Posted on May 22, 2016
Have you ever used kanban boards for project management - Trello, Taigo, or similar?
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https://jtspratley.com/blog/kanbans-for-small-team-project-management
"If you're not familiar with Trello or the concept of a kanban board, it's pretty simple. Items on a list are each treated as "cards." Offline versions often use Post-It Notes moved across a series of bins. It's based on a process developed for manufacturing, but widely adopted by the lean software development community. "
"If you're not familiar with Trello or the concept of a kanban board, it's pretty simple. Items on a list are each treated as "cards." Offline versions often use Post-It Notes moved across a series of bins. It's based on a process developed for manufacturing, but widely adopted by the lean software development community. "
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I only dealt with them back when I was a management consultant at a client's contract assembly facility.
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CPT James Kinane - Why does it seem so rare to find PM's that are in the Agile world? I spoke with a 20 year PM that said he's rarely used it.
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CPT James Kinane
SGT (Join to see) - My personal feelings are that there are a few reasons. The first is that it's relatively new compared to PMP. Another, is that it appears to many that PMI came out with their version to maintain market share vs. competing theories / practices from other organizations. The last is that many experienced PMs were doing much of that stuff already by necessity -- PMI-PMP principles are very rigid, and when you don't own, and/or don't know, and/or can't control all of the variables, projects can quickly get out of control. Experienced PMs (including non-PMP ones) we're already doing this. I suspect because the Agile certification is a relatively new one, they feel it's better to let their resume and experience do the talking.
One thing to think about -- credentials are good, but they only suggest competency. PMI promotes their credentials to the point of presenting them as more than what they actually are. In fact, much of the PMP hype out there is actually promoted by PMI. I know many non-certified PMs that are highly sought after to run projects based on their proven track record. Likewise, I know more than a few PMPs that I would not let empty the waste baskets on a project. Not saying you should just accept what I'm saying as truth, but if you look around with a healthy skepticism, I think you'll arrive at seeing things like many experienced others do, as do I. Mostly we view the credential as something that meets company certification targets and related to that, a tie breaker in hire/layoff scenarios.
Sorry to have written a book here.
One thing to think about -- credentials are good, but they only suggest competency. PMI promotes their credentials to the point of presenting them as more than what they actually are. In fact, much of the PMP hype out there is actually promoted by PMI. I know many non-certified PMs that are highly sought after to run projects based on their proven track record. Likewise, I know more than a few PMPs that I would not let empty the waste baskets on a project. Not saying you should just accept what I'm saying as truth, but if you look around with a healthy skepticism, I think you'll arrive at seeing things like many experienced others do, as do I. Mostly we view the credential as something that meets company certification targets and related to that, a tie breaker in hire/layoff scenarios.
Sorry to have written a book here.
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CPT James Kinane - The book is okay, though somewhat off. I was only speaking of Agile/Scrum/KanBan PM, not certs. Seems you're saying experienced PM's know how and when to turn a traditional project agile.
They're . . . . agile PM's :P
They're . . . . agile PM's :P
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SGT (Join to see) thanks I am a little rusty. How does Office Project management differ from Trello, Taigo, or similar?
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Sounds like you're asking about Project Management as a whole versus Trello and et cetera. If so, Trello and company are apps you could use to aid PM.
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