Requirement Gathering Estimation
How do you go about estimating your time on a project for gathering requirements for a specific project? This gets a bit tricky. How much detail of the project is already know, how complex is the project, what is the technology used, what current system would have impacts on this project, how much time and effort is the business spending on providing you the requirements? To be able to estimate this, the first and most difficult task that needs to be committed is to know the number and availability of the key stakeholders. Once you have this Block two hours essentially with
Requirements for a Mammoth App
The only way to do that is to cut the Mammoth into small slices. Slices should be like the regular cheese slices that we use on our sandwiches, these slices should be small enough because the sole purpose of cutting this Mammoth is to make it possible for humans (business users) to eat it. Besides there is no overhead in choosing the piece that looks yummy, putting it in your mouth, chewing it and swallowing it. So when you go for your next project make it a point to slice and dice the Mammoth and share the pieces around so that at
Agile Business Analysts / Project Manager
A few months back when I was working on a project a thought cross my mind about, would a company require an Agile Business Analyst / Project Manager or a Person who had a combination skill of Both? A few years back, I would have said "No, you don't". Today for the web the whole development cycle has changed. You need to move fast and have flexibility. The objective of an Agile project is to provide maximum value to the client as soon as possible. It would be a dream come true if business users, developers, testers, management all agreed with
What’s missing with Productivity?
Most problems with productivity today is because there are a few key issues (at least in my experience). These are:- If your organization portrays to be flexible, but the people complain day in and out about Change Request, how cumbersome the applications they work on are then don't put in an inflexible IT system and/or IT process. As having a non flexible IT process or system does not make you flexible.
- Process is good. Process is necessary. Create a process that allows for flexibility, speed and change. I have seen companies hire N number of Managers, be it a Programme manager, Test
Does the methodology Matter?
A year back I was involved in visiting a few vendors for web application development in New Zealand and India. It was weird when vendors spoke about their development methodology and why one is better than the other. I asked myself and a few of my guru friends the same question whether it mattered if it was Agile or Waterfall methodology? The simple answer is NO it does not. But with every opinion there are numerous BUT’s, Read on to make your own decision. Continue Reading
The Road to being Agile PM – 2 of 2
Lyssa Adkins has been coaching Agile teams and enjoys delivering software and process projects using Agile methods. In this video she tries to provide an overview of how Project Manager can make a team more productive. This is a Recording of a workshop given at the Scrum Gathering. Enjoy!!!
The Road to being Agile PM 1 – 2
Lyssa Adkins has been coaching Agile teams and enjoys delivering software and process projects using Agile methods. In this video she tries to provide an overview of how Project Manager can make a team more productive. This is a Recording of a workshop given at the Scrum Gathering. Enjoy!!!
A few pointers for Project Managers
I can speak from what i have observed and these are a few observations that i have made over the course of my career. In this post i try to highlight the key points for every successful project manager. These are basic common sense statements but rarely practiced by project managers. The points listed below are just my personal views and may not necessarily work for all but hey there is no harm to try and judge for yourself if they work or not. Continue Reading
Building Trust on Virtual Teams – Part 2
In my last Post you would have read about a few tips of how to manage a Virtual team. To make sure that communication and trust are present it is necessary that all team members are on the same page about what happening in the organization as well on their dedicated projects. Put Web2.0 to Work, make the most of rapid simple web applications to keep your team in the loop. You could use Instant Messaging for communication, research the newest tools for efficiency and collaboration. There are thousands of Web application where you can trial and use this with demo-
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