and how to move over to an agile methodology. The first two chapters explain what it means what changes for which projects agile practices are applicable. Even more, the benefits… Continue reading Going Agile – What does it mean?
Capitalizing agile projects could be worth millions
In Chapter 17 of “Going Agile Project Management Practices” we discuss the need to work with the finance department to establish new practices to capitalize agile project. Daniel R Greening, Ph.D., the Managing Director of Senex Rex, has published a good article on this topic: Why Should Agilists Care About Capitalization?
2013…What a year! maxmetrics successes and challenges
Once upon a time.. I was very naive to think I could spend a few days or weeks to write a book: “Going Agile Project Management Practices”. I just wanted to document some of my experience about project management specifically being agile. Well, in the end the book project took six months and involved about… Continue reading 2013…What a year! maxmetrics successes and challenges
Addressing agile challenges
At the PMI Global Congress in New Orleans, I will present 10 to 12 techniques and practices that can be used to avoid or minimize the common challenges and problems faced in agile projects.
Creating a color-coded risk matrix in excel
In the book “Going Agile Project Management Practices”, I describe the use of a color-coded probability and impact matrix for classifying risks. (Figure 1) Visualizing the probability, impact, and severity of risks is a great tool for engaging project team members in risk management. Figure 1 Example Risk Matrix as Excel Bubble Chart
Agile BI and Analytics : Test Automation
The agile manifesto (www.agilemanifesto.org) suggests that working software should be delivered in short delivery cycles. To realize this, one of the practices that teams need is test automation.
Presentation on agile BI at TDWI on 19-June-2013
On 19-June-2013 at 14:45, I will give a presentation on 25 techniques, guidelines, and skills useful for agile Business Intelligence at the TDWI European Conference. The topics for the presentation are outlined in Figure 1