vFunction Konveyor Meetup - Why App Modernization Projects Fail - Aug 2022.pptx

This document provides guidance on successful project execution through 18 chapters. It discusses that project success is highly predictable when proper project management procedures are followed. Some key elements of success include accurate planning, reasonable goals, experienced resources, and allowing for adequate contingencies to address unforeseen conditions. While no project manager can guarantee success, they can manage projects to stay within budget and schedule by closely following proven project management steps such as developing a work breakdown structure, estimating durations, creating a logical schedule, controlling procurement, monitoring daily progress, implementing recovery plans if needed, and closing out the project upon completion.

This document provides an overview of an Agile summit held by the Michigan Digital Government. It introduces Agile concepts and frameworks like Scrum. Key benefits of Agile cited include accelerated time to market, improved ability to manage changing priorities, and enhanced software quality. The summit objectives were to introduce Agile, discuss how it differs from traditional approaches, consider its application in the public sector, and allow for discussion. Agile principles like early delivery of working software, self-organizing teams, and responding to change are outlined. The document also discusses scaling Agile to multiple teams, risks, and contracting approaches to support Agile projects.

The document discusses scope creep, providing cases and preventative actions. It defines scope and scope creep, noting that scope creep is a common issue on many projects that can lead to going over budget and missing deadlines. The document then provides tips for controlling scope creep such as thoroughly understanding requirements, having a well-defined WBS, using change control forms, and expect some scope creep to occur. It encourages sharing lessons learned from experience to help improve projects and careers.

Mary Kyriakopoulos has over 30 years of experience in project management, operations, and business analysis. She has managed projects across multiple industries including banking, capital markets, pensions, and facilities management. She is skilled in all aspects of the project life cycle including requirements gathering, change management, testing, and implementation. She is looking for a new opportunity to contribute her extensive experience and skills.

Mary Kyriakopoulos has over 30 years of experience in project management, operations, and business analysis. She has managed projects across multiple industries including banking, capital markets, pensions, and facilities management. She is skilled in all aspects of the project life cycle including requirements gathering, change management, testing, and implementation. She is looking for a new opportunity to contribute her extensive experience in leading projects and teams.

Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) is a project management approach that allows you to finish nearly all your projects on time, to reduce their durations by about 40%, to provide excellent visibility and anticipation capability, and to create a much better working environment with much less stress and firefighting. CCPM is the Theory of Constraints' project management "solution". In this webinar, Philip Marris, who has more than 30 years of experience in the use of the Theory Of Constraints (TOC) in over 250 different companies, presents the essential components of the "Critical Chain Way": how to plan projects, how to execute them, how to implement CCPM and how to further improve performance with a focused continuous improvement process. Many real life examples will be included drawn from Marris Consulting's extensive Critical Chain experience in a great variety of environments and a great variety of types of projects: new product development, MRO, Capex projects, 10 day projects and 10 year projects... He explains the why he recommends using TOC's 5 focusing steps to project portfolios, a process often resulting in increases in productivity of more than 100% (2 to 3 times more projects completed per year). He adds his own points of view and recommendations: the possibility of combining Agile with CCPM, the relationship between CCPM and the PMI's (Project Management Institute) body of knowledge, the combination of CCPM with Lean Engineering...and how easy it is to get these extraordinary results.

The document discusses several aspects of software project management including risk management, managing people, and teamwork. It describes the risk management process of identifying, analyzing, planning for, and monitoring risks. Examples of different types of project, product, and business risks are provided. The document also discusses the importance of people management in projects and different personality types and motivations that managers should consider. Motivation factors like an individual's needs hierarchy and creating a balanced environment are addressed.

The document discusses several topics related to software project management including risk management, managing people, and teamwork. It describes the key activities of a project manager including planning, risk assessment, people management, reporting, and proposal writing. Specific risks at the project, product, and business levels are defined and strategies for risk identification, analysis, planning, monitoring, and mitigation are outlined. Effective people management is also emphasized, including motivating team members through satisfying different human needs and personality types. A case study demonstrates how addressing an individual team member's motivation issues can improve project outcomes.

Converting from a three tier or monolithic application to microservices can be daunting, and often comes at a non-trivial cost or effort. So why are organizations doing it, and how do they justify the expense? We will discuss some of the practices and migration strategies used by organizations who undergo this sort of transformation, such as extracting functions through refactoring and converting them to microservices. As the journey progresses, we learn that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to making applications cloud-native… so the real question needs to be ‘how do I find the right approach for me?’ We can help you begin to answer that question for yourself, by discussing the facets of consideration such as technical, procedural, and risk tolerance to name a few.

The document discusses criteria for determining project success. It argues that using only time and budget constraints is too simplistic, as projects can exceed budgets but still be successful, or finish on time/budget but fail to achieve business goals. The document recommends setting a single target for project net present value at a defined point in time to account for schedule, cost, and revenue/profit forecasts. This allows managers to make decisions based on full business consequences and define success targets with contingency reserves for the project team, management team, and management.

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The document discusses project management techniques and introduces Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM). It notes that traditional project management methods often result in projects being late, over budget, below specifications and below quality. It then outlines some of the key principles of CCPM, which aims to resolve issues in traditional approaches that slow things down and lead to inefficiencies. Specifically, CCPM uses a schedule with few internal due dates to allow for early finishes, aggregates contingency at the project level rather than at the task level, and accounts for resource constraints that the critical path method does not. The document argues this approach can deliver projects on time, faster and with increased productivity compared to traditional methods.