Personal Project: EBER (2017 - 2020), Practical Magic Project Management
When I started planning my major, three year project (dubbed Early to Bed, Early to Rise — EBER) I knew it was important to immediately begin working on one or two of the goals. So I broke down part of the project into epics and then chose a couple of stories to...
Personal Project: EBER (2017 - 2020), Practical Magic Project Management
Since I’m in the middle of flushing out the EBER project, I wanted to explain how I’ve been using the bullet ephemeris for project planning and management. First, I created a main project page to capture the high level stuff: Sorry for all the blank space,...
Personal Project: EBER (2017 - 2020), Practical Magic Project Management
So, let’s talk a little bit more about the component parts of a major agile project like the EBER project. At the highest level, your project contains goals, plans, and deadlines. However, we now know more about how each of those things is handled.GoalsThe...
Personal Project: EBER (2017 - 2020), Practical Magic Project Management
One of the things that appealed to be most when I first learned about Agile was that they had epics and stories (and themes too, though I don’t usually work with those). Since I take a narrative-focused view of life and magic, it makes sense that these terms...
Personal Project: EBER (2017 - 2020), Practical Magic Project Management
OK, for those of you who work for a company, does your company have a mission statement? Do they have values? Do they articulate some annual or quarterly vision? (Quick Googling is allowed here).Odds are they do (this is what E-staff do on all those off-sites and...