Avoid these four pitfalls if you want to make a project plan work...

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This post is the third and final post in a series of three about Scrum in offshore projects.

 This post is the second post in a series of three about Scrum in off-shore projects.

Question:       Name two things that slow down your project.

I’m a project manager in a matrix organization.

So what else do you need in order to deliver your project within the classic ‘triple constraint’? For your sake (and mine) I will limit myself to my personal top 3.
 

From what I learned at the largest Belgian telco, there are 3 important aspects besides the ‘usual suspects’ (issue/risk/budget management, planning … and all the stuff you get to know by reading the methodology books).
 

Our TenForce Execution product can be parameterized in many ways. We successfully support Scrum, helpdesks, manufacturing plants, complaint handling... using the standard TenForce features. One such example we would like to highlight in this post is using our product - TenForce Execution - to follow-up CMMI compliancy of a department or for portfolios of projects.

So this is how we worked it out:

One of the actions you can take to professionalize the way your organization handles projects, is to organize its start. Project request identification and ranking is one of the key activities you’ll need to set up. TenForce Project Portfolio Request management automates and supports this process in a pragmatic way.

OK let’s have a look at some other parts of the Swiss army knife. After the successful post about idea management it’s time to explain how to do requirements management … with the same application.


Requirements hell index

We got a test for you. Do any of the following statements apply to your analysis, development and/or test processes?