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 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

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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

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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