PMI Project Knowledge Areas, Intro
ProjectEngineer.NET is aims to build better project managers each day. That's why we're launching this video series to teach current and future PMP students about the ten knowledge areas of the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK).....
PMI Project Knowledge Areas, Video 1: Project Integration
Project Integration is the “mother” to all other project knowledge areas and brings the knowledge and processes together where there is overlap, synergies and flow between other knowledge areas. It has the most processes of any knowledge area at 7 and spans the entire set of process groups. Looking at....
How to Hold a Useful Sprint Retrospective Meeting
One of the elements of Agile project management that makes it truly high performance is the Sprint Retrospective meeting. It takes place at the end of a sprint (project iteration) and its goal is to improve the processes being used by the project. Sprint Retrospectives are the secret that makes....
How to Run a Useful Sprint Review Meeting
Sprint Review meetings represent the finish line of the sprint. It's a great feeling to finish a project iteration. In a sprint review meeting, finished product is presented to the product owner and the stage is set for the next iteration. In agile project management, a sprint review meeting is....
Guide to Agile Certification
The universe of Agile project management certifications is truly mind blowing. There are at least 27 different designations, with different letters after your name, from three major certifying bodies. In contrast, doctors, lawyers, and engineers only have one certification body in any location, and you can perform your education and practical....
Agile Sprint Planning
The Agile project management revolution has affected planning more than anything else. Whereas project managers used to create a complex plan of the entire project and then hope to stick with the plan, today project management consists of iterations, or sprints, which adjust themselves to new project realities at each....
The 7 Responsibilities of a Scrum Master
In the scrum development framework (part of the Agile project management methodology) the scrum master is the servant leader for the scrum team. They are not the boss nor the project manager. Rather, they promote scrum practices and facilitate scrum meetings. They are the resident scrum expert within the team....
How to Build an Agile Roadmap
In agile project management, the roadmap is the guiding document that provides the overall project plan. It is not equivalent to a traditional project schedule (gantt chart) because it is not a carved-in-stone plan whose exact execution is directly linked to project success. Because priorities change, the product roadmap is....
The Agile Principles, Broken Down
The 12 Agile Principles, which were developed at the same time as the Agile Manifesto, provide a little bit more detail from the Agile founders relating to vision and implementation of the Agile project management methodology. In the 12 Principles, the founders expand on the four points in the Manifesto....
The 4 Main Agile Roles
In project management, efficiency is everything. Projects that run like well oiled machines create high quality products and delighted stakeholders, especially the product owner. Fortunately, the Agile roles and responsibilities make it easy to create just such a project. But let's get some semantics out of the way first. Agile....
