Comments on: Agile and Gantt chart : Agile Chronicles: Can Gantt Charts be Agile?

By: Jason Glover

Jason Glover — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:46:09 +0000

You are so right Thomas. Clients rarely care about velocity. They want to know that the project is going to be finished when you said it would be.

I’ve had an interesting experience lately helping a friend get a project back on track. The project is being implemented by a third part so I find myself dealing with a vendor who claims to be Agile, but realistically they come across as just cowboys.

I wish they’d used Team Effect (http://blog.teameffect.com/post/Team_Effect_equals_Agile_friendly_Gantt_charts.aspx) and then maybe things would have stayed on the rails.

I know it was a while ago since you were asking about Gantt charts and Agile projects but perhaps you still haven’t found anything that does the trick.

Regards

Jason

By: tmenguy

tmenguy — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 16:37:11 +0000

Not so bad after all: I can have a gantt view with some dates in my MS project to be reported to the program managers … it is where it is difficult to adopt agile: Program managers are accustomed to MS project/Waterfall project management, so Agile mean nothing to them cause, for me, it lacks something crucial : predictability. So having a Gantt view extracted automatically from an Agile Flow is a good thing for me….

By: Vladimir

Vladimir — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 16:03:20 +0000

Sounds interesting. What are your experiences with the export features?

By: tmenguy

tmenguy — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 14:30:28 +0000

Yes,
In fact we are using Xplanner for now with a mechanism to export automatically in MS project to have some date/deadline, etc… are you interested in this type of features?

Thomas

By: Vladimir

Vladimir — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 13:26:17 +0000

Hi, were you able to get more information on this? I have started a discussion thread on this topic in an xp user group: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xp-be/messages/493?threaded=1&m=e&var=1&tidx=1