Steps in Agile Project Management

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Agile Project Planning

Successfully plan an IT project is an effort which a team(s) makes at the beginning of a project to ensure that work proceeds as well. These steps also help ensure the project meets its deadline and overall goals. For the following important steps in planning IT projects:

  1. Coming together for a kickoff meeting
  2. Company leadership show it is invested in the project and engaged
  3. Create a project charter that includes objectives
  4. Establish proof of principle with feasibility study
  5. Establish a budget
  6. Establish a project scope
  7. Create project management plan
  8. RACI Matrix creation
  9. Decide best methodology for project
  10. Conduct regular check-in meetings with all stakeholders
  11. Establish product specification
  12. Maintain risk register
  13. Get user feedback early and often

Steps to Create an Agile IT Project Roadmap

  1. Roadmaps before project plans
  2. Think like a boss
  3. Create project timeline
  4. Split out the project workstream
  5. Identify key activities
  6. Plot activities across the IT project roadmap timeline
  7. Define milestones
  8. Validate roadmap with active team for realistic
  9. Always keep updating

Agile Release Planning

  1. Establishing clear, specific and measurable goals.
  2. Determining the work to be done
  3. Understanding date and budget constraints
  4. Monitoring progress from sprint to sprint

Sprint Planning

  1. What is the goal for the current sprint?
  2. What product backlog items are ready and contribute towards the sprint goal.
  3. Who is available for this sprint?
  4. What is the team’s capacity based on everyone’s availability.
  5. What items will the team include from the sprint backlog based on sprint goals and team capcity.
  6. How confident does the team feel that they’ll be meet the sprint goal.

Daily Meetings

Stand up meeting in agile where daily team share critical information, openly discuss issues and hold themselves and each other accountable with following types of agile stand-up meetings:

  1. Scrum stand-ups
  2. Kanban stand-ups
  3. Review Meetings

Sprint Review and Retrospective

Steps to carry out a smooth sprint review meeting are as follows:

  1. Stakeholders are Welcome
  2. Agenda for Sprint Review
  3. Share the Sprint goal and forecast
  4. Product Increment Demonstrations
  5. Feedback collection
  6. Product Backlog presentation

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