The agile coach has the responsibility to build the team into a self-organizing unit that can make its own decisions and resolve its own conflicts as well as collaborate as a team to deliver the product. Building a team is much more than building a working group. ‘Going Agile – Project Management Practices’ says the… Continue reading Building a Team with Collaborative Events
Agile methodologies suggest the use of user stories that are specific to a role. Personas are one way of representing these roles. User Story As Gloria J. Miller writes in ‘Going Agile – Project Management Practices’ the format for user’s story should include a title and the information on the role of the user, the… Continue reading Visualization in Projects – User Roles and Personas
Sankey diagram is a data visualization tool that can be used to visualize multidimensional data in different ways. Originally, they were used to visual the flow of resources such as energy or material. The important features of Sankey diagrams is that they represent the physical flow from a source to a target related of a… Continue reading Project Visualization: Sankey Diagram of Project Effort – by Gloria J. Miller
Recently, we published a few recommendations for visualization practices in projects, so let us visualize these recommendations through this board. Any identifying objects for the project or the customer are removed from this version The first time I saw this picture was in a project retrospective review meeting. I thought “are we playing a game?”.… Continue reading Project Visualization: Retrospective Review
I have worked in many different types of projects: large government contract with more than 600 people; small projects with five to seven people; software development projects with fewer than 60 people; client organizations in different industries. In all of my experience, I have never worked on a project where the teams worked with no… Continue reading Some agileist live in an alternative universe
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!
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?
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.
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