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Continuous Visibility, No More Dashboards

Project Management Planet — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 22:03:15 +0000

Tired of the business asking you questions about your software that you don’t know the answer to? Let’s get some visibility! This presentation covers the journey from how James Brown and his team evolved visibility in their systems, reduced those 3am calls, proposes throwing those overhead dashboards in the bin...

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Restart in Project Management

Project Management Planet — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 17:30:50 +0000

Diana Larsen and Ainsley Nies define the project liftoff as the activity that will “generates the momentum teams need to overcome the inertia presented by lack of common purpose, unclear communication channels, undefined working relationships, and other areas of ambiguity. A liftoff also provides the positive force that moves a...

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The Pomodoro Technique

Project Management Planet — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 11:12:06 +0000

The Pomodoro Technique is a time management tool; we’ll see how to work with it as freelancers and in a team. The technique is not only related to programming, but was invented by a programmer: it’s based on timeboxing on periods of 25 minutes called Pomodoros (tomatoes) from the shape...

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Scrum Velocity for Non-Agile Teams

Project Management Planet — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 21:45:19 +0000

This short article provides an approach to adapt the Scrum concept of velocity to traditional project teams that are working without using the sprints/iterations of Agile project frameworks. In Scrum, velocity is how much product backlog effort a team can handle in one sprint. This can be estimated by viewing...

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Visual Project Management

Project Management Planet — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:43:35 +0000

Many project tracking taskboards look like they were imposed on the team. They are monochromatic, small and rarely providing too much useful information. A clear and informative taskboard is the heart of a successful team. It keeps everyone focused, radiates loads of information useful on many occasions. This video explains...

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Metrics in Distributed Product Development

Project Management Planet — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 12:17:40 +0000

In project management, the measurements and metrics are important activities for successful product development. This article describes a set of metrics successfully used in industrial practice in distributed product development. Based on the experiences, the reasoning for selecting these metrics was that they are easy to capture and can be...

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Scrum BurnUp Charts

Project Management Planet — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:50:54 +0000

A Scrum BurnUp Chart is a specific Big Visible Chart that is used to show progress for a release or iteration. The horizontal axis represents Time and the vertical axis represents Scope. For a release burn up the horizontal axis is used to represent iterations while for an iteration burn...

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Measurements for Agile Software Development Organizations

Project Management Planet — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:38:33 +0000

This video presents an agile framework for organizational measures based around the improvement goals of Better, Faster, Cheaper.

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Sustainable Pace

Project Management Planet — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:34:13 +0000

This article discusses sustainable pace as an essential element to long term well being in project management. In Scrum projects, the team needs to be comfortable speaking up and pushing back; the Scrum Master needs to help shield them and Product Owner, to listen. There needs to be a safe...

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Root Cause Analysis for Software Project Managers

Project Management Planet — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:29:50 +0000

Risk management and reduction is an important activity for the project manager. Accidents will always happen and corrective action is then needed to deal with issues encountered during projects. Unfortunately, actions taken to resolve a problem often only address the problem itself, not its underlying causes. This article explains the...

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