Recent 7+ minute video on agile metrics and estimation. The explanation is upported by very useful visuals.
Category: Construct Families
Six great families of project know-how:
business, systems, design, Kaizen, waterfall, and agile
“Project Procurement Management”
Lecture length (47′) and lecture style (slide deck) presentation. Solid, well-oganized information; slow and steady pace. (To avoid marketing messages, start at 1:00).
“Types of Contracts”
Here’s a good 6′ overview of agreements, contracts, and contract types. Orientation is toward PMP exam prep, but the outlines and definitions here are clear, concise, and useful.
“Agile Velocity and Capacity Planning Relationship”
Good 6′ video that defines and uses the constructs of team “velocity” and “capacity”
“Sprint Review vs. Retrospective”
Assuming Scrum, here is a good 3′ comparison of review and retrospective meetings
“Sprint Review Meetings”
Nice upbeat explanation of sprint or iteration review meetings, in < 5 minutes. (2019)
“Journey Mapping to User Story Mapping”
Here is an excellent 5/2020, 4 minute post on how to link Product Team and the Product Discovery cycle to Development Team and the Product Delivery cycle! And, for background and more detail, here is a longer 1/2021 article, “Mapping User Stories in Agile”, by the prestigious UX firm NN/g. It compares and contrasts User […]
“Project Quality Management”
Comprehensive 11′ overview, organized per PMI’s PMBOK 6.
“How to Estimate a Project”
Brief (<4′) introduction to estimating plan-driven project scope, time, and cost. Pays useful attention to linkages among these.
“Agile – Iteration Planning”
This 5.5-minute overview addresses many key points re iteration planning. Among these is the important one of “team velocity”. This enables forecasting of agile team performance. In this sense, it is parallel to plan-driven project management constructs in Earned Value Management (EVM), such as Cost Performance Index (CPI).