📅 2024-02-15 — Session: Agile Project Management and Planning Techniques

🕒 18:55–20:05
🏷️ Labels: Agile, Project Management, Iteration Planning, Stakeholder Communication, User Stories
📂 Project: Business
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM

Session Goal:

To explore and refine agile project management techniques, focusing on user stories, iteration planning, and stakeholder communication.

Key Activities:

  • Discussed the creation and structuring of user stories for agile audits, planning the first four weeks of a project.
  • Reflected on release planning in agile development, emphasizing feature estimation, task prioritization, and scheduling.
  • Explored iterative planning approaches, comparing velocity-based and commitment-based methods.
  • Outlined initial project planning steps, highlighting stakeholder engagement and communication strategies.
  • Reviewed agile planning strategies, including iteration duration selection and uncertainty management with buffers.
  • Examined multi-team agile project planning, focusing on coordination and complexity management.
  • Investigated monitoring techniques for agile projects, using tools like burndown charts and task boards.
  • Emphasized effective communication in agile projects, ensuring transparency and collaboration.

Achievements:

  • Gained insights into agile planning and monitoring techniques.
  • Clarified the importance of stakeholder communication and iterative planning.

Pending Tasks:

  • Implement the discussed agile planning techniques in upcoming projects.
  • Further explore multi-team coordination strategies in agile environments.