The following three short questions and answers provide us an opportunity to assess key learning in the course in the areas of project leadership and strategic project management.
Reflect on your experience with this course especially your group project and answer the following questions. References will not count towards the page limit. Be original in your response to get the highest score.
Note – In our course material we have chapter end summaries from Dr. Jeff Sutherland, go through those anecdotes in case you have a “writers blocs”.
If you were to do a project again, at work or in another course at Boston University, how will you set yourself and your team up for success?
Provide three solutions and explain why they are relevant. Agile project management is grounded in the strong belief that communication is very important.
Also, Inspection, Transparency and Adaptation is important. Explain how this occured in your project or can/should have occured so that the project has a better chance to succeed.
Select any one chapter from the reference books such as – Sutherland, J., & Sutherland, J. J. (2014). Scrum: The art of doing twice the work in half the time (1st ed.). New York, NY: Crown Business Publishing.
Highsmith, J. (2010). Agile project management: Creating innovative products (2nd ed.). Boston, MA: Addison-Wesley Professional. Annotate the highlights of the chapter and provide your insights using one page (single space, about 500 words)
– Do you agree with the authors? What do other researchers say about the same topic? Get one other citation at least. Maximum three citations.