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10.5 Report Performance The process of collecting and distributing performance information, including status reports, progress measurements, and forecasts. Simple Version: gather and make project information easily available to people. |
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Inputs Project management plan Work performance information Work performance measurements Budget forecasts Organizational process assets Tools and Techniques Variance analysis Forecasting methods Communication methods Reporting systems Outputs Performance reports Organizational process assets updates Change requests |
Inputs Project management plan / Release/Iteration plans Work performance information Work performance measurements / Velocity and Defect metrics Budget forecasts Organizational process assets Tools and Techniques Variance analysis Forecasting methods Communication methods Reporting systems Outputs Performance reports Big Visible Charts Organizational process assets updates Change requests / Backlog Updates Good metrics are simple and relevant to the goal, they should fall-out of the process and not be onerous to produce. Value based metrics such as stories developed (and tested) compared to stories remaining meet the criteria of simple and relevant. The evolving product is the primary measure of progress. Look at what has been built and tested! This is where we are in the project, missing functionality is what we need to still complete, directed by the business prioritization of features in the backlog. Agile reporting tools such as cumulative flow diagrams, burn up/down graphs, parking lot diagrams, QA stats, etc also play a role in explaining important project information. |
Leading a Team That’s Part Machine: 5) AI Agent Impacts on Project Management
This is the 5th and last installment in my series about Leading a Team that’s Part Machine. The earlier articles are available here: Introduction to the series and why the future will likely include hybrid human / AI teams What constitutes a real agent and how most current ‘agents’ lack the agency to act Agent frameworks, API tokens and local AI: the infrastructure that runs agents Agentic pipelines and orchestration: getting agents to do meaningful work beyond what GenAI tools can do for us today This article explores how to integrate AI Agents into regular teamwork and their likely impacts on the future of project management. To recap, I started my experiment by building AI agents 6 months ago to
