I was interested in the PMI ACP certification. In reading up on the application process I need to have 1500 hours of only agile project team or agile methodology experience. In the role that I am in at my company our team does not use Agile. So I was wondering if you might have any suggestions on how I could obtain the 1500 hours of only agile project team or agile methodology experience? Saving Changes...
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Pamela PenningtonIT Director| Ride ConnectionPhoenix, Az, United States
Our organization is just starting Agile. I took a few classes and then started 'wading in' taking current project work items that I had previously been keeping in Excel and creating a Kanban board with them, adopting a pseudo Agile approach. Then I presented the Kanban board to my team so they could see how having a visual of the workload was helpful. Now we have the Agile template in TFS and are slowly working into putting all our work items in there and dividing the work into sprints. Saving Changes...
John Caron, MBA, PMP, CSMVP - Technology Project Solutions Consultant| Bank of AmericaJacksonville, Fl, United States
Pamela, I genuinely enjoy how you introduced Agile at work. Are your teams virtual? Have you employed tools for these people? Wishing you well as you move forward with this approach. Saving Changes...
Pamela PenningtonIT Director| Ride ConnectionPhoenix, Az, United States
Most of my staff telecommute a few days a week. By moving the Kanban activity to Team Foundation Server Agile template, we plan to conduct the daily scrum meetings virtually with Webex. At some point the overall project plans will be in Microsoft Project and tie into TFS.
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1 reply by Lee Cash
Aug 25, 2016 1:17 PM
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I'm impressed / cross linkage between TFS and MS Project. Also, any experience using SharePoint to build light weight rapid prototyping models?
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Sergio Luis ConteHelping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based OrganizationsBuenos Aires, Argentina
You have to read carefully all information related to certification. If you use a method to do something inside a project that is covered by the certifications domain you can contabilize that. For example, what do you use to define project requirements?. Do you use some method to prioritize it?. Take a close look and understand the related information. Saving Changes...
Sergio Luis ConteHelping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based OrganizationsBuenos Aires, Argentina
Pamela and John, sorry to intervene. I am leading my seventh initiative to use agile as enterprise wide. First of all, you need to understand that agile is not a method or methdology, agile is not IT or software related only. But beside that, if you want to introduce a new wave to do things that has to be part of an strategical decission and enteprise analisys has to be dome first. We use the Tom Peter´s Seven S model to do that. The use of a new wave to do things has to be part of a solution needed at enterprise wide level. If not, please let me say it will fail. Saving Changes...
John Caron, MBA, PMP, CSMVP - Technology Project Solutions Consultant| Bank of AmericaJacksonville, Fl, United States
Sergio. You are not intervening, you are simply weighing and with what's work for yourself and we appreciate that. I myself wish her well and hope this works as trial and success come with errors where we learn. Saving Changes...
Pamela PenningtonIT Director| Ride ConnectionPhoenix, Az, United States
Hey Sergio, I agree with you, totally. My supervisors are telling our dev team who is in Department of Technology Services to start going Agile, but not with the rest of the divisions for Dept of Economic Security involved. Several of us have said that we need to have all customers on board too. If we try to force Agile down our customers' throats it will further drive a wedge in an already adversarial relationship. People have already tried and failed in our organization 3 times from what I've heard. It's quite possible this iteration will fail. But at least I will get some experience out of it... State government is just sooo big... I had no idea before I got this job!
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1 reply by Lee Cash
Aug 25, 2016 1:22 PM
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34 years with State of Ga. Retired 10 years and have contracted many of these public sector (CDC) and regulated industries -- utilities Ga. Power and Bell South/AT&T -- I have seen how government functions (local, state, national, and heavily regulated industries) all add up to about 30% of the total USA economy. Few people really realize how truly interconnected all components of our economy are, yet we all benefit, frequently in ways we rarely recognize.
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Sergio Luis ConteHelping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based OrganizationsBuenos Aires, Argentina
This type of things are on the business analysis field. Time ago I have wrote an article that was considered as "best practice" for the IIBA and the PMI. The link is below and perhaps it will help to others. The importan thing Pamela is: initiatives to use agile (or any other type of things) fail when the organization do not take into account that each initiative will create an impact inside the whole organization, so integration is the key. In fact, an organization will not be agile if is not integrated. An that is one of the key challenges to use agile because as you know most of the organizations architecture are functional oriented or "silos" oriented.
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