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The six-fold approach to assess project health

WEBArjuna said, “For one, we need to enable sustained health through focused and timely coaching of our project managers and team members, as required. Secondly, we need to gain visibility to improvement areas and value-creation opportunities in the project through objective observations and customized health-checks” “Excellent.

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CHOW #117- Project Health and Project Status

WEBAbout Paramu Kurumathur. Pramu has over 37 years of industry experience and is an expert in Project / Program Management and Project Health. Paramu is a principal consultant and the practice lead for PM Power’s Strategic IT suite of services and Program Management suite of services. View all posts by Paramu Kurumathur.

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Software Project Health

WEBASSESS TRUE PROJECT HEALTH WITH PROFES360. The tool that accurately and quickly assesses the health of the project, proFes360 is available for free for a limited time. This tool is based on the framework discussed in the book, “Software Project Health- An Epic Retold”. Please click on the button below to use the tool. Take Me To proFes360.

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CHOW #107- Evolution of Project Health Assessment

WEBIn the blogs we had a very active discussion on the assessment of project health. I would like to know your perspectives on how health assessment varied from 1990s to now, and how is assessment likely to evolve as we go to the 2030s? Suggested Solution: We are noticing a trend away from external health assessment to self …

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PM Power Consulting

WEBMosesraj R, CIO. “PM Power have been partnering with us for the last 3 years in helping advance our Agile practices. From helping Scrum teams to size their stories better, do better grooming to making the teams more self-organized and self-managed, PM Power has become a reliable and trusted partner for us.”. Pankaj Grover, VP of Engineering.

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Assessing Software Project Health- An Interview with Anantha …

WEBA vital sign is the highest level key indicator of health. However, to get a picture of a vital sign we need observable units. These are called manifestations. Manifestations paint a picture of a healthy vital sign. By observing these manifestations, we are able to assess the health of a project and arrive at actionable improvements.

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5 Dimensions of Healthy Backlog

WEB2. P rioritized. The backlog should be prioritized progressively. While in the initial stages it may contain a dump of all stories – more as a wish list, it needs to be progressively elaborated and prioritized. The prioritization step will help the teams balance both technical and functional stories together so that risks and dependencies can

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More on Agile Maturity – Health check…

WEBHealth check. Words influence one’s thoughts and create a mental picture of what is intended and how it will be achieved. One of the options that came up was terming this exercise a health check instead of maturity assessment. A small change with a great impact, with use of this term the pressure to become mature gets replaced with a desire

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CHOW #60– Can you identify some components of a vital sign

WEBIn the blog post published along with this CHOW, we talk of a six fold approach to assess project health. This blog post is an extract from our book, “A Project Health Assessment Framework”, that is expected to hit the stands this year. In the post we identify a manifestation and the component to which it belongs within the vital sign …

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Software Project Health

WEBSensing the true status or health of a project, at any point in time, will help project managers get an early warning of troubles ahead, apply timely actions where needed and steer the project on a path of Continuous Improvement. The writer in me was fascinated by Ananth’s presentation on the above concepts. Here was something that …

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7 Tips for Effective Program Management (A practitioner’s approach)

WEBPramu has over 37 years of industry experience and is an expert in Project / Program Management and Project Health. Paramu is a principal consultant and the practice lead for PM Power’s Strategic IT suite of services and Program Management suite of services. View all posts by Paramu Kurumathur. Trackbacks/Pingbacks.

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'The Five Tantras of Enterprise Agility'

WEBPramu has over 37 years of industry experience and is an expert in Project / Program Management and Project Health. Paramu is a principal consultant and the practice lead for PM Power’s Strategic IT suite of services and Program Management suite of services. View all posts by Paramu Kurumathur

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Co-location of teams and collaboration in Agile

WEBWhen I started as an Agile coach eight years ago, my only relative and somewhat debatable “agile” experience was some iterative development we did on a very large product over nearly 19 months. This was a project where we worked with 6-week iterations for 14 iterations!! One thing that project taught me was the value […]

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The Role of Functional Managers in an Agile/Scrum environment

WEBThe functional Manager is made accountable for delivery and the SM is made to report to the functional manager. While they may have implemented the letter of Agile/Scrum by having an assigned SM and ensuring the ceremonies are run as per defined guidelines, the person in the background controlling things ends up being the functional …

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Effective Appraisal Dialogue – How not to and How to

WEBAppraisal dialogues are dreaded events both for the manager and the reportee. Appraisal dialogue can leave both of them energized, motivated and drive towards next level of performance or can leave both of them feeling low and negative, depending on the way the dialogue is conducted. Here are two scenarios to contrast…..

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Flows and Transitions with Vishu Hegde

WEBWe welcome back a fellow PM Powerian, Vishu Hegde in conversation with Chitra where Vishu shares a flow of thoughts on Connecting with organization vision with 2-steps removed; Building a temple and laying bricks; Principles of flow and identifying bottlenecks using flow metrics

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CHOW #14– What online tools do you suggest for a distributed …

WEBHer team is co-ordinating with NGO representing the states, district health officers, volunteers and her own team that visit these folks on the ground. Their team needs to showcase the mobile application to the NGO every week and to some selected volunteers. Roopa, the team’s analyst and couple of senior developers discuss with the …

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The role of a transition manager

WEBA transition manager is typically trained and exposed to many unique aspects that are very critical in the transition phase of an engagement. these may include: – translating the MSA KPIs into operational parameters and set up the overall engagement governance. – conducting a detailed due diligence on the scope of work and specific areas to

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Organization culture and Agile – how to make it work

WEBWhat is Culture: Organizational Culture is “the way things are done around here” (Deal & Kennedy, 2000). Organizational Culture is defined as the underlying beliefs, assumptions, values, and ways of interacting that contribute to the unique social and psychological environment of an organization. It is how the organization thinks when we

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Seven Tenets of Agile Knowledge Transition Methodology

WEB6. All other members play the role of impediment removers and play no other role. 7. Doing the actual work creates better learning than classroom type learning. The below characteristics and the model includes the tips and tricks of making a successful and smooth transition of product knowledge.

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Why do we need a ‘Three Track’ Lean-Agile Product Development …

WEBProFes360- An Online Tool for Project Health Assessment; PM Competency Assessment; Project Management Workshop; On the Job Coaching for Project Managers; Mindful Leadership. A Sniff of Mindfulness; First Breath; Leadership in Knowledge Era 2.0; Mindfulness@Work; Digital Transformation Consulting. Digital …

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Transitioning Managed Services

WEBPramu has over 37 years of industry experience and is an expert in Project / Program Management and Project Health. Paramu is a principal consultant and the practice lead for PM Power’s Strategic IT suite of services and Program Management suite of services. View all posts by Paramu Kurumathur

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