Slides use to support a hands on workshop for integrating Agile into your higher ed teams.

1. Project Management Thinking Simple, Agile.

2. About me. Sault Ste Marie, ON Assoc. Director VeloCity 2 kids (boy/girl) BA, Msc Co-founder

3. About you?

4. Observations Project Management: designed by engineers for engineers Software is designed to support specific types of projects and people Project Management is a people process

6. A Project is… “a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service, or result” – PMBOK Guide (2004)

7. Typical project Building a few web pages for a department. Developing a simple web application that collects student information. Using Twitter/Facebook/Ning for whatever specific reason* Recruiting cycle for students.

8. A Project is… “ongoing, with many false starts and chronic scope creep. Governed by committee(s), success is not often tangible.” – Higher Ed.

9. The Chaos Conflicting expectations Isolated or independent departments “This is my ‘third hat’ I am wearing” Committees. Never ending change requests.

10. Essential tool #1 – Text editor.

11. Project definition First meeting needs a “memorandum of agreement” Define the goals, objectives, and/or outcomes Sign it.

12. Triple Constraint Scope Time Cost

13. Triple Constraint What am I trying to build/deliver? How long will it take? How much will it cost (time = money, etc)?

15. Follow a process, deliver a product.

16. # S: (adj) agile, nimble, quick, spry (moving quickly and lightly) "sleek and agile as a gymnast"; "as nimble as a deer"; "nimble fingers"; "quick of foot"; "the old dog was so spry it was halfway up the stairs before we could stop it" - http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=agile

17. Image from http://www.flickr.com/photos/18091975@N00/

19. From http://www.flickr.com/photos/orcmid/3879384912/

21. What about software? Web based or not? How many people are using it with me? Privacy implications? Cost.

22. There are three choices. Microsoft Project (larger teams) OmniPlan (for the mac users) Basecamp*

24. Microsoft Project is bad Forces you into a resource driven process Assumes people will do the task assigned Full time job to use the tool efficiently Expertise is required

25. Gantt charts Allow you to break down the task list to chunks You can assign resources You can management from a central hub

26. Hosted solutions Good: Allow for more flexibility on access Good: Monthly costs, do not go for per user model Bad: Does not connect with your directory service (ADS, LDAP, etc) Bad: You don’t know where you data is unless you install something yourself*

27. Ground rules Question the use of gantt charts Organize into short iterations Requirement-based approach Schedule tasks involving external groups http://bit.ly/psweb_agile

28. Track the project.

32. Use a process that works for you and don’t let software dictate how you do it.

33. Contact me. Jesse Rodgers Associate Director, VeloCity -- University of Waterloo Blog: http://whoyoucallingajesse.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/jrodgers Email: jrodgers@uwaterloo.ca