Hi,
I was assigned to a new ecommerce platform project as project lead working with the project manager, and I was given the task of keeping track of everything to stay on top of things. The project follows the agile methodology. I would love to know what is the best way to keep track of the project and status report in an agile project.
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Sergio Luis ConteHelping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based OrganizationsBuenos Aires, Argentina
Stakeholders needs must be taking into account. For example, we use Scrum with MS Project. While I could agree that it has no sense the point is I have not possibility to convince to corporate audit people about that. So, we use it. On the other side, you have lot of examples inside different web sites like Agile Alliance, Scrum Alliance, etc. Saving Changes...
Laurent BarretProject and development Manager| CotecnaGeneva, Switzerland
Tricky question because there is no Project Manager with Agile. If you use SCRUM, for short term status report you can use the burdown chart to show that you are on track with the schedule. You can do the same at Project level, using the Release Planning. The difficulty with Agile will be to plan releases in advance and until the end of the project. For instance, if your velocity so far is 20 points per sprint, and you estimate that 100 points are remaining to achive the project, then you can estimate the end of the project and final costs. Saving Changes...
I find that the product roadmap and the release plan can be helpful in communicating project status.
Are you using a scrum board (story points), a Kanban board (WIP), or something else to track the work? If you are using a Scrum-based flavor of agile, you can use the sprint burndown chart for sprint status. I've seen people use a product burndown chart, but that gets confusing to people unless the backlog is complete and static. A burnup chart might make more sense.
On the Kanban side, I'm working with my mobile development team to figure out the most meaningful way to report progress. I'm more concerned with the big picture, which I can get from the product roadmap and release plan. The consulting company (developers) I am working with wants to put more emphasis on the amount of work they are doing. I'm looking into cycle time reporting to see if that will help them get what they need. Saving Changes...
Drew CraigSr. Agile & Product Coach| VanguardPhiladelphia, Pa, United States
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