Agile Case Study (1/5): Project kick-off
The following case study is originally published as the chapter 23 of the Mike Cohn’s book entitled Agile Estimating and Planning. In this chapter, the author, in order to summarize and put into practice many key points explained in the book, develops a case on…
Citizen Development in The Project Economy
A citizen developer is a user without coding knowledge who creates new business applications for consumption by others using LCNC Development Platforms sanctioned by corporate IT. By 2024, more than 65% of software projects in the project economy will include at least one citizen developer. This doesn’t mean software teams will ignore IT, rather the opposite.
Closing Projects with PMPeople
While closing a project or phase, PMPeople can help effective communication with stakeholders, specially nervours since they know they won’t have the right to request more changes and they need to make sure all their requirements are met. You can control this communication, any time, anywhere, with PMPeople.
PM² Artefacts with PMPeople
The PM² Guide describes 33 document templates covering most cases in all kind of projects, not just UE’s ones. Many projects need to follow a strict methodology based on documented evidence. Even for those cases, PMPeople enables people to collaborate first, and document the project later, saving time and fostering project teams productivity.
The Dark Side of Agile Projects
Agile frameworks do not mention the role of the project manager because they were designed for product management, not project management. However, the PM role is required when the organization approves a project that must be completed within a certain period of time and below a certain budget. Professional PMs are responsible, among other things, for the agile project to end on time and on budget, meeting stakeholders’ requirements.
PMPeople to implement PM²
European Union’s Project Management Methodology (PM2) is based on requestor and provider roles. PMPeople can be the tool to implement this methodology on projects funded by the EU, as well as projects in any organization.
PMPeople: The tool for the Agile PMO
Professional project management applies also to agile projects. For these kind of projects, the corporate PMO should embrace agile principles and minset to respond to change, enhance value-driven delivery, stakeholder engagement, continous improvement, scale agile from projects to products, services, programs, portfolios, etc.
PMPeople puts PMBOK® into practice
PMPeople makes you practice the PMBOK on your current project, in your organization, keeping business as usual, collaborating with other people, be them PMP certified or not