Uttam ShettyManagement Consultant - Marketing| ICF ConsultingBangalore, Karnataka, India
How effective will it be to use a MPP to manage schedule while driving an agile program? Since we are working towards driving the project by tracking story points does it make sense to use a MPP. Saving Changes...
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Drew CraigSr. Agile & Product Coach| VanguardPhiladelphia, Pa, United States
Unless you have a project where 100% of the scope is reflected in the backlog, there are likely to be certain activities (e.g. governance, reporting) which you'd want to track in a traditional schedule.
In such cases, you can also reflect the work of the pods using one task per sprint with no further breakdown of activities below that level of granularity.
This will help you get a complete view of project activities, dependencies, and cost.
Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten AssociatesNew Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
I totally agree with Kiron’s point of view. Saving Changes...
Sergio Luis ConteHelping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based OrganizationsBuenos Aires, Argentina
Create an schedule when you use an Agile based method has no sense (except you are using DSDM) but I have to do that because up to date I can not convince the Audit people about that. So, I am using MS Project with Scrum framework (remember, is a framework that you have to complete with tools and techniques). What I am doing is let people that are working with Scrum free and ask them some data (very few data) to complete my MS Project schedule. One of the key is you have features instead of activities. Take into account on that. When I was part of the group of authors of PMI´s PMBOK I gave them an example which was used to create picture 6-20. Saving Changes...
Deepesh RammoorthyICT Project Manager ( PMP®AgilePM®Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®))| Australian Red Cross Blood ServiceTarneit, Vic, Australia
Hi all . I personally don't consider it as a big overhead to create a schedule even when using Agile framework. It's all about putting in the blocks of time for your iterations, time-boxes and sprints and let the Development team handle the day-to-day-details of the sprints on the KANBAN board.
As a project manager, you have a job to let the management know (even in a one page report) what the key dates on your project are.
It's a half an hour job to setup this at the most , on your project, and all you have to keep managing on an ongoing basis is if your sprint timelines slip or the project end date slips.
Apart from this , as Sergio mentioned , if you are running a DSDM project , you still have a lot of other Project Management Responsibilities. Saving Changes...
RAJESH K LProject Manager, PMP| Bharat Electronics, Bengaluru, IndiaBengaluru, Karnataka, India
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