February 2019 Meeting

Quick Recap

  • Interests: Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Project Plans, Project Debriefs, Accountability (between meetings), Integration, Buy-In, Emerging Trends, Best Practices, Scoping, Traditional Project Management Practices, Meeting other Professionals on Campus, ROI Influence
  • Challenges: Cross Organizational Projects, Tracking Pending Projects, Cultural/Team/Organizational Buy-In, Transparency, Accountability, Stakeholder Management and Buy-In, Scope Creep, Meeting Overload, Commitment, Staying "On Process" When Pressure Mounts, Managing Client Expectations, Collaboration, Differing Processes/Methods/Tools, Time Tracking, Lack of Consistency, Varying Communication Vehicles, Tool Integration, Measuring ROI, Kanban Task Breakdown
  • Successes: Task Breakdown, Collaboration, Negotiation, Story Mapping, Kanban, Project Process Agreement, Avoiding Scope Creep, Collaborative Project Chartering, Event Storming
  • PM Tools: Low Tech (People and Interactions or Process and Tools), HIVE, TeamworkPM, iMeet, Function Fox, Kanban Boards, JIRA, Google Docs - Assign a Task, GitHub, Trello, Basecamp, Slope
  • Routing and Approval Tools: InMotion Now, GitHub, ProofMe, iMeet, Google Docs, Email