A “context”, “scope”, or “system context” diagram models the project product or major deliverable by a simple representation of it in its key business contexts. These contexts are a) the main human nd-users and b) the (non-human) systems that interface with the product. To represent the interfaces (i.e. channels or media) connecting users to product, […]
Category: Modeling Development
Creating and maintaining, for all key stakeholders, high-level visual representations of what is to be developed and how, that is, of a) what “done looks like” and b) of project phases by which the team expects to get done.
“Context Diagrams”
Useful 3′ introduction. Though this video assumes an IT system and context of use, it should be pretty easy to generalize from this to other system varieties and contexts.
“Understanding the Context of Use”
Nice (8 minute) presentation on researching context of use. Discusses identifying end-users, modeling their contexts and purposes, the design challenge of serving them, and generating ideas about features and affordances of potential project products.
“27 Product Backlog and Refinement Anti-patterns” (not a video)
Nice post listing 27 of them.
“Rich Pictures in 5 Minutes!”
Brief tutorial on a powerful notation for collaborative problem-situation analysis and representation. Originated in Peter Checkland’s Soft Systems Methodology (SSM).
“Journey Mapping to User Story Mapping”
Here is an excellent 5/2020, 4 minute post on how to link Product Team and the Product Discovery cycle to Development Team and the Product Delivery cycle! And, for background and more detail, here is a longer 1/2021 article, “Mapping User Stories in Agile”, by the prestigious UX firm NN/g. It compares and contrasts User […]
“How to Estimate a Project”
Brief (<4′) introduction to estimating plan-driven project scope, time, and cost. Pays useful attention to linkages among these.
“Agile – Iteration Planning”
This 5.5-minute overview addresses many key points re iteration planning. Among these is the important one of “team velocity”. This enables forecasting of agile team performance. In this sense, it is parallel to plan-driven project management constructs in Earned Value Management (EVM), such as Cost Performance Index (CPI).
“Project Scheduling – PERT/CPM | Finding Critical Path”
The general topic here is scheduling in plan-driven projects and, specifically, critical path methodology (CPM). This video goes into techniques such as doing the forward and backward passes to surface schedule attributes (e.g. “ES” earliest start, “LS” latest start, etc.). For anyone studying for the PMP exam, knowing these techniques is recommended. Historically, on the […]
“What is the Critical Path Method (CPM)”
Good 5 minute video. Some historical context along with useful definitions and disambiguations.