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Sharing my perspective on Business Analysis and Project Management and providing some insights and suggested tools for businesses
Status Report – pulse checking for your project
Status report is always a critical document that allows you and your team get aligned. We have to let the team know what is happening and what will be happening.
Project Planning – do the right things before doing the things right
At the project planning stage, we will start from forming the project team and define the ground rules for the team to follow. And, finally get the consensus of the team on the detail project plan.
Project Initiation – get prepared for project start
Project initiation can mean different to different organizations in terms of details. However, I would simply identify it as everything that occurs before a project is approved for detail planning.
Differences Between Project Managers and Scrum Masters
It is quite usual that people mix up Project Manager and Scrum Master. Some may think the two are interchangeable, and some may simply interpret a project manager working in scrum team is a scrum master. In fact, they are two different roles.
Estimation – A waste of time?
It did not take that long when I worked with the team to estimate the story points. Indeed, the process to determine whether the stories are small enough, is actually an estimation process, you just do not have a number to each story separately.
What is a project?
Being a project manager role for years. Even sometimes I may forget the fundamental concept when I am asked to “follow up a project”, while the “project” may not even fit into the definition of a project.