[hemmerling] Project Management

[hemmerling] Project Management

Organizations, Events

Project Management Organizations

Classical Project Management Organizations

PRINCE2 Deutschland e.V., Official PRINCE2 Website.
IPMA / GPM.
PMI.
- PMI European Chapters.
  - PMI German Chapters.
    - PMI Frankfurt Chapter e.V..
      - Local Groups in Hamburg, Hannover, Dresden.
        
        PMI Frankfurt Chapter e.V. "Community Links" - “Links to companies and people in the PM Community”.
        
        PMI Frankfurt Chapter e.V. "Community Links / Community Links" - links to project management resources.
        
        PMI Frankfurt Chapter e.V. "Companies" - links to project management software.
        
        PMI Köln Chapter e.V..
        
        Project Management Institute - Munich Chapter e.V. -.
Deutscher Verband der Projektmanager in der Bau- und Immobilienwirtschaft ( DVP ).
- DE.Wikipedia "Deutscher Verband der Projektmanager in der Bau- und Immobilienwirtschaft".

Agile ( Project Management ) Organizations

Events

Unconference Freiräume – Arbeiten auf Augenhöhe. freiraum.camp 2015 by hannoverimpuls GmbH ( 2015-05-29 - 2015-05-30 ).
- Alexander Krause, Agil-Inform offered a free great video workshop on the event .
- Patrick Koglin, Agile is limit, mehr geht nicht "Wahrnehmungsbericht vom Freiräume Camp 2015 in Hannover".
- Stephan Schwab "Vom Freiraum etwas zu unternehmen".
Barcamp AUGENHÖHEcamp, 2017 in Hamburg, Berlin.
Meeting Veraenderungskraft, Sylvius Gerber "1. Norddeutsches ScrumMaster-Gathering in Hannover", 2017-11-24.
Free online event “Free Scrum & Agile Training 2022”.
- Eventbrite "Free Scrum & Agile Training 2022" by Proventa AG - “Wie erledige ich mit meinem Team die doppelte Arbeit in der Hälfte der Zeit?” .
- XING Event "Free Scrum & Agile Training 2022: Zeitsparend und effizient".
- ”(Agilität & Agile Werte: 21.03.2022, um 15.30 Uhr bis 18.00 Uhr, Scrum Flow & Rollen: 23.03.2022, um 15.30 Uhr bis 18.00 Uhr und Meetings & Artefakte: am 28.03.2022, um 15.30 Uhr bis 18.00 Uhr)” - I was one of the 7 participants .
- Miro Board "Proventa AG - Scrum Training 2022" ( “https” only ).
- Proventa AG "Survey: Agile & Scrum Training".
- Documents:
  - ScrumGuides "Scrum Guide, Deutsch" ( PDF ).
  - Manifesto for Agile Software Development "Agile Manifest, Deutsch" ( no “www” ).
  - Manifesto for Agile Software Development "Prinzipien hinter dem Agilen Manifest, Deutsch" ( no “www” ).
  - The vice versa “anti” manifest Manifesto for Half-Arsed Agile Software Developmen for enterprises & large organisations .
- Free services:
  - Retromat - Inspiration & plans for (agile) retrospectives in German and English language.
Free online event Culture Amp "Culture First EMEA: A free virtual experience", 2023-03-22.

Library of Project Management Methods and Vocabulary

GPM Infocenter.
- GPM Infocenter "PM Methoden" #.
Informatik Forum Simon GmbH. "Infforum" - “Know-how-Transfer - Vorgehensmodelle/Methoden/Werkzeuge”.
PMH - Projektmanagementhandbuch.
- PMH - Projektmanagementhandbuch "Vorgangsliste".
- PMH - Projektmanagementhandbuch "VMI-Matrix" ↔ EN.Wikipedia "Responsibility assignment matrix", DE.Wikipedia "RACI".
Wikipedia.
“Kundenorientierte Projektplanung” ( KOP ).

Scrum, Agile Development Extreme Programming / Xtreme Programming

Local Optimization vs. Global Optimization

Agile methods → local optimization.
Traditional planning methods → global optimization.

Mandatory ( must-have ) Requirements for using Scrum in a Project

Maintainability

Oldfashioned Opinion: “The software must be highely maintainable”.... but the software code isn't maturing and can´t get corrupted ( in opposite to physical objects ), as it is the same code all the time.
- EN.Wikipedia "Maintainability", DE.Wikipedia "Wartbarkeit".

Evolvability

Modern Opinion: “The software must have a high evolvability”.
- DE.Wikipedia "Evolvierbarkeit (Software)".

Dynamic Systems Development Method ( DSDM )

Organisations

Literature

The DSDM Consortium Webshop → Literature list.

Resources

While SCRUM just plays on the team level, DSDM considers both team and project level .
Blog Abithon Consulting. Agile Business Continuity and Eclectic Project Management.
- Abithon Consulting "Scrum & DSDM Atern: AND, not XOR".
APMG-International - Accrediting Professionals "DSDM Atern".
Holisticon AG "ProjektProzessManagement / Atern".
- DSDM Atern expert XING "Malte-Nils Sörensen".
M.C. Partners & Associates. Crafting Suistainable Agility.
- M.C. Partners & Associates "DSDM Atern".
- M.C. Partners & Associates "DE" - “Obwohl unsere Homepage auf Englisch geschrieben ist, gibt es verschiedene Dokumente die auf Deutsch verfügbar sind”.
Methods & Tools Software Development Magazine. Software Development Magazine - Programming, Software Testing, Project Management, Jobs "Introduction to DSDM Atern".
Netzwoche "DSDM Atern. DSDM Atern im Überblick", 2011-10-24.
PROJECT in a box "Agile DSDM atern".
EN.Wikipedia "Dynamic systems development method".

SCRUM & Agile Development

Tools

Burn Down Chart

EN.Wikipedia "Burn down chart".

Tools for Information Reduction

Kanban board.
Burndown Chart.
Feedback screen.
Holiday calendar.
Design Wall.

Decision Poker

Kurswechsel - Agile Organisationsberatung Bremen. Ein Unternehmen der Heck GmbH.
- Kurswechsel Blog "Decision Poker – spielerisch reflektierte Entscheidungen treffen", 2020-05-14.

Delegation Poker

Planning Poker

Crisp "Planning Poker" - “Estimating without Planning Poker. Estimating with Planning Poker”. Comprehensive visual explanaition of “Planning Poker”, by practical example #.
- The online service Planning Poker - “Create a Game. Play free on desktop & mobile!”. “Basic FREE” account ( Up to 10 players per game, Choose from 4 pointing scales, Customizable game timer, Editable score averaging, Printable results page )”.
Mountain Goat Software "Planning Poker", Mountain Goat Software "Planning Poker Cards: Effective Agile Planning and Estimation".
EN.Wikipedia "Planning poker".
EN.Wikipedia "Cost estimation in software engineering", DE.Wikipedia "Aufwandsschätzung (Softwaretechnik)".

Velocity

Online Course "Agile Scrum Training & Scrum Certification Preparation Training"

The Course

Skillshare.
- SkillShare "Agile Scrum Training & Scrum Certification Preparation Training".

Resources

Scrum Recap: If you need a recap read the Scrum Guide here: Scrumguides.
- “Download the official Scrum Guide PDF in English”, “Download the official Scrum Guide in over 30 different languages”.
Do the open assessment of your choice at Scrum.org "Open Assessments". I recommend until you get 100% 3 times. This is just a guideline. You need to feel confident .
- Scrum.org "Open Assessments" - “Copying and pasting questions, answers, or feedback from this open assessment may result in your IP being blocked from the test host platform”. However: “You can use the Google Chrome browser to save any web page in PDF format including your Test results page”.
  1. Scrum Open.
  2. Developer Open.
  3. Product Owner Open.

Training & Training Experts

Learnical GbR, Julia Dellnitz & Lars Büsing
- Seminar “Agil arbeiten. In der IT und anderswo” ( “Working agile. In the IT and elsewhere” ), 2016-10-06 - 2016-10-07.
- XING "Julia Dellnitz".
- XING "Lars Büsing", LinkedIn "Lars Büsing".
- Twitter "Julia Dellnitz, @learnical".
- Facebook "JUG Saxony - Photos" -“Spiele-Abend mit dem learnical-Team und der JUG Saxony. Julia Dellnitz (learnical GbR)”, 2013.

Certification

mITSM Munich Institute for IT Service Management GmbH "Testen Sie Ihr SCRUM-Wissen mit den SCRUM Foundation Prüfungsfragen".

Literature

Book Kent Beck: "Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change".
Book Eckhart Hanser: "Agile Prozesse: Von XP über Scrum bis MAP"
- SpringerLink Eckhart Hanser: "Agile Prozesse: Von XP über Scrum bis MAP".
Book Timo Klimmer, Carsten Dogs: "Agile Software-Entwicklung kompakt".
Henrik Kniberg - PDF book “Scrum and XP from the Trenches”.
- Henrik Kniberg "Scrum and XP from the Trenches" ( PDF ), deprecated version.
- InfoQ "Scrum and XP from the Trenches" - Download of the current edition.
Book Andreas Opelt, Boris Gloger, Wolfgang Pfarl, Ralf Mittermayr "Der agile Festpreis: Leitfaden für wirklich erfolgreiche IT-Projekt-Verträge", 2nd.edition of 2014-07-03. The contents of the first edition ( i.e. the contracts presented in the book ) has some legal hazards, so please just use the 2nd. edition #.
Mario E. Moreira, Michael Lester, Steve Holzner:
- The free PDF book IBM "Mario E. Moreira, Michael Lester, Steve Holzner: Agile for Dummies".
- The free PDF book CA Technologies "Mario E. Moreiram, Michael Lester, Steve Holzner: Agile for Dummies" ( PDF ).
Pashun Consulting LTD. - Scrum Coaching and Leadership.
- The free E-book Paul VII "The Power of Scrum In the Real World. For the Agile Scrum Master, Product Owner, Stakeholder and Development Team" ( 25 pages ) - “A three part SCRUM EBOOK FREE”.
Book “Tony Raehalme: Scaling Excellence”.
- Scaling Excellence.
- Facebook "Scaling Excellence, Consulting/Business Services".
- Facebook "Scaling Excellence" - If you click “I like” and subscribe for the free newsletter, You will get a free PDF excerpt of the book ( 109 of 169 pages ).
Book Ken Schwaber, Mike Beedle "Agile Software Development with Scrum" #.
SCRUMstudy.
- SCRUMstudy "Free Resources".
  - Kindle Book SCRUMstudy "A Guide to the Scrum Body of Knowledge (SBOK Guide) - 2014 Edition: A Comprehensive Guide to Deliver Projects using Scrum"
  - SCRUMstudy "Download Free or Buy the SBOK Guide. A Guide to the SCRUM BODY OF KNOWLEDGE (SBOK™ GUIDE), 2013 Edition".
Book Jeff Sutherland "Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time" - The book that founded the false attitude concerning agility . Recommended reading just to learn about the false expectations .
Book Don Wells, Lauris Williams: "Extreme Programming and Agile Methods - XP/Agile Universe 2002" - Article “Supporting Distributed Extreme Programming” by Frank Maurer.

Literature suggested on my Agile-Working Workshop 2016-10

Agile Multi-Team Frameworks, with the Goal of Scaling Agility

“Agility Path”.
- Effective Agile "Agility Path".
- SlideShare "Agility Path".
Disciplined Agile (DA) Framework ( DAD ).
“Enterprise Transition Framework” ( ETF )”.
- SlideShare "The Enterprise Transition Framework ETF".
- Agile42 "Introducing the agile42 Enterprise Transition Framework".
EN.Wikipedia "Kanban (development)", EN.Wikipedia "Kanban (Softwareentwicklung)".
LeSS# - “Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS) is a framework for scaling agile development to multiple teams”. # Lightweight, for little number of teams.
- Either “LeSS”:
  - 1 single product owner. 1 single scrum muster may guide up to 3 teams, 1 or 2 scrum masters are enough for the little number of teams.
- Or “LeSS Huge”:
  - 1 single product owner. Each area has it's own area product owners, team(s), scrum master(s).
- Experts recommended this framework for “Feature Teams” and “Key Integration Teams”.
Scrum.org "The Nexus Guide" - “This Guide Describes Nexus, the Exoskeleton of Scaled Scrum”. # Heavyweight, for large number of teams of an organisation.
ScALeD Principles.
SAFe# - “Scaled Agile Framework – SAFe for Lean Enterprises”. # Heavyweight, for large number of teams of an organisation.
Scrum@Scale.
- Scrum Inc "Scrum at Scale Part 1".
“Scrum of Scrums”.
- Agile Alliance "Scrum of Scrums".

Approaches for Introduction of Agility

OpenSpace Agility – “Because real enterprise Agility requires real human engagement”.
Using an extra “Transition Team” with the backlog of all problems of the angile turnover.

Post-Agile

Honeypot Blog.
- Honeypot Blog "What is Agile? And are we Agile yet?" - “A Honypot Infographics: Are we moving towards a post-Agile age?”.

Resources

Special Project Management Topics

Inception Phase

Issue based Development

Microsoft Student Conference 2007, Vorträge.
- Presentation Christian Bertmann, Accenture: Vorgehensmodelle in der Softwareentwicklung" ( PDF ).
Bernd Brügge.
- Bernd Brügge "Software Life Cycles".

"IT Kanban" - Kanban in the IT

Kanban Services

Online collaboration services, suitable to organize Kanban processes for the IT ( like “Trello” ), see see Team Software, Collaboration Software, Groupware & Application Lifecycle Management.

Featureban - The Simulation Game

Mike Burrows

LinkedIn "Mike Burrows", Agendashift.
Blog Positive Incline. Mike Burrows (@asplake) moving on up, positively - Tag Archives "featureban" ( - 2015-10-09 ).
Blog Agendashift Blog ( 2015-10-09 - ).
- Agendashift Blog "Featureban’s new home".
SlideShare "Mike Burrows".
- SlideShare "Featureban. A simple kanban simulation game", DropBox "featureban-slides.pdf".
Agendashift "Featureban facilitation information and downloads".
TastyCupcakes.org. Fuel for Invention and Learning "New Kanban simulation game 'Featureban'", 2014 - “Featureban is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License”.
HiveMindNetwork.com. TheHive Collaboration Central "Featureban – notes for facilitators".
LinkedIn "Agendashift".
Book Mike Burrows "Kanban from the Inside: Understand the Kanban Method, connect it to what you already know, introduce it with impact".

Some other Featureban experts

XING "Thomas Schürmann", LinkedIn "Thomas Schürmann", DocPlayer "Thomas Schürmann".

Resources

Charts of “Featurban”:
1. Cumulative Flow Diagram ( CFD ).
  - Atlassian Documentation for JIRA "Viewing the Cumulative Flow Diagram".
  - KanbanTool "Explaining Cumulative Flow Diagrams".
  - SlideShare "Explaining Cumulative Flow Diagrams - CFD" - “Understanding Project Performance using Cumulative Flow Diagrams”.
  - EN.Wikipedia "Cumulative flow diagram".
2. Lead Time Chart.
  - Mecklenburg County, NC "Lead Time Chart".
  - System2Win "Video: Lead Time".
  - System2Win "Lean Glossary of Terms. Lean Dictionary for Process Improvement" - “Lead Time = the time it takes for one unit of the thing being transformed to go through every step of the process (or every process of the entire value stream) from start to finish — including time waiting between steps”.
Twitter - Tweets Search "featureban".

Resources

David J. Anderson & Associates, Inc..
- David J. Anderson & Associates, Inc. "Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business".
- Book David J. Anderson "Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business".
Conferences “Lean Kanban Central Europe” ( LKCE ).
- Lean Kanban Central Europe - Munich 2011.
- Lean Kanban Central Europe 2012, Hamburg.
- Lean Kanban Central Europe 2013, Hamburg.
- Lean Kanban Central Europe 2014, Hamburg.
it-agile GmbH.
- it-agile GmbH - Shop.
  - Paper and PDF magazine agile review - Das Kundenmagazin von it-agile.
  - PDF books “Justin's Path to Portfolio Kanban”, “Justin - Kanban Comic”, “Qualitäter Comic”,”Agile Skalierung. Auf dem Weg zur Lernenden Organisation” ( LUNA ).
EN.Wikipedia "Kanban (development)", DE.Wikipedia "Kanban in der IT".
Order release ( “Auftragsfreigabe” ):
XING - Reference customer which uses “Kanban in the IT”.

From User Story Mapping to Roadmap, according to it-agile GmbH of 2018-08

Diagram

~~T-Shirt~~ Size

Goal

Metric

Date

Feature

Goal / Acitvity

User Step / Task

User Story / Subtask A

ST-A1

ST-A2

ST-A3

ST-A4

ST-A5

ST-A6

ST-A7

Effect1

M-1a

2018-01-01

User Story / Subtask B

ST-B1

ST-B2

ST-B3

ST-B4

ST-B5

ST-B6

ST-B7

M-1b

2018-01-01

User Story / Subtask C

ST-C1

ST-C2

ST-C3

ST-C4

ST-C5

ST-C6

ST-C7

M-1c

2018-01-01

User Story / Subtask D

ST-D1

ST-D2

ST-D3

ST-D4

ST-D5

ST-D6

ST-D7

Effect2

M-2a

2018-01-01

User Story / Subtask E

ST-E1

ST-E2

ST-E3

ST-E4

ST-E5

ST-E6

ST-E7

M-2b

2018-01-01

User Story / Subtask F

ST-F1

ST-F2

ST-F3

ST-F4

ST-F5

ST-F6

ST-F7

2018-01-01

User Story / Subtask G

ST-G1

ST-G2

ST-G3

ST-G4

ST-G5

ST-G6

ST-G7

Effect3

M-3a

2018-01-01

Metric = Indicators by which we realize that something successfull happened.
Indeed, features FA, FB, FD, FG don´t appear in the user story ( Activity, Task, Subtask ), i.e. neither the same words, nor by description
Function points may be used to monitor the roadmap.
Principle “Outcome ( effects! ) instead of Output ( features! ).

Resources

Time Estimation & Time Tracking as Base for successful Project Management

General

Time Estimation & Time Tracking as Base for successful Project Management - in most project, you get time paid, your time as project manager and that of your team .

Lean Forecasting

Troy Magennis - Focused Objective - “forecasting - risk - staff - cost of delay”.
Book Troy Magennis "Forecasting and Simulating Software Development Projects: Effective Modeling of Kanban & Scrum Projects using Monte-carlo Simulation", 2011.
Lean Pub.
- Lean Pub "Troy Magennis".
- Lean Pub, Troy Magennis "Lean Forecasting", 2012 - “Rapid Forecasting Likely Staff, Cost and Delivery Dates of Agile Software Projects”.
Using MonteCarlo random simulations to find out the likelihood of an event ( e.g. that the project is terminated successfully ).

Websites with Webcasts about Project Management

ESI International.

Rules of Thumb for Shipping Great Software on Time

David Gristwood "21 Rules of Thumb – How Microsoft develops its Software - “Jim McCarthy, Microsoft Corporation: 21 Rules of Thumb for Shipping Great Software on Time”.

Special Projects

Studentisches Ingenieurbüro der Fachhochschule Hannover.

Examples

Example of failed Projects

FlugzeugLorenz: Junkers Ju 288 - “Der Technologieträger Ju 288 soll der Junkers AG endgültig die Vorherrschaft im “großdeutschen” Flugzeugbau sichern”.