RE: [AM] AM and Project Mangement

[email protected] wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> I have been through the entire AM web site and read every single 
> essay(twice). I am an ardent supporter and practioner of AM methods. 
> However no where is anytning mentioned about Project Management 
> principles an how its supported by AM. e.g. what are the PM artifacts in 
> 
> AM and how are tasks, resources, time schedules managed in an Agile 
> project. 
> 
> I still find myself hauling out MS Project to get the project scope 
> documented and to report back to stakeholders on project schedules. Do 
> other Agile modelers find themesleves in the same situation.
> 
> Thanks
> Lester

Check out my favourite PM Guru, Rob Thomsett and his book Radical 
Project Management:  
IN/0130094862/qid%3D1020680019/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F0%5F1/104-7666515-9279947 
for some great advice and a set of principles and practices for what he 
calls eXtreme Project Management.  Since I model *and* manage projects 
here, I can recommend AM and XPM as a great combination for agile IT 
projects.  No-one who's into AM will find anything foreign in XPM... 

Thomsett's website is at http://www.thomsett.com.au/ and you can 
probably find free stuff from him and other XPM practitioners at 
Cutter's Agile Software Development and Project Management resource 
centre (http://www.cutter.com/project/index.html).

On the subject of MS Project, it's strength (and only useful feature 
IMO) is in outlining project tasks and assisting with dependencies. We 
are currently investigating tools that will distribute the job of 
recording actuals back to the person/s assigned to the task/work-chunk.  
Our organisation is happy to invest the time and cost in doing this 
because it now values the metrics and better estimates that will result 
in future projects, by keeping records of how long things really take to 
accomplish.  

regards,

Felicity

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Felicity Jones
Information and Learning Technologies Analyst
Open Learning Australia
http://www.ola.edu.au/

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