5 Checklist to Implement Agile Project Management

You won a project; You and Your Team is happy. But let me clarify your happiness will become a chaos or a curse if you don’t manage your project well. This article will discuss 5 tips to execute Agile Project Management.

1# Exploration Phase Checklist

• Evidence
  • Project Charter: product vision, roles & responsibilities of the team,
• Tools
  • Software Project: Visual Studio TFS (visual studio Online)
  • Communication Tools: Microsoft Team
• Activities
  • Team Construction (Project Manager, Business Analyst, Technical Writer, Developers (Designer, Programmer))
  • Team Norms Agreement (how team work such as solving problem)
  • Data Gathering with Customer

2# Planning Phase Checklist

• Activities
  • Backlog/User Story: a small client valued function to satisfy the business objective (i.e. display the testimony)
  • Estimate for the backlog / user story
  • Creating milestone / release plan based on project charter
  • Splitting release plan to the iterations
  • Prioritizing the user story using Kanban Board on Visual Studio Online and put into iteration.
  • Agreement from the stakeholder
• Tools
  • Similar with Envision Stages
• Evidence
  • Release and Iteration Plan

3# Iteration Phase Checklist

• Activities
  • Stand-up meeting with daily tasks
  • Creating project based on iteration plan
  • Deploying to staging environment
  • Testing the user story
  • Capture lessons learn, adjust expectation
• Tools
  • To Do List like Microsoft Planner
  • Visual Studio
  • Azure or Hosted Environment
• Evidence
  • Documentation of the released features
    • Testing Document
    • UAT Document for Customer

4# Release Phase Checklist

• Activities
  • Review what has been delivered
  • Confirm from Customer and Business Benefit
  • Brainstorm and adapt to change (arrange sprint, modifying user story, change team member)
• Tools
  • No specific tools needed
• Evidence
  • User Manual and Documentation for finished features

5# Closing Phase Checklist

• Activities:
  • Deploying to the production site
  • Closing the project
  • Documenting knowledge artifacts
• Tools
  • No Specific
• Evidence
  • User Manual for the entire features