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Managing Projects With Team System. Joel Semeniuk Imaginet Microsoft MVP – Team System Microsoft Regional Director. Managing Software Projects Does it matter? Top-10 Things that Do. Source: The Standish Group International, The Standish Report. Software Project Management Influencers.
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Managing Projects With Team System Joel Semeniuk Imaginet Microsoft MVP – Team System Microsoft Regional Director
Managing Software ProjectsDoes it matter? Top-10 Things that Do Source: The Standish Group International, The Standish Report
Project Management RealityWhat PM’s Care About Technology Impact Impact of Quality Managing Change Uncertain Requirements Uncertain Estimates Productive Teams Monitoring & Reporting Uncertain Plans Tools Metrics
VSTS and Project ManagementTeam System through the Lifecycle Tailoring
Project InitiationGetting Started Configure The Portal Activities and Risks Create Project Configure the Project Choosing the Project Template
Project PlanningGoing from Chaos to Construction Costing And Estimating Activities and Risks Requirements Resourcing Activities And Risks Contracting Purchasing Communication
Monitoring and ControlMaintaining Focus Managing Progress Managing Risk Managing Scope Activities and Risks Metrics Imbedding Quality Managing Quality
Summary of Practices • Team System PM is fundamentally built around agile practices • Initiating • You have a choice in Process Templates • Choose a common template (Scrum) then customize • Planning • Estimate outside of Team System with Excel • Standardize work decomposition models • Used Fixed Duration Iterations • Make time for Iteration Retrospective Meetings
Summary of Practices • Monitoring and Control • Introduce feedback mechanisms • Daily, weekly, phases, releases • Focus on high bandwidth between team members • Focus results of feedback • Make changes as necessary • Work Items – fields, rules, workflows • Work Item Queries • Keep interactions simple and repeatable • Use milestone based reporting to focus on results
Of Course…. Book signing at 5:30 on Thursday ME!