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Loading ...Team Status Report Week 4
The Project Management Plan has progressed this past week in all areas. Most significant improvements were on the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and the Time Management Plan. The Time Management Plan being implemented is effectively a one page document with a short table of the key project milestones described with fields identifying the responsible lead, start and end dates, as well as an indication of whether the milestone has been reach. All milestone end-dates are color coded and displayed on a calendar, providing an easy method to understand where the team is and where it needs to be in order to meet the projects timelines. Together with the WBS and weekly sub-team status reports which indicate milestone-related activity status (Good, Caution, Critical) and potential issues, we now feel we have a very effective planning framework. A Draft of the Project Management (PM) Plan will be submitted to Dr. Carr and Rodolfo sometime this week for feedback.
The project charter mentioned last week has been completed for review, and the survey was updated based on feedback provided by NetHope Member Organizations. The most significant adjustment to the survey was including questions that are intended to capture Member Organizations’ feelings in regard to the Agile PM principles. It may be interesting to note that the UW project team is using some of the Agile PM principles within this project. Specifically this is being done by keeping the Project Management duties light and letting sub-teams and members lead assigned activities against planned milestones. Given the size of the project, the virtual environment (covering 8 time zones) and that as students we are in effect working part time, a light approach to project management became obvious over the past couple of weeks.
The main area of caution this week is the need to get the survey posted and survey results back from the Member Organizations as quickly as possible. Given our set timeline, this is a critical path task.
