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Rules to Better Work Items ( AKA Project Management )

It's been called 'herding cats'. Managing the project team and keeping the client well informed during the release development phase is critical. Keeping development of the release on track involves maintaining transparency on the important variables of project management: time, scope, budget and quality. This is achieved by maintaining a strict project schedule with particular activities taking place regularly like clock-work.

Some activities are run internally; some are run with the client.

Day	Internal activity	With the client
Monday	Stand Up meeting (or Scrum) Management Reporting Build review
Tuesday	Stand Up meeting (or Scrum)	Conduct a test please with the client Triage additional item requests Obtain approval for additional items and budget overuns Release update/debrief Release sign-off Release deployment Next Release approved
Wednesday	Stand Up meeting (or Scrum)
Thursday	Stand Up meeting (or Scrum)  Architecture/code review
Friday	Stand Up meeting (or Scrum)  Internal build Test please

 

Figure: Only with a strict project schedule can the manager coach the team to success!