Project Management

My Visualization Tips – Keys to Creative Visualization in all Project Management Phases

In the last months, we have been writing about Visualization in projects on our blog. We have shared a few tips and our experience in making projects v i s u a l. We covered not only project data in the form of charts and diagrams, but also project relevant information such as requirements, expectations,… Continue reading My Visualization Tips – Keys to Creative Visualization in all Project Management Phases

Project Management

Building a Team with Collaborative Events

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

Project Management

Visualization in Projects – User Roles and Personas

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

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Project Visualization: Sankey Diagram of Project Effort – by Gloria J. Miller

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

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Project Visualization: Retrospective Review

Recently, we published a few recommendations for visualizationĀ  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

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Visualization in Projects – Recommendations

Data visualization can help project teams envision projects progress, success, failure, risks. It enables users to create, view and manipulate data in more instinctive and effective way than with traditional reporting of just two-dimensions of columns and rows. It can be a powerful tool but we need practices in order to succeed with delivering the… Continue reading Visualization in Projects – Recommendations