Maxmetrics released a quiz addendum for our ‘Going Agile Book Project Management Practices – Second Edition’ book. This quiz addendum includes 207 questions about the topics covered in the book on a chapter by chapter basis. There is an online version of the quiz that asks 71 questions per session across 18 chapters.
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
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
Since we announced our plans to update “Going Agile” last year, we have now released the updated version. The first edition introduced different agile methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban, and Feature-Driven Development and practices such as task boards, Kanban boards, and release planning. The second edition adds color graphics and additional field experiences. The book… Continue reading Finally here! Updated “Going Agile”
We are planning an update to our book [amazon text=Going Agile Project Management Practices&asin=098864830X] by including experiences from project managers and team members on using agile practices.
In March 2014, I had the pleasure to spend the day at CeBIT, the world’s largest and most international Information, communications, and technology conference. I viewed a few exhibition stands and attended a few conference presentations. I walked away with two impressions: (1) the digitization affect every aspect of our lives and (2) the number… Continue reading 2015 trends
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
TDWI recommends the implementation of a Business Intelligence (BI) and analytic Competency Center (CC) or Center of Excellence (CoE).