How Agile Manager Start/Manage Projects

Project managers need a broad range of skills. Here is the complete DNA/guide to know
- How to Start a Project,
- How to Execute Project and
- How to Monitor and Control Project &
- How to Close the Project

Here we'll try to cover how we manage project in Agile/MS Environment.

1). Initiation Phase:

• Business/Client
• Collect Ideas/Initiatives Meeting Strategic Goals
• Create Vision & Scope Document 
• Identify BPO/PM/Stakeholders
• Raise HLE Request
• Request Project Proposal/Charter from Consulting Team
• Consulting Team - Onsite
• Review Scope Document
• Create High Level Business Requirement
• Create Conceptual Design Document
• Identify High Level Risk/Issues/Dependencies
• Generate High Level Estimates
• Review/Assess if additional capacity is required for fulfillment
• Submit Project Proposal / Project Charter (containing all above details)
• Business/Client
• Review & Validate Project Proposal/Charter
• Get Finance/PPM Approval
• Determine Project Mode Hybrid/Agile
• Submit Project Work-Order to consulting team
• Initiate Project Kick-Off

2). Planning Phase:

• Business/Client
• Conduct Sprint Zero (Including Consulting Team and Other Stakeholders/Teams involved)
• Consulting Team
• Conduct Sprint Zero
• Elicit/Understand Business Requirement, Define Scope, Collect Prioritization, Define MMF
• Writing Features/User Stories, Writing Acceptance Test Cases, Conduct Three Amigo Sessions, 
• Estimate User Stories (ROM Estimates)
• Create High Level Design Document, Review Designs With Review Board
• Create Ux/Wireframes
• Highlight High Level Risk, Assumptions, Constraints, Dependencies, Impediments etc.
• Generate Project Roadmap/Schedule based on Demand-Capacity & Project Prioritization & Client Commitment Dates, UAT Dates etc.
• Make Capacity Reservations & Gain Approval from Offshore DM
• Send/Gain Approval on Sprint Zero Output (including above) from Business

3). Execution Phase:

• Business/Client
• Attend Sprint Planning Meeting
• Attend Daily Stand-up Meeting
• Attend Sprint Review Meeting
• Resolve Impediments
• Approve Defect Deferral
• Attend Sprint Retrospectives
• Consulting Team - Offshore
• Conduct Sprint-Pre-Planning Meetings, Understand Requirements, Estimate User-Stories (LOE)
• Sprint Execution
• Create Detailed Design Documents
• Branching, Develop Code, Unit Testing & Code Review
• Create SQA Test Cases
• QA Deployment
• UAT Deployment
• CIRT Fixes, Code Merging etc
• Consulting Team - Onsite
• New Project
• Conduct Sprint Zero
• Existing Project
• Conduct Sprint Planning with Business
• Generate Next Sprint Requirements
• Generate User Stories,  Conduct Three-Amigo, Estimate User Stories (ROM), Update/Create Acceptance Test Cases
• Update High Level Design Document (if any)
• Conduct Design Review Meetings (if any)
• Update Project Roadmap (if required) based on LOE Estimations, Requirement 
• Review/Gain Approval -  Project Roadmap & Revised Capacity (If changed)
• Create Release Readiness Process
• Raise RFC
• Identify Impacted Components
• Identify Risk/Dependencies
• Create Test Plan
• Create Deployment Plan/Rollback Plan
• Conduct Sprint Review with Business
• Highlight/Remove Impediments
• Conduct Sprint Retrospectives
• Any MMF/Reprioritization
• Reports
• Executive Summary
• Weekly Status Reports
• Weekly Capacity Reports
• Create/Update Risk/Issues/Constraints/Assumptions/Dependencies

4). Deploy & Stabilize:

• Business/Client
• Provide Production Cut-Over Dates
• Business IT Validator Names
• Consulting Team - Offshore
• Update Release Readiness Process
• Create & Upload Release Notes/Artifacts 
• Submit RFC
• Perform IT Validation
• Consulting Team - Onsite
• Conduct Deployment Walkthru
• Support Deployment In UAT/Staging
• Perform IT Validation
• Facilitate UAT Testing
• Facilitate Defect Deferral
• Gain UAT Approval
• Get Business Sign-Off
• Facilitate Production Cut-over

5). Closure & Warranty Support:

• Business/Client
• Collect End-User Feedback
• Provide Project Retrospection Comments/Feedback
• Consulting Team - Offshore
• Create Handover Document
• Handover to L3 Support Team
• Provide Warranty Support
• Consulting Team - Onsite
• Conduct Project Retrospection
• Update Capacity Reservation
• Update/Close Project WorkOrder
• Conduct Project Retrospection
• Provide Warranty Support

Hope this helps!!

Arun Manglick