Lawrence CooperCreator, Lean-Agile Strategy| AdaptiveOrg Inc.Kanata, Ontario, Canada
I just went through the exercise of entering a project and found that the structure, questions, task/activities, etc. all assume a very traditionally defined, structured and executed project. For example, in an agile project you don't assign tasks. There are many more examples of where it does not fit an agile project....
Is there any plan to provide a more suitable template for capturing agile projects?
Likewise the outcomes and benefits side is weak. When you start from desired outcomes and work backwards towards intermediate and immediate ones you end up defining a program in the least and a portfolio of programs in the max (which is often the case) as you need to execute defined initiatives in particular order to get from where you are to the outcomes you desire.
This means you have multiple projects and products that get built (they aren't just software ones in most cases - a new business process is a "product" for example). This means that most "projects" are actually portfolio's and/or programs. This structure does not deal with this either as you would end up defining way too many projects to show what was done.
Most of my "project" experience is an example of the agile approach combined with outcomes mapping and benefits realization where it appropriately ends up being a program or a portfolio of programs so next to impossible to adequately capture in the provided project template.
I feel a bit like square-peg round-hole on this...
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Karthik RamamurthyAuthor, Say YES to Project Success| Founder KeyResultzChennai, Tamilnadu, Tamilnadu, India
Great point, Lawrence!
I would highly appreciate such a template too.
You can perhaps post this as a template suggestion in the appropriate section.
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Lawrence CooperCreator, Lean-Agile Strategy| AdaptiveOrg Inc.Kanata, Ontario, Canada
Maybe we can crowd source the template? :) That's how I'm doing The Agility Series books...rely on the collective intelligence of the community rather that on a single person. Saving Changes...
