Software Project Management Videos and Tutorials

Healthy Projects

tvpm — Tue, 15 May 2012 12:41:46 +0000

A healthy project requires clarity of project (what are we building), the customer (for whom are we building), the purpose (why are we building it), and of release schedules (when are we building it). But it doesn’t stop there, a healthy project requires a collaborative contract and structure, an understanding of what quality means, constant communication between the team and all other stakeholders, and an appreciation of the project’s trajectory. Agile and lean give us a highly configurable (and re-configurable) toolkit with which to build healthy projects. Jim Benson discusses healthy ...

Agile Practices in a Traditional Organization

tvpm — Tue, 08 May 2012 20:26:04 +0000

How do we use adaptive planning techniques while still providing accurate progress status to our traditional PMO counterparts? Is it possible to make decisions at the last responsible moment and still satisfy our organization’s long lead time for planning and resources? Can we tie our project’s large, coarse-grained project goals to an individual story in an iteration? This video explores these important questions, and several of the standard Agile practices and how they can be used when operating alongside more traditional teams. Video source: http://www.scrum.org/webcast/

Project Stakeholder Analysis

tvpm — Fri, 04 May 2012 13:13:38 +0000

This video explains the importance and usage of a Stakeholder Analysis in project management. It proposes some template for stakeholders registration and strategy management.

Applied Kanban at RadicalFusion

tvpm — Tue, 01 May 2012 14:17:05 +0000

This video discusses how Kanban and Lean methodologies were applied at RadicalFusion. Meeting Organiser: San Francisco Agile User Group

Predictability and Measurement with Kanban

tvpm — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:11:07 +0000

This video explains how to use predictability, measurement and change management with Kanban to balance the factors of observed capability, staffing, and delivery targets to achieve predictable outcomes. Watch this video on http://www.lean-kanban-conference.de/videos/predictability-and-measurement-with-kanban/

Coping with Resistance Making Agile Work

tvpm — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 18:55:06 +0000

This video presents some practical ways to cope with the often irrational resistance that change can cause. Video Producer: http://www.agilevancouver.ca/

Deception and Estimation: How We Fool Ourselves

tvpm — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 12:04:29 +0000

Cognitive scientists tell us that we are hardwired for deception; to be overly optimistic about outcomes. In fact, we surely wouldn’t have survived without this trait. With this built-in bias as a starting point, it’s no wonder that software managers and agile teams almost always develop poor estimates. But that doesn’t mean all is lost. We must simply accept that our estimates are optimistic guesses and continually re-evaluate as we go. There are many development projects where sincere, honest people wanted to make the best estimates possible and used “scientific” approaches ...

Truth about Project Failures

tvpm — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:19:35 +0000

This video shares some tools and techniques on how to eliminate some communication killers in project management.

Creating Velocity Without Debt in Scrum

tvpm — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:10:02 +0000

This tutorials discusses the “definition of done”, a way of focusing on business value while avoiding technical debt.It explains to Agile Scrum Masters and Project Managers how release decisions and tradeoffs are made, and how to avoid technical debt.

A Lean Approach to Portfolio Management

tvpm — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 21:41:55 +0000

In many companies using agile practices, project portfolio management are still plan-driven: the focus is on elaborating a plan and taking actions when deviations are reported. A better alternative is to bring the focus on value, flow and waste, instead. In this session we explore some of the lean product development techniques that have been introduced to manage a portfolio. We discuss the different shifts implied : - from projects to products - from push to pull - from ready-to-implement solutions to well-defined problems We will also tell about how we tried to find a ...

Definition of Done

tvpm — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:49:52 +0000

In Agile, the Definition of Done is a checklist of activities and artefacts that are verifiable or demonstrable and required for the completion of the work. A team may have multiple Definitions of Done that apply at different levels, such as; Release, Feature, Iteration, Story. These definitions should be hierarchical so the story definition is part of the “Iteration” definition. Video Producer: http://www.agileacademy.com.au/

Why Geeks Aren’t Buying Agile

tvpm — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:37:15 +0000

If Agile works, why isn’t everyone doing it? This presentation makes the argument that it comes down to trust and presents tools and examples of how to build trust among the various stakeholders involved. Video Producer: Agile Vancouver

Making Distributed Teams Work

tvpm — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 15:41:59 +0000

Learn how to make the best out of your distributed teams. Developing software even with a collocated team is a complex endeavor. When the teams are distributed, especially over the geographical boundaries, it adds much more complexities to the whole production process. This video discusses the challenges in such context and ways to make the distributed team development more effective to all the parties involved. Watch this video on http://oredev.org/2011/sessions/making-distributed-teams-work

The Psychology of Kanban

tvpm — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 08:16:20 +0000

Why does Kanban work so well? Why do teams intuitively take to it? Why do people’s behaviors change around a visual control? Why does stress decrease? Why do people who currently could not work together suddenly collaborate? This presentation discusses the psychology behind visual controls. Video Producer: http://www.leankanban2011.be/

Herding Cats

tvpm — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 14:57:27 +0000

Paul shares his experience gained from managing development projects with Ruby. Video Producer: http://magrails.com/

Agile Metrics for Collaboration

tvpm — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 13:05:15 +0000

Large organizations are using balanced scorecards and dashboards to measure, monitor and forecast the performance of the organization and connect those to its vision, goals and objectives. Metrics is important for management, but how do you design metrics for agile teams? How will the metrics affect the behavior of the teams? This video provides an insight into different types of agile metrics that preserves and promotes collaboration of agile development teams. Watch this video on oredev.org

Iterationless Kanban and Continuous Deployment

tvpm — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 21:34:00 +0000

This video explains how a company applied the methods of Kanban to a product delivery process for everything from product management and feature development to governance and continuous deployment.

Kanban For Agile Portfolio Management

tvpm — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:03:57 +0000

This presentation focuses on how Kanban can be applied in the areas of portfolio and programme management. Kevin Ryan shares his experiences and demonstrates how the principles of a Kanban system can be applied beyond the team level and can be adapted to support agile delivery at scale. Throughout the presentation Kevin describes how to establish a portfolio that contains programmes of work to provide an alternative leadership framework to that of project management. He then demonstrates how these programmes of work can be structured to deliver prioritised initiatives using actionable ...

Project Reporting with Microsoft Project

tvpm — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:41:37 +0000

This video provides a high level overview of Microsoft Project Server 2010 and focuses in on Project Visibility and Reporting. This area is a major pain point for many organisations and in this video we see how organisations can enhance their project reporting and increase project visibility.

How to Survive Agile

tvpm — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:11:20 +0000

Many organizations today have adopted Scrum, Kanban, XP and other agile frameworks and practices. It does not matter if you are a developer, tester, interaction designer, project or product manger, the chances are really high that you have already been hit by the agile or will be hit pretty soon. This video shows you ways how to survive in the agile environment. You will learn many survival strategies and how to apply them your everyday life. Watch this video on http://ndc2011.macsimum.no/mp4/Day3%20Friday/Track3%201340-1440.mp4