Benefit: Orchestration
Most projects have multiple streams of activity running at once. Effective project teams are good at coordinating and leading, or orchestrating, these multiple activities, so that the all do their part to move the project forward.
ProjectPipe aids in the Orchestration process by:
- Making each stream of activity as simple and transparent as possible
- Making it easy to identify concepts and activities that cut across multiple activity streams
By fostering transparency and crosscutting, ProjectPipe helps project managers or other leaders see patterns and commonalities across the discrete activity streams that they are managing. For example, by having a number of use cases, issues, and requirements Tagged as "Not likely for next release" by the implementation team, the Project Manager can get out in front of the communications issues that this poses sooner rather than later.
Most importantly, however, is that ProjectPipe allows the implementation team to easily distill the underlying technical details into the useful information that is actionable the Project Manager's world.
How does ProjectPipe improve project Orchestration?
- Workflow: Enforce lightweight business process management for ongoing project activity
- Tagging: Allow the members of the project team to categorize and label items using a vocablulary that makes sense to the project team. Plus, since Tags crosscut the various types of data (Requirements, Issues, Tasks, etc.), it is trivial to identify commonalities across the various buckets of project data
- Dependency Management: Easily establish links and visualize dependencies across your project
Who Lives for Orchestration?
- The Project Manager who needs to juggle a number of risk management, communications, and delivery-related responsibilities.
Team members can Tag items that need the Project Manager's attention, who can then subscribe to a list of escalated items via RSS. - The Team Lead who needs to make sure that their piece of the puzzle fits in well with that of their peers in the overall big picture.
ProjectPipe makes it easy to track Dependencies among any data items, and quickly generate diagrams to depict relationships that are not always obvious.
Orchestration-driven Features
ProjectPipe has a number of features that aid project leadership in coordinating and managing multiple streams of activity: