Recently there was a tremendous opportunity to learn from one of today’s premier project-control advocates and thought leaders on a topic most project professionals may very well be occupied with on a daily basis.
As-Built schedules are very important project records as they can be used in Delay Claims disputes, generating Norms or Production Rates and benchmarking future project activities hence why a lot of emphasis is placed on activities having accurate actual dates and actual duration. But Primavera P6 users need to pay attention to their User Preferences, else they will be recording wrong actual duration for activities.
Adopting a product mindset is critical when transforming to an Agile development methodology, like Scrum. Shifting our thinking from project to product expands our view beyond the confines of the triple constraint—scope, cost, and time. The product mindset forces us to consider the larger, strategic roadmap and the value we want create.
Product vs. Project
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When teaching classes on Agile and DevOps, I am always presented with the comment, "We've been Agile for years, but..." The student then continues to describe an organization rife with Agile ant-patterns.
Agile and DevOps are primarily cultural transformations. To "be Agile," we need to unlearn many of our existing management and software development beliefs. We need to shift from a process-based to values-based mindset and belief system.
This is my fifth book-signing event (Venue = Signal Hills, Calgary, AB).
I had the pleasure of meeting with John Castaneda, a Planning and Scheduling colleague, and Kate Knowles, a new friend. Thanks for your support. My daughter Maria Zenka and Stephen Thornhill came to visit. It was a nice surprise.
MS Project do not provide a tool to highlight a time period in Gantt chart.
So how can we do it?
First you create a new calendar. For example "Gantt Shade"
I have just completed my second book-signing event at Chapters-Chinook, Calgary, AB.
Unique to the day's experience was a lively discussion with a group of young students. They were highly inquisitive and showed genuine interest on the subject of risk and risk-based management.
Agile software projects have significantly better outcomes than Waterfall methodologies. Statistics from the 2015 Standish Group’s Chaos Report show that, on average, Agile projects are three times more likely to be successful than Waterfall projects. This gap is even more pronounced for medium and large-sized projects. (See: What We Really Know About Successful Projects).
