Project Management Principles to Improve your Work, Life, and Mental Health Dee Teal

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ReflectCelebrateIteratePrioritiseVisualiseAnalyse Complete

Analyse

Project: Website UpdatesAnalyse

WEBSITE UPDATES

Task Effort

✅ • Backup 0✅ • Update Core/Themes/Plugins 2☑ • Add new Products to Inventory 8☑ •Write Descriptions☑ • Gather Images☑ • Prepare and Optimise Images☑ • Create the Products☑ • Upload to Website ☑ • Publish Products☑ • Update Site Header 3☑ • Add Phone Number to Header 5☑ • Add New Blog Post 3☑ • Write Blog article☑ • Find Feature Image for post

Project: HolidayAnalyse

WEBSITE UPDATES

Task Effort

✅ • Research Options 13✅ • Flights☑ • Accommodation☑ • Activities☑ • Bookings 5☑ • Flights☑ • Accommodation☑ • Activities☑ • Packing 3☑ • Buy new Luggage☑ • Health 5☑ • Travel Insurance☑ • Imunisations☑ • Get Travel Meds

Visualise

Prioritise

Do what adds value first

Iterate

by Henrik Kniberg

by Henrik Kniberg

Complete

Set a definition of DoneMeasure your backlog items against it!

• The feature / story has been coded

• It has been tested by the team collaborating with our Product owner (unittest, reviewed, tested for scalability if needed etc)

• It has been released to our staging environment

• Once released to staging our Product Owner and external testers either put their thumbs up or down. If they are happy it is "Done" it gets moved to the Done column and becomes ready to show in the Review

Celebrate

Reflect

What went well?

What did not go well?

What will we do to improve?

“Do what Adds Value First”

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Further Reading

• What is Project Management? http://www.businessnewsdaily.com/4014-project-management.html

• Agile Project Management for Dummies (cheatsheet) http://www.dummies.com/careers/project-management/agile-project-management-for-dummies-cheat-sheet/

• Scrum: The art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the time https://www.scruminc.com/new-scrum-the-book/

• Scrum Alliance: https://www.scrumalliance.org

• Getting Started with Kan Ban (pdf) - https://kanbanery.com/ebook/GettingStartedWithKanban.pdf

• Project Management at Stack Exchange - http://pm.stackexchange.com/

• Asana - https://app.asana.com/

• Trello - https://trello.com/

Questions

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