Negative Stakeholder Management

There are positive and negative stakeholders in every project (according to PMBOK). Positive ones will benefit from project implementation, for example their work will become more effective, more automated, easier, and more fun. At the same time negative stakeholders will have problems once the project is implemented. For example, they will be fired because their job will be done by new software.

Type of Project Reports

Most of the organizations have their own template for reports, in addition to that the Project Manager and your team has their own format.

Each report takes own time to collect information, write, read, maintain and act on the action items.

Based on my experience, come up with the important reports required in the project, purpose and the important aspects needs to be covered in the report.

Importance of Non Functional Requirements

The functional requirements are day-to-day requirements which business users and stakeholders needs in the product.

It is important to consider the other requirements also; these are called “Non-Functional Requirements” and fits into the organization's operational environment. This is the obvious requirements that your business users may not think about it.

Velocity in Agile Projects

This article talks about calculating the team velocity of the agile project and addressing the benefit of the team velocity.

Velocity is an extremely simple, powerful method for accurately measuring the rate at which teams consistently deliver business value. 

It is a measure of how much product backlog items the team can complete in the given amount of time.

It is used the compare the iterations for the given team on a given project, the note is only completed work counts for calculating the velocity.

Kanban Board for Agile Projects

In agile projects it’s common practice to visualize and project status in white board of the project war room.
The lean management in the production industry also uses this kind of practice.
“Kanban” in Japanese means, loosely translated card or sign. The kanban boards used to view the three point’s time task and team so that the whole team understands the current status of the project and work n an autonomous, motivated and collaborative manner.