Agile & proj management

Or baby steps project delivery

Objective of agile

• Adapt to change in project priorities

• Rapid release, and short time to market

• Avoid burnout

• Shift responsibilities from project manager to team

Principles

• People over procedures

• Working code over comprehensive documentation

• Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

• Responding to change over following a plan

Starting a project

• Gather high level requirements from client/ stakeholder(s)

• Define MVPs, or what has the highest priority to be delivered

• Initial design with engineers

• Draft a timeline based on initial tasks and deliverables

• Run planning sessions to split the work into manageable chunks

• Define definition of done

• Define best practices and conventions

• Choose programming languages, tools and applications

• Setup a document management system (confluence)

• Setup a board (kanban/scrum) (confluent)

• organise code on a git server (github, gitlab, bitbucket)

• define work automation (cicd) for rapid release

• Setup test environment

Managing risks