Agile Project Planning: Projectmanager.com and Microsoft Excel.
3 Constraints:
1. Budget - how much you spend - limited resources - choices - prioritise - manage/plan - deliver
greatest value
2. Time - when do we need it - how urgent
Dependencies - concurrently Start-to-Start
Olympics - May
3. Scope - what are we delivering? House, Website - Requirements - avoid Scope Creep
Elicit Requirements - open ended questions
Portfolio - entire enterprise
MoSCoW - to prioritise Requirements
Why do we need Portfolio Planning?
1. To define best practices by standardizing project management across the organization and
manage your project portfolio in a centralized place. As visual planning templates make it easy to
drive repeatable success so you can deliver projects on time — every time.
2. To prioritize the right projects because
Project planning is complex. We need to estimate the effort and budget required to deliver a
project. Then prioritize the work that will provide the most value against your business goals. See
when resources are available so you can set realistic completion dates.
3. We track every dependency in order to keep the chaos in check. Create a detailed Gantt chart. Set
dates, phases, and milestones to keep everyone on track. Highlight project dependencies across
teams and activities. Now you can manage risk and deliver on time.
4. So we can see progress as it happens by visualizing progress on a project roadmap. Quickly create
a Dashboard chart to understand what is left. Even better, automatically calculate the percent of
work completed as you go. The progress bar moves to the right as you deliver against your project
plan.
5. You can showcase your project team's success to the Sponsor. As you enter data, the software
quickly analyses and reports on the results of your work. Create list reports, pivot tables, and charts
to show how you are doing against your project roadmap.
Duration - expressed in Days = 5 days
Efforts - expressed in Hours = 20 hours
Dependencies:
- Never link Stage or sub-stage name or headers
- Leave the first task blank - very 1st Task
Metrics:
Schedule Performance Index - SPI
Cost Performance Index - CPI