OSPMI May 2020 Virtual Chapter Meeting
Who Says You Can’t Plan Agile in Microsoft Project?
byJohn Riopel
While many organizations are adopting agile for all or some of their project portfolio, business leaders still struggle with how to maintain overall planning capabilities for these projects. The inherent flexibility of Agile Project Management often conflicts with other management needs such as critical path, resource management, and other traditional project management techniques.
So how can you deliver critical forecasting data needed at the enterprise level while maintaining the flexibility needed to run an Agile methodology? Join us to better understand Agile and Traditional project management concepts, terminology, and how competing business needs can be met using each of these forecasting techniques and how to use Microsoft Project to support both.
John Riopel has been managing projects since before computers became the mainstay of managing schedule information. John started a career in project management on the Extra Low Frequency (ELF) program for GTE Government Systems, working on microelectronics for the ELF radio’s. This progressed to becoming program manager for the Wire and Cable Services (WACS) program delivering fiber optics network infrastructure for Cape Canaveral and the Supreme Court among others. Now he is a project management consultant at his own company PM Providers which is a Microsoft Silver Partner and Project Management Institute (PMI) Register Education Provider (REP). He presents and records courses on project management, Microsoft Project and Project Online/Project Server for LinkedIn Learning and speaks at PMI Global and Chapter meetings, and many other project management events across the country. John holds a Project Management Professional (PMP) ® certification from the Project Management Institute, awarded Community Leader for the Microsoft Project User Group, a Microsoft Certified Technical Specialist (MCTS), and Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) from Microsoft in Enterprise Project and Portfolio Management. He does extensive consulting for government and commercial customers providing coaching, training, and/or managing their projects. You can learn more at his website, www.pm-providers.com, twitter #JARPM, or email him at jriopel@pm-providers.com.
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