Agile Lightweight Project Management with Google Docs

room: Grand Ballroom E — time: Tuesday 16:00-16:45
Level: Introductory

Using Google Docs you can create your own lightweight project management tools and through simple and powerful visual management provide the people involved with shared information that will give transparency into progress and problems

Compared to most commercial project management tools using Google Docs is very flexible. That way the tools can be adapted to how the processes of the project continuously improve. And not the other way around.

The demonstration is based on more than 2 years of experience using Google Docs for Agile processes in a distributed development context.

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Learning outcomes
  • Introduction to the power of visual management and creating participation through shared information. The Toyota concept of “mieruka”.
  • How online, collaborative document services like Google Docs used for Agile project management tools can support continuously improving processes
  • How project management tools created in Google Docs can be used in a distributed software development context
  • How you can get the project data from Google Docs out into the physical world and making it part of people’s daily work
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