How To Demystify Agile Project Management: Part 2

How To Demystify Agile Project Management: Part 2

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In Part 1 of our blog, How To Demystify Agile Project Management, we took a deeper dive into Agile Project Management - what it is, how Scrum fits into the picture and, who really benefits from an agile approach to work (Hint. Pretty much everyone trying to get work done.) Now, it’s time to roll up our sleeves and see Agile Project Management in action. Let’s start at the very beginning.

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Build Your Backlog

What’s on your laundry list?

Pause and consider your goals, projects, significant milestones, and smaller targets. Then, start capturing and visualizing the big picture work. In Scrum, these laundry lists are called Backlogs, and the big picture work in the laundry list are known as Epics. The beauty of building your Backlog with Epics is the instant transparency and team engagement it creates. Everyone is hands-on in your agile environment, working toward the same goal. Plus, for the record, other planning tools out there skip this important, and kind of epic (pun intended), first step in the planning process, eliminating the 50,000-foot team view of their work. We know that creating Epics are a crucial part of the planning process.

Here at Get To Done, our team creates a slew of Epics that help us corral our site improvement projects. For example, there is an Epic for each new Get To Done feature we want to develop and implement, an Epic for user-experience upgrades, and an Epic for bugs we need to fix, to name a few. Every member of our team can add new items to any Epic as ideas evolve, and work emerges.

Build Your Backlog

Epics in the Results View

Plan Your Sprint

What can your team achieve within the next Sprint?

You’re ready to get real. It’s time to start peeling back the layers of your Epics and chunk them into actual work. Again, in Scrum, those chunks of work are called Stories. Breaking down your Epics into digestible Stories for the next Sprint not only fosters team collaboration and agreement with every step, but it also pinpoints dependencies and pegs what needs to happen first.

Write Your Stories

What does “Done” look like?

Sharpen your pencil and get to writing, but know how your Story ends. Meaning, ask yourself what needs to be accomplished for the Story to come to a close for the Sprint? In Scrum, this is known as the Done Criteria. Remember, this is an iterative process, so for each Story, be realistic and descriptive as to what needs to be completed within this Sprint’s time period. In other words, don’t bite off more than you know you can chew.

Write a Story

Writing and adding details to a new Story

Add Ownership

Who is involved with the Story?

You know that ownership breeds pride in craftsmanship. Add instant accountability by agreeing on who’s responsible for the work, who is coordinating the work, and who is completing the work. We’ve discovered at Get To Done, that the more ownership we spell out in each Story, the less time we waste on the front-end, letting us get down to business faster.

Customize Quality Control

How will you keep quality in check?

Certain tasks that are both necessary and repetitive, right? That’s where customized checklists, known as Storyotypes, come in. Each Storyotype ensures standards of care are maintained. One of our favorite Storyotypes is called Delivery and Production. We customize this Storyotype for our Sprint planning, as well as other Scrum events like Sprint Reviews and Sprint Retrospectives (more on that later in this blog).

Add Storyotypes

Applying a Storyotype to a Story

Estimate Size and Effort

What’s it going to take to complete this Story?

We’re talking more than just time here. Take into consideration the complexity of the work, the number of people involved, the number of unknowns to potentially discover, as well as the time expected to complete the Story. Scrum uses Story Points as the measurement unit that rates relative effort of work. Here at Get To Done, we use Points with values ranging from 1 (little complexity/quick delivery/no unknowns) to 8 (high complexity/lengthy delivery/critical unknowns). If a Story’s Points exceeds 8, we use the Split Story feature to break down the work and make sure it is still manageable by the team.

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Task It Out

Can the Story be broken down even more?

You bet it can. Take your Story one step further and create individual Tasks that can be easily tracked. At Get To Done, we know that much of our work doesn’t always feel linear, but the more we can break our work down into steps, the greater our productivity. (Plus, when you’re in the thick of your Sprint, there’s something so satisfying about moving a task across the board from “To Do” to “Doing” to “Done.”)

Manage and Move Your Workflow

Are you ready to start your Sprint?

It’s almost time to rock and roll. With your team’s buy-in, move each Story from the Soon View into the Now View. Our Get To Done team has found these buy-in discussions very helpful, as a touchpoint during our daily Standups and end of Sprint Retrospectives (more on that in a bit).

Prioritize Your Plans

Which Stories are the most critical?

You’re inching closer to the starting gate, and with a little more detailed sorting, you’ll kick off your Sprint with a bang. In the Now View, use the drag and drop technology to prioritize what to tackle and when. Our team finds it useful to remember the sage advice of Chinese entrepreneur Jack Ma, "If there are nine rabbits on the ground, if you want to catch one, just focus on one."

Prioritize-Stories

Prioritizing Stories in the WIP view

Start Your Sprint

To-Do, Doing, or Done?

You’re about to feel super productive. Move your Tasks across the To Do, Doing, and Done columns as you complete them. Once all Tasks are complete, the Story can move to Done too. (There’s nothing quite like that feeling of satisfaction every time a task makes its way to Done. Try it. We think you’ll agree.)

But, sometimes things go sideways, and a Task gets stuck or delayed. In Scrum, this is called an Impediment. Use the Magenta Impediment cards to immediately update a Task’s status, letting your team know what’s up.

Stay In Sync

How’s it going?

Start your day with a good cup of coffee and a Standup, Scrum’s short 10-15 minute face-to-face meetings. We use our Get To Done Standups as a check-in on project status and as a time to identify any obstacles that are in the way. That quick burst of face-to-face time goes a long way to propelling your team’s progress.

Track Your Productivity

Who’s working on what?

You got this. (And so does your team.) But, it’s always good to have your finger on the team’s pulse. Use Team Stream to gather real-time updates throughout the day. Our Get To Done team uses Team Stream as a visual aid or instant snapshot of our daily progress, kind of like an added bonus to our Standups.

Team-Stream

Daily progress review using Team Stream

Retro and Review

How did the Sprint go?

Did you just give a “Woot Woot?” You should. You finished your Sprint, and it feels good. Now, take a moment to access some analytics and productivity reports, and gather valuable feedback to lather, rinse, and repeat for the next Sprint. Scrum calls this process the Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective.

At Get To Done, we end each Sprint by paying particular attention to our team’s reflection of what went well and what could have gone better. These gut check discussions are made more insightful with customized Sprint reporting, such as our Utilization Summary Reports. We know that by using real metrics, we are better equipped to adapt and adjust our work for the next Sprint.

Seeing Is Believing

Now that you’ve seen Agile Project Management in action and fully demystified, it’s time to get started. Join the others who have already discovered the benefits of Get To Done and start your next Sprint off right.

Easier Agile Project Management Is Here

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