Paolo CornaliProject Manager| HTA srlBrescia, Lombardia, Italy
Do you use visual management techniques for your project plan?
If yes, what and how do you show? I'm particular interested in visual management in multi-project environment. Saving Changes...
Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten AssociatesNew Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Can you be more specific Paolo as I am not sure I understand the question properly. Thanks !
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1 reply by Paolo Cornali
Mar 02, 2016 12:13 AM
Paolo Cornali
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I intend techniques like that shown in the following website:
http://www.xqa.com.ar/visualmanagement/2009/06/kanban-boards/ but used to managing tasks of multiple projects.
Someone use these techniques to managing and share tasks with development team?
Which is your point-of-view?
I hope to have clarified, Rami.
When thinking about e.g. the high-level program view, then yes, I usually use a multiple timeline visual showing the program parts and the high-level interdependencies only. If the programs structure allows it, linked parts could be colored the same. I don't specify project details in the program view which is why I don't need to add a list or the like, the timeline view presents it well. In other contexts, I've additionally set up a kind of map showing the areas that are influenced and/or influencing the program. These can be topics, subject areas, departments or something else - it just allows to visualize the context and correlations.
I work with Mindmap, Visio, and Project, but there are many more that help. If data is already available and Power BI is set up I'd go for it as there are many option for visualizing data. Of course, only if it suits the purpose.
Hope that was the direction you thought of. Bests!
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1 reply by Paolo Cornali
Mar 02, 2016 12:21 AM
Paolo Cornali
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Hi Christina,
thank you for your feedback.
Anyway I did not mean the high level program, but detailed tasks of different projects in order to manage and share it with the team.
Moreover I did not mean using Mindmap, Visio or similar app, but sticky notes as shown in the website I linked in my previous post. Do you use techniques like that?
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Paolo CornaliProject Manager| HTA srlBrescia, Lombardia, Italy
Mar 01, 2016 3:09 AM
Replying to Rami Kaibni
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Can you be more specific Paolo as I am not sure I understand the question properly. Thanks !
I intend techniques like that shown in the following website:
http://www.xqa.com.ar/visualmanagement/2009/06/kanban-boards/ but used to managing tasks of multiple projects.
Someone use these techniques to managing and share tasks with development team?
Which is your point-of-view?
I hope to have clarified, Rami. Saving Changes...
Paolo CornaliProject Manager| HTA srlBrescia, Lombardia, Italy
Mar 01, 2016 4:50 AM
Replying to Christina de Vries
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Hi Paolo
When thinking about e.g. the high-level program view, then yes, I usually use a multiple timeline visual showing the program parts and the high-level interdependencies only. If the programs structure allows it, linked parts could be colored the same. I don't specify project details in the program view which is why I don't need to add a list or the like, the timeline view presents it well. In other contexts, I've additionally set up a kind of map showing the areas that are influenced and/or influencing the program. These can be topics, subject areas, departments or something else - it just allows to visualize the context and correlations.
I work with Mindmap, Visio, and Project, but there are many more that help. If data is already available and Power BI is set up I'd go for it as there are many option for visualizing data. Of course, only if it suits the purpose.
Hope that was the direction you thought of. Bests!
Hi Christina,
thank you for your feedback.
Anyway I did not mean the high level program, but detailed tasks of different projects in order to manage and share it with the team.
Moreover I did not mean using Mindmap, Visio or similar app, but sticky notes as shown in the website I linked in my previous post. Do you use techniques like that? Saving Changes...
Sure, Kanban can help you in a program, too. It's easy with virtual boards that provide one board per project and several views across them.
With a physical board it's tricky to avoid cluttering. Swimlanes may help, but that might only work for small programs imho.
Bests! Saving Changes...
Jan FoersterProject Manager| Airbus Operations GmbHHamburg, Germany
Hi Paolo,
I am not sure if this is answering partially your question:
I know SCDQP (Virtual via iSharePoint) Visual Boards (abbreviations for Safety, Costs, Deliveries / Deliverables, Quality, People) as categories covered by Sub-project Leaders from Engineering, Testing, Industrial, Quality, After Sales, Procurement, Contracts, and PMOs for a given set of product components.
Any deviations / defects / changes as well as Risks & Opportunities in above mentioned categories are addressed, including Mitigation Actions, Action Owner and Due Date(s).
In parallel, Escalation Ladders are established.
In my view, Action Plans / Scheduling / Project Tasks can be fully autonomously managed at sub-level and typically do not need to be discussed as those are anyway visible & interlinked in corporate planning tool, e.g. MS Project, Planisware, PrimaVera etc.
Visual Management is a fancy term used now-a-days. Basically it is with us time immemorial.
People are using in all walks of life - Traffic police gesture / signal, road side traffic symbols (zebra lines, etc.), sports (color of vests - players, linesman, referee, - show different cards - red, yellow, etc.), courier / postal service (up / down arrow or fragile symbol, etc), Health Care (oxygen cylinder black, etc.), Health, Safety & Environment (rampant use - symbols, color coding, direction to escape, etc.), IT industries, Administration, Presentation (use of different colors to differentiate or make a vivid impact, use of clip art, smiley, etc.), Art (any type), Manufacturing industries (color coding of pipe lines, P&ID marking, storage tank colors, etc.), Scheduling (color coding of different activities, priorities, etc), now we can brainstorm rest of the fields where we can use. It is very simple.
It is part and parcel of our daily and professional life such a way we do not take any interest to know the word coined for the same in later stage. It is nothing but old wine in new bottle. Interesting part is new bottle gives a small distinction in our mind and distinction breaks the plateau stage of our mind and motivate to embrace the system in better way.
Auditory is also another method to manage lot of things (whistle, siren, beep sound, alarm with different intensity), but visual strikes our brain at light speed with out any confusion. It is automated guiding technique of our behavior / action once implemented and taught. It can be implemented irrespective of literacy level of people. It supports lean and green technology. It maps the perfect territory to all equally. Thanks ! Saving Changes...
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