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Managing Projects With Team System Joel Semeniuk Imaginet Microsoft MVP – Team System Microsoft Regional Director
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Managing Projects With Team System. Joel Semeniuk Imaginet Microsoft MVP – Team System Microsoft Regional Director. Managing Software Projects Does it matter? Top-10 Things that Do. Source: The Standish Group International, The Standish Report. Software Project Management Influencers. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Managing Projects With Team SystemJoel SemeniukImaginetMicrosoft MVP – Team SystemMicrosoft Regional Director
Managing Software ProjectsDoes it matter? Top-10 Things that DoExecutive Support 1
8User Involvement 1
6Experienced Project Manager 1
4Clear Business Objectives 1
2Minimized Scope 1
0Standard Software Infrastructure 8Firm Basic Requirements 6Formal Methodology 6Reliable Estimates 5Other 5Source: The Standish Group International, The Standish Report
Software Project ManagementInfluencers
Project Management RealityWhat PM’s Care About
Uncertain Estimates
Monitoring & Reporting
Technology Impact
Uncertain Requirements
Productive Teams
UncertainPlans
Impact of Quality
ToolsMetrics
Managing Change
VSTS and Project ManagementTeam System through the Lifecycle
Tailoring
Initiation
Planning
Control
Project InitiationGetting Started
Activities and Risks
Create Project
Configure the
Project
Configure The Portal
Choosing
the Project
Template
TFS and Project Initiationdemo
Project PlanningGoing from Chaos to Construction
Activities and Risks
Requirements
ActivitiesAnd Risks
Resourcing
Contracting
Purchasing
Communication Costing
And Estimating
Planning Poker
TFS and Project Planning
demo
Monitoring and ControlMaintaining Focus
Activities and Risks
Metrics
ImbeddingQuality
ManagingQuality Managing
Progress
ManagingScope
ManagingRisk
TFS and Project Monitoring
demo
Templex
Summary of Practices• Team System PM is fundamentally built around
agile practices• Initiating
• You have a choice in Process Templates• Choose a common template (Scrum) then
customize • Planning
• Estimate outside of Team System with Excel• Standardize work decomposition models• Used Fixed Duration Iterations• Make time for Iteration Retrospective Meetings
Summary of Practices• Monitoring and Control
• Introduce feedback mechanisms• Daily, weekly, phases, releases
• Focus on high bandwidth between team members• Focus results of feedback• Make changes as necessary
• Work Items – fields, rules, workflows• Work Item Queries
• Keep interactions simple and repeatable• Use milestone based reporting to focus on results
Of Course….
ME!
Book signing at 5:30
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