This video provides a high level overview of Microsoft Project Server 2010 and focuses in on Project Visibility and Reporting. This area is a major pain point for many organisations and in this video we see how organisations can enhance their project reporting and increase project visibility.

Did you ever experience the phenomenon were the project status is red but getting greener and greener when climbing to the to top of the management ladder? This is named “Watermelon reporting”. This video explains the main reasons for this behavior and gives the right tools to fight messy reporting processes. You will learn practical tools and ideas that can be used to get rid of or at least minimize dysfunctional reporting behavior in your own teams and company.

Most of us work in software project teams, but we rarely use metrics to identify strengths and weaknesses, set and track goals, or evaluate strategies. This video gives examples of specific metrics and techniques to help you identify, analyze, and discuss the successes and failures of your software engineers and to help make the team a more cohesive and productive. If you manage or lead teams of software developers and engineers, and want to make sure that your focus is on success, you can’t afford to miss this entertaining and …

The Showcase is the moment where to demonstrate the completed iteration features to the product owner and stakeholders, solicit feedback and present an inspect-and-adapt opportunity for course correction.

This video explains basic patterns and introduces dozens of original ideas for building great taskboards and visually managing your work and that of your teams. You will learn what makes a great taskboard and how to really use one effectively, patterns of taskboard design: Scrum boards, XP boards, Kanban boards and more; tips, tricks and original ideas to easily improve every taskboard; how to build taskboards for scaling Scrum and managing large projects; how to choose an electronic taskboard tool for working with distributed teams.
http://oredev.org/2010/sessions/visual-management-for-agile-teams