Project Management

~ Aaron Douglas, sometime this week I've been a team lead for a couple years now at Automattic - a little over a year of that with the larger team (Go Slytherin!!). I've made several discoveries of what being a lead (team, project, technical) means. I've realized one thing I have to do is to put myself into a higher state of awareness and embrace fears. AwarenessLeads have to see the business landscape with different eyes. My main goal as a team and project lead is to unblock the pathways for my teammates to succeed. I'm required to involve myself in conversations that are out-of-band from what the team is connected to. These conversations get summarized in my head and become part of discussions with project leads and individual 1:1 meetings. I have to pick out the important things that relate to the team and bring that into conversations to establish insight amongst everyone. ...

I'm currently using Scrum in my school capstone project. The advisor, however, designed the deliverables around the Unified Process and still expects some things like a Software Project Management Plan (SPMP). While it's a little late in the game, I've decided to fill one out and hope that maybe it'll help weed out some requirements I didn't document well in my backlogs. First task - find a template. An SPMP is usually based off of IEEE's standard 1058-1998, which costs more than a hundred dollars to get a copy of. I'm not paying $100+ to get a 200KB document. I've seen example around the Internet of a SPMP but nothing that was formatted well in Word or handled copying and pasting into Word. I spent some time doing more digging and found this wonderful site - ...