How many leaders have a defined project or work management process? Does anyone use an agile project management framework?

CPT Nick Coleman — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 21:52:32 -0400

Essentially every staff officer is a project manager. But how many leaders on staff use a defined process to visualize their priorities, current work items, and their status? Please share how you and your team manage your projects/work.

Response by SFC Melvin Brandenburg made Aug 5 at 2019 9:55 PM

SFC Melvin Brandenburg — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 21:55:37 -0400

Even NCOs use a decision making process. Personally I like MDMP

Response by LtCol Robert Quinter made Aug 5 at 2019 10:05 PM

LtCol Robert Quinter — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 22:05:36 -0400

Probably outdated, but used PERT in my time for major projects

Response by CPT Nick Coleman made Aug 5 at 2019 10:05 PM

CPT Nick Coleman — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 22:05:46 -0400

Is anyone interested in learning about Agile project management? Just something I enjoy helping people learn about

Response by SPC Kevin Ford made Aug 5 at 2019 10:54 PM

SPC Kevin Ford — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 22:54:09 -0400

I do this every day at work. I work in the software field where this is common.

Response by Luke Rosenfeld made Aug 6 at 2019 9:34 AM

Luke Rosenfeld — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 09:34:18 -0400

RallyPoint uses Atlassian's Jira software to manage our Kanban style project management board... it helps us stay lean and agile!

Response by COL John McClellan made Aug 6 at 2019 10:18 AM

COL John McClellan — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 10:18:35 -0400

Army engineers use these techniques all the time!

Response by SFC Private RallyPoint Member made Aug 6 at 2019 10:22 AM

SFC Private RallyPoint Member — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 10:22:18 -0400

In the early 2000's, while serving in the reserves, I worked for a company that did most of its business online. My job was twofold. It was a small company and since I had network experience, I ran the IT Department; I also worked as a Project manager. I wrote dBase reports for the Marketing and Sales Department. My method of keeping projects managed and completed in a timely fashion was a dBase program I wrote for myself. It was set to notify me daily of expected completion dates of all the project requests submitted by other departments. I based my workload on a first come first served basis, unless of course a higher manager needed something completed at a higher precedence than someone else. The program I wrote worked pretty good for me because I could set priority of my projects and keep on track of the projects being worked. Unfortunqtely, I never patented that program and it stayed with that company after I left.

Response by Sgt Michael Mazza made Aug 6 at 2019 10:57 AM

Sgt Michael Mazza — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 10:57:00 -0400

We have just started attempts to use agile project management for those initiatives that have unclear and sometimes changing requirements. Our key stakeholders are learning and refining their business processes so agile works well to build upon successes or learning.

Response by SGT James Murphy made Aug 6 at 2019 12:16 PM

SGT James Murphy — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 12:16:48 -0400

I've only Got Two Spots on my White Board 1. DO IT NOW! 2. Done!!

Response by SGT Private RallyPoint Member made Aug 6 at 2019 6:19 PM

SGT Private RallyPoint Member — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 18:19:13 -0400

It's been a while since I've seen PM discussed on RP. I recommend Taiga kanban (self-hosted for more privacy) for it's clean board look and ease-of-use.

This thread discusses popular PM tools.
https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/do-you-prefer-a-specific-project-management-app-solution-have-you-used-one

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