This document is a sample Request for Information (RFI) created by Victor Hernandez for an organization seeking an agile project management application. The RFI contains questions from the organization about requirements management, scrum processes, kanban methodology, and other agile features. Victor provides responses highlighting VersionOne's ability to support these areas through features like backlogs, sprints, status workflows and more.
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Download our ready to use Project Management Kick-off Meeting Template PowerPoint Presentation Slides to present the main project objective. Provide an initial overview of the project including vision goals and objectives with the help of this content ready kick-off meeting in project management PPT visuals. The project management kick-off meeting PowerPoint complete deck comprises of easy-to-understand templates such as project description and scope, core team, project management team, responsibility assignment matrix, RACI- rapid, project management cycle, work breakdown structure, project cost estimate, project management Gantt chart, communication plan, work priority allocation, tracking plan etc. Furthermore, all elements of given templates are fully customizable. This allows users to create a presentation very quickly. Explain the project, its background, business needs and why it is important for stakeholders and company using this initial project agenda presentation deck. Get access to this PPT design and you are ready to hold a project kick-off meeting. Our Project Management Kickoff Meeting Template Powerpoint Presentation Slides are good for group dynamics. They generate a collaborative feeling. https://bit.ly/3h7WGk9
How Educational Institutions Can Provide Digital Mark Sheets To Students Us...DigiLocker
Digital Locker is Govt of India's cloud based platform to issue digital copies of documents & certificates directly to Indian residents (based on Aadhaar) and make these sharable with various agencies. Citizens can also upload their documents online using Digital Locker, digitally sign them using eSign and use the system to electronically submit these documents for various Government services.
With reference to State Education Institutions/ Boards, DigiLocker can be used to push various education certificates and examination mark sheets in digital format. The State Education Board can also facilitate its online users to submit supporting documents from Digital Locker in various online application and admission forms.
Benefits for State Education Institution/ Board:
- Issuing digital marks sheets and certificates
- Forgery proof verification of mark sheets/certificates
Benefit to Students:
- Anytime, anywhere access to mark sheet & certificate
This is a sample handover plan aimed at providing ready to use tool in situations where a project manager exits a project before finish and handover to a new project manager. also useful in cases where functional/project managers are pulled out of project due to resource curfew situation and project goes on hold.
See enhanced version of this (https://www.slideshare.net/ujjwaltrivedi/prd-template-for-product-managers). A sample product requirement document draft for mobile apps. It can also be used for quick wireframing and estimates of any kind of software. It should generally be a useful tool for business analysts, product managers, pre sales consultants. It is modern, complete and agile.
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Presenting this set of slides with name - Data Migration Steps Powerpoint Presentation Slides. This PPT deck displays twenty-six slides with in-depth research. We provide a ready to use deck with all sorts of relevant topics subtopics templates, charts and graphs, overviews, analysis templates. When you download this deck by clicking the download button below, you get the presentation in both standard and widescreen format. All slides are fully editable. change the colors, font size, add or delete text if needed. The presentation is fully supported with Google Slides. It can be easily converted into JPG or PDF format.
This presentation i had prepared for the workshop that i conducted for JP Morgan Employees. In the beginning it was rolled out to few employees & they rolled to people in management level too.
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Inquiry
Document Flow
Create a Quotation
Output of the Quotation Documentation
Creation of a Sales Order with Explicit Reference to the Quotation
Creation of a Sales Order without Explicit Reference to the Quotation
Output of the Sales Order Confirmation
Creation of the Quantity Contract Documentation
Creation of a Sales Order with Explicit Reference to the Contract
Creation of a Sales Order without Explicit Reference to the Contract
Output of the Contract..
Tips to help you complete Form DS-160, the U.S. nonimmigrant visa application form.
This SlideShare presentation covers
1) How to get started
2) How to update your Form DS-160/retrieve your DS-160 confirmation page
3) How to resolve a technical issue
4) How to upload a photograph
5) What to do if you are unsure how to answer a particular question
As per my experience in Business Analysis and Presales,this the process I identified for presales executive roles and responsibilities involved in the Prospect Initiation to Account Closure.
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Webinar slides describing the high costs of maintaining legacy applications and the opportunity made available by application decommissioning to free data from legacy apps, remain in compliance, and redirect valuable resources to strategic IT projects. Includes case studies based on EMC's InfoArchive platform.
This presentation i had prepared for the workshop that i conducted for JP Morgan Employees. In the beginning it was rolled out to few employees & they rolled to people in management level too.
Project End Report - Project Management template Simon Misiewicz
Optimise-GB provides you with a free template for the Project End Report. This is a very useful document at the end of the project to take stock and compare the achieved results against those originally expected. This report lists the project deliverables and against each will suggest what was completed in time, cost and within the quality requirements. This document will also list the number and descriptions of the change requests, and the associated impact of each on the project. Please contact me should you have any questions on simon@optimise-gb.com. Many thanks Simon Misiewicz
Inquiry
Document Flow
Create a Quotation
Output of the Quotation Documentation
Creation of a Sales Order with Explicit Reference to the Quotation
Creation of a Sales Order without Explicit Reference to the Quotation
Output of the Sales Order Confirmation
Creation of the Quantity Contract Documentation
Creation of a Sales Order with Explicit Reference to the Contract
Creation of a Sales Order without Explicit Reference to the Contract
Output of the Contract..
Tips to help you complete Form DS-160, the U.S. nonimmigrant visa application form.
This SlideShare presentation covers
1) How to get started
2) How to update your Form DS-160/retrieve your DS-160 confirmation page
3) How to resolve a technical issue
4) How to upload a photograph
5) What to do if you are unsure how to answer a particular question
As per my experience in Business Analysis and Presales,this the process I identified for presales executive roles and responsibilities involved in the Prospect Initiation to Account Closure.
Sample Cloud Application Security and Operations Policy [release]LinkedIn
Modern employees have lots of data to work with, and they expect easy-to-use tools that work everywhere they do. To accomplish this, organizations are now taking on a “Cloud First” strategy, and moving critical infrastructure onto hosted providers. This de-centralization means that as ever-increasing amounts of data and processing are shifted out of the direct control of IT and security management, security teams must institute a suite of controls that will ensure the safety of company and customer data. We have developed this Cloud Application Policy Framework to help those responsible for the Confidentiality, Accessibility, and Integrity of corporate data identify the controls that must be in place to successfully complete this mission.
Application decommissioning stop spending millions supporting legacy applicat...Flatirons Solutions®
Webinar slides describing the high costs of maintaining legacy applications and the opportunity made available by application decommissioning to free data from legacy apps, remain in compliance, and redirect valuable resources to strategic IT projects. Includes case studies based on EMC's InfoArchive platform.
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When was the last time you were able to learn a complex concept, or complete a non-trivial task without understanding the context that surrounds the thing you were working on? For example:
understanding requirements (or user stories) is difficult without understanding the business initiative (or epic) that gave rise to it,
understanding a defect is difficult without understanding the conditions that uncovered it,
creating test cases is difficult without understanding how the application is supposed to work.
Flexibility in Software Development Methodologies: Needs and BenefitsCognizant
Companies can benefit from introducing flexibility into their software development methodologies, including incorporation of the Waterfall and Scrum models in different software modules of the same project and utilizing geographically distributed teams.
1. Request for
Information (RFI)
The following document is a sample Request for Information (RFI) that I created for an organization
seeking a PPM application for organizations using Agile practices for their delivery of projects, programs,
and portfolios. The RFI was completed and delivered in July 2014, and preceded a successful evaluation
of the VersionOne software.
All questions came directly from the organization and have not been altered; the questions are in bold
typeface and preceded by an arrow bullet point. Responses are original, with the intent to avoid strict
marketing messaging, and were augmented with sample screenshots to illustrate features and
capabilities.
Victor Hernandez
Sr. Software Sales and Solutions Engineer
victorehernandez@gmail.com
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Allow users to manage and track requirements using agile methodologies
VersionOne is an agile project management tool built from the ground up to support agile software
development methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban, Lean, XP, SAFe and hybrid.
Upon installation, VersionOne offers several templates including Scrum, DSDM, Xtreme Programming,
and AgileUP; each template automatically updates the terminology and labels in the system pertaining
to each methodology.
VersionOne supports Kanban and Lean methodologies through configurable Status workflows in the
StoryBoard virtual whiteboard.
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VersionOne allows for management and tracking of requirements through the following system objects:
Epics – A large-grained feature or initiative to capture business value and that allows for
breakdown into smaller Epics or User Stories.
Themes/Feature Groups – A related set of backlog items that is useful to group for reporting
purposes. For example: Security, Reporting, Integration, User Interface, or Payment Processing
could all be feature groups within a project.
Goals – A measurable strategic target that drives the direction of one or more projects.
Requests – A submission to consider extending or enhancing the functionality of a system.
Projects – A collection of releases, sprints, team members, and backlog items. Projects may
have defined end dates or be on-going.
Programs – A cross-hierarchical collection of projects used for filtering and reporting
purposes.
Schedules – A collection of sequential sprints that can be used on a project or release.
Member Groups – A flexible collection of team members that can be used for convenience to
group sets of system users.
Teams – A group of cross-functional members who work together within a project to deliver
a set of features.
Provide users the ability to use the scrum approach to record requirements and communicate
them as stories
In VersionOne, an organization using Scrum would record requirements using Backlog Items (User
Stories). These User Stories are recorded and managed for a respective Product or Project Backlog in
the Product Planning section, and display in rank order within the Backlog, depending on their value,
priority, or risk.
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The system provides fields and attributes to capture all aspects of the User Story – the Description, the
Estimate (Story Points), Links, Attachments, and all other relationships that help define the business
value from the user perspective.
Detail Page of a User Story:
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Allow scrum manager/scrum master to manage stories
In VersionOne, a Scrum Manager / Scrum Master user would be granted a Project Admin role to create
backlog(s) of User Stories for a given project. The User Stories can be ranked within their respective
backlog, sized, prioritized, and scheduled to Sprints for a development team.
The Scrum Manager / Scrum Master can review and manage the planning and delivery of User Stories
through views such as the TeamRoom:
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My Dashboard (a personal, configurable reporting interface):
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Provide users with the ability to combine these stories to create an epic or break them into sub-
stories
In VersionOne, User Stories can be used as a starting point to generate a parent Epic…
…thereafter, User Stories can be created as children of the Epic, or existing Stories can be grouped and
associated to the Epic; alternatively, An Epic can be broken down into a group of User Stories.
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Provide users with the ability to create and track sprints
In VersionOne, users with a role of a Project Lead and above can create and track Sprints in the system.
Thereafter, once a Sprint is in motion, it can be tracked through views such as the Team Room or Sprint
Dashboard:
Team Room
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Allow users to implement constructs of the Kanban methodology
In VersionOne, the Storyboard virtual whiteboard provides the following Kanban board capabilities:
Visualize Workflow – Configure Storyboard’s Status columns to match the team’s workflow and
horizontal lane groupings to highlight card attributes, such as Class of Service
Limit Work-In-Process (WIP) – set WIP limits per Status columns or group of columns to manage
capacity
Manage Flow – set Thresholds to visually measure and alert on a card’s time-in-status
Make Policies Explicit – capture the Kanban board’s Policies and make them highly visible and
accessible
Customize and Color-Code Cards – configure cards to display information valuable to the team
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Track Workitem Cycle Time to understand the amount of time it takes for a card to go through the full
cycle:
Use the Cumulative Flow Report to track the amount of work that is in each Status as teams work.
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Allow developers to manage the process and provide their status
In VersionOne, Developers can define the process (workflow) in any of the virtual whiteboards –
Storyboard, Taskboard, and Testboard – and update and provide their work status by moving a Story,
Task, or Test Card to the respective Status column:
Allow scrum manager/scrum master to assign the time required for each task and create a report
to depict actual time versus estimated time for each task
In VersionOne, a Scrum Manager / Scrum Master can assign Detail Estimate (hours) to a User Story’s
Tasks and/or Tests:
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A Scrum Manager / Scrum Master can then use a view such as the Task Quicklist to track data such as
Task Detail Estimate versus Actual Effort (Done):
Provide users with the ability to define tasks as testing tasks
VersionOne provides Tests to track testing tasks as children of User Stories and Epics. Tests allow for
capturing acceptance criterion for validating that a User Story or Defect fix has been implemented
properly.
A user can capture information such as the following to execute the Test:
Description
Setup, Inputs, Steps, Expected Results
Links and Attachments
Comments
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Tests are tracked by the team in the Testboard virtual whiteboard:
Ability to support multiple projects within one tool
VersionOne allows for an unlimited number of projects to be managed at any given time, with the ability
to support complex organizational business hierarchies and structures, such as Portfolios, Programs,
Products with corresponding Releases, and stand-alone Projects.
The Project Tree construct allows for creating a hierarchy of folders or containers for system assets, such
as Epics, Stories, and Defects. The Project Tree is the backbone for organizing data in the system, and
provides the filtering context to display data for planning and reporting.
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Ability to support Cross-project Rollups
In VersionOne, a Program is a cross-hierarchical collection of projects used for filtering and reporting
purposes.
Programs are set up to facilitate the display of data coming from a number of projects managed in the
system. With a Program in place, reports provide cross-project rollup metrics and information.
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Program Summary Report
Ability to create and manage epics
In VersionOne, Epics allow an organization to define large items that are later broken down into smaller
components to be delivered by teams. Epics can be evaluated and prioritized individually and
independently based on attributes such as their Value, Risk, Swag (Epic Estimate), Priority, etc.
Epics are created and managed in their own, discrete view – the Epic Tree. The Epic Tree view allows a
user to add new Epics, inspect all child Epics and/or their respective Backlog Items – User Stories,
Defects, Test Sets – and review progress.
As User Stories of an Epic are tracked and completed, the progress made at this level rolls up to higher
levels, child Epics and parent Epics.
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The Epic Tree view
Epics are visually managed in the Epicboard – an Epic Kanban board; Epics broken down across a number
of project teams can be visually managed by the respective team, with a workflow unique to their
Epicboard.
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The Epicboard
The Epic Timeline allows a user to view planned and historical Epics over the course of time. It
complements the Epic Tree and Epicboard views by communicating when Epics have been or are
scheduled to be delivered.
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Built-in team collaboration
In VersionOne, team collaboration is enabled via the following capabilities:
The VersionOne TeamRoom is a dedicated team-based dashboard that enables agile developers focus
on getting their job done. Designed to support the daily activities of today’s agile development teams, a
TeamRoom’s customizable views help teams plan, track, and collaborate with ease.
TeamRoom
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A PlanningRoom provides a focused dashboard for planning, collaboration and progress visibility to
program and portfolio planning teams who need to create and manage functional plans. Groups who
plan at different levels of an organization can create PlanningRooms to focus on their respective areas of
responsibility.
PlanningRoom
Conversations – similar to a Facebook/Twitter exchange, allows team members, stakeholders, and
others to actively collaborate in the system by capturing comments, decisions, updates, etc., related to
specific project work – e.g., Epics, User Stories – common topics or contexts, or purely social interaction.
Conversations are available from the Detail Page of any item, TeamRooms, PlanningRooms, and a user’s
Conversations page.
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A user’s Conversations page
Additional team collaboration features:
Email Notifications – users create subscriptions to project events and receive email notification
using your email client.
Links – hyperlinks to external resources can be added to an item such as an Epic, User Story, or Tasks
to provide contextual information.
Attachments – documents, images, and other files can be attached to items in the system.