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Wireless project management is a dynamic and complex field that requires constant adaptation to changing customer needs, market trends, and technological innovations. How can you ensure that your wireless projects are agile and responsive, delivering value and quality to your clients and stakeholders? In this article, we will explore some of the best practices and tools that can help you achieve this goal.
One of the key aspects of agile project management is to embrace change and feedback, rather than following a rigid and predefined plan. Agile methodologies, such as Scrum, Kanban, or Lean, can help you organize your wireless projects into manageable and iterative cycles, where you can deliver working products or services, test them, and improve them based on customer input. Agile methodologies also promote collaboration and communication among your project team, as well as with your clients and end-users, ensuring that everyone is aligned and informed.
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Ravikiran Bhilare
Senior Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
I have been working on actual scrum for majority of my experience with teams across the globe, what I have observed is that people say they follow scrum but not everyone does. When we say we follow scrum we have to follow all the scrum ceremonies judicially. I would like to highlight few situations where most of the teams get it wrong. 1) Stand up call really means a short status call, most of the time people extend it endlessly (its wrong) 2) Scrum team should be small in size, it also means a well thought of team, where everyone in the team is closely collaborative, a big size scrum doesn't succeed, it should be broken down into smaller teams. 3) Ceremonies like, retrospective, backlog grooming, release planning needs to be conducted.
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Another way to make your wireless project management agile and responsive is to leverage the power of cloud-based tools and platforms. Cloud computing can offer you many benefits, such as scalability, flexibility, security, and cost-effectiveness. You can use cloud-based tools to manage your project tasks, documents, resources, budgets, risks, and issues, as well as to communicate and collaborate with your team members and clients. Some of the popular cloud-based tools for wireless project management include Asana, Trello, Smartsheet, Slack, and Zoom.
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Ravikiran Bhilare
Senior Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
I have used Jira, Trello, Slack, Microsoft planner etc. When working with team scattered across the globe I identified that the projects which follow standardized practice to update the above management tools in time advance a lot. Maintaining a correct status of the project on these management tools helps the org understand a lot of aspects which help to improve the process. The updated status on such tools can reduce a lot of overheads which can reduce the overall product cost.
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Wireless project management often involves a lot of repetitive and manual tasks, such as data entry, reporting, testing, and deployment. These tasks can consume a lot of time and resources, as well as introduce errors and delays. To make your wireless project management agile and responsive, you can automate and integrate these tasks using various software tools and applications. For example, you can use automation tools like Zapier, IFTTT, or Microsoft Power Automate to connect different cloud-based tools and create workflows that trigger actions based on certain events or conditions. You can also use integration tools like MuleSoft, Dell Boomi, or Jitterbit to connect different wireless systems and devices and enable data exchange and synchronization.
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Ravikiran Bhilare
Senior Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Since I have worked on many enterprise applications over years, I have identified one core thing which contributes to the success of large projects, that is, having a strong Automation Testing control on your project. With Agile we tend to keep on adding feature to our release every sprint, and if you have automations tests updated and running all the times, helps to deliver the best outcome from the team. All well covered Testing automation suite makes sure that the product is always delivered without any major hick-ups. Taking it further a CI/CD after every checking adds a extra layer of automation to every step of your development. Development done using TDD approach adds a minute level of Accuracy in your application.
Finally, to make your wireless project management agile and responsive, you need to monitor and optimize your project performance and outcomes. You can use various metrics and indicators to measure how well your wireless projects are meeting your customer needs, quality standards, and business objectives. You can also use various tools and techniques to analyze and visualize your project data and identify trends, patterns, and insights. Some of the tools and techniques you can use include dashboards, charts, graphs, KPIs, OKRs, and SWOT analysis. By monitoring and optimizing your wireless project management, you can ensure that you are delivering value and satisfaction to your customers and stakeholders, as well as improving your own skills and processes.
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Ravikiran Bhilare
Senior Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
I have worked on Projects which could impact lacs of the users at any given point in time. I think every project should have some mechanism to analyze the logs. In most of my projects I try to come up with a utility which could analyze the logs and generate a summary based on the logs. Summary was helpful to us in understanding our client's needs, what we are doing very well, what we are not addressing, what we need to improve, overall revenue impact to the client etc. Having such tools really helps you to upsell your solutions and prepare you to innovate in order to get more clients. Always remember the client should never come to us with a problem, if we have strong tools in place, we can provide solutions before we are asked for one.
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Nasr Ullah Mahar
CTO | Tech Entrepreneur | Researcher
To make wireless project management agile and responsive to changing customer needs: Engage in regular customer communication and feedback. Form cross-functional teams. Choose an Agile framework. Break projects into smaller, prioritized increments. Embrace change and adapt to evolving requirements. Involve customers in the development process. Use Agile project management tools. Prioritize quality assurance and performance testing. Maintain clear and open communication. Continuously learn and improve processes.
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Diego De Sogos
Engineering Manager at Hexacta
I don't get what's the point with the article's main topic and all practices and tools recommended on this section and the others. When you start reading The article seems to address a very specific needs of a Wireless PM, although when you continue reading, you just find an enumeration of standard practices for agile project management in general. If it is intended to be so broad, I would suggest changing title and/or main topic.