Project Management for Humans. Brett Harned

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FIGURE 2.3 Place cards on your Kanban board to track progress. Want an example of a tool that will help with this? Check out Trello, JIRA, or Pivotal Tracker.

      • Extreme Programming (XP): It’s not a part of the X Games, but you might find yourself drinking Mountain Dew while administering this Agile approach intended to improve quality by responding quickly to change. In essence, change can happen within sprints, and teams can change the course of their work being done/planned immediately.

      • Adaptive Project Framework (APF): This one may resonate for PMs who recognize that you have to adapt your methodology to the project’s goals. With APF, you document project requirements, functions, subfunctions, and features before determining project goals. The team then operates in iterative stages rather than sprints, but stakeholders can change the project scope at the start of each stage. So, truly, you adapt to the project and its people.

       Change Management Methodologies

      Risks are inherent in all projects. You just know something will come up, and you want to prepare for them. These methodologies are meant for PM folks who are hyper-focused on what could pull a project off the rails and subsequently come up with stable ways to get it back under control.

      • Event Chain Methodology (ECM): If critical path wasn’t enough for you, you want to take a look at ECM. The six principles of ECM make up a technique that is focused on identifying risks and their potential effects on a project’s schedule. Think of it this way: the ECM PM is living in doomsday. Everything is a risk, and they know how to handle it. On one hand, it makes the team comfortable. On the other, it can be sort of gloomy to always think about the worst that can happen. After all, your control ends somewhere, right?

      • Extreme Project Management (XPM): Not to be confused with XP or a sick afternoon of Parkour, XPM is all about embracing change and altering project plans, requirements, resources, budgets, and even the final deliverable to meet changing needs. Extreme!

      • PRiSM (Projects Integrating Sustainable Methods): This methodology for managing change is focused on sustainability, or using existing organizational resources, to reduce negative impact on environmental or social impacts. It follows six principles that are derived from the UN Global Compact’s Ten Principles. This is serious process work that can make your lives better in major ways.

       Other Business Processes, Methods

      New ways of working materialize every once in awhile and catch some traction. In fact, one could easily pop up before the publishing of this book, because we’re always looking for better ways of working based on what we deliver. While not all of these may really be classified as “methodologies,” and they might not apply to you, they are worth mentioning because you might be able to lift an ideal from one methodology to apply it to your own work.

      • Lean: Do more with less! This methodology is focused on removing unneeded steps, resources, and budgets in order to deliver a product.

       NOTE LEAN UX

      If you’re in the web world, you’ve likely heard about applying the Lean methods to user experience work, which has traditionally weighed heavily on project budgets due to an abundance of deliverables (site maps, wireframes, flow diagrams, content inventories, taxonomies, and so many more). Lean UX brings ideas and the actual design of the experience to the forefront of the process, with less emphasis on deliverables. A simple process might look like Figure 2.4.