Project schedule – after creation it is used regularly till end of the project. The main schedule I prefer to track in Microsoft Project. In my practice I’m trying to use the following principles while dealing with MS Project: Human resources load can not be more then 80%. On the…
Communication plan is a set of matrixes and procedures to regulate relations inside project team and with outside teams and individuals. Usually I do not publish communication plan as a separate document, it’s the part of Project Management plan. In my post I will go through main section of communication…
I would like to start detailed description for the Project Planning Phase with Functional and Technical designs. As I’m speaking about software development projects, this post will have some specific, and of course you cannot use the same templates for example building projects ))). Another important thing is that designs…
So, we’ve come to the most important phase for Project Manager – Planning Phase. Why is it so important? The main reason is that on this phase we lay the baseline for the whole project. And with poor foundation any “building” would crash. This building – is our project, and…
In this post I will finish the story started a week ago about Project Initiation phase. We have determined high level objectives and scope of the project, put down boundaries and constraints and check whether our activity is a project or just a work request. Now we have to prepare…
In the Project Management Request I’ve concentrated on the request pre-phase of the project and on its main document A3. If A3 has been approved by project sponsor it’s time to start project initiation phase. Initiation phase precedes Project Detailed phase and prepare Project manager and project team for real work….
From this post I would like to switch from TFS reporting to Project Management. The main reason is, that I have described all reports my team is using in everyday work. But of course, if we get some new ones – I will post about them for sure. So, what…
In this post I would like to continue speaking about how TFS helps me to path through project detailed planning phase. Initiate discussion can be found at Projects Detailed Planning Phase. Why TFS?. This time I will speak about Risk work item and how we use it in Project Management….
In this post I will continue to speak about project management and how TFS helps me handling it. I’ve started from Project Kick-off meeting, then we have created branches for project’s code and reserved iterations for development and testing. Now we are ready for Detailed Planning phase. Still we are…
From this post I would like to dwell on IT projects: how we manage projects, how TFS helps us handling them, what reports we are using. The first post will be dedicated to the Project Kick off meeting, as it is the first public project event. Kick off meeting –…