TeamPort Video Guides

  Model Building Steps - a walk through of a first project model and simulation

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• Steps 5 to 8
• Steps 9 to 12

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Start here! Begin a project model with a product, phase, team and 2 activities.

Learn how to create hierarchy amongst products, teams, and phases known as breakdown structures: PBS, WBS, and OBS

Learn how to add activities which represent scope towards the realization of products.

Learn how to allocate teams to activities through contracts, which represent various roles a team can play on an activity, such as primary, decision, quality, and assist roles (PDQA)

Learn now to add dependencies between activities. Dependence captures a need for something in an activity from another; a demand to interact. Sequence, such as finish to start, is one type of result of dependence, but not the only.  Dependence also drives communication and propagating rework.

Join in a challenge to re-arrange the visual layout and interpret a mystery project. Learn how visualizing a project helps to build mental models and improves ease of conveying what is essential about a project.

Further refine and expand your project model, and prepare it for simulation.

Given a project model, generate your first project forecast and plan using a simulator.

Let's take a look at another project which has some forecasts already generated. What can comparing forecasts tell us about the project?

Digging into the forecast, can we find insights about expected performance of teams? Which teams are waiting? Why?

Now that that we have insights from previous forecasts, let's try to make targeted changes to the project and test if they will improve performance.

As we wrap up these introductory videos, one last step is to share Design Walk, a third application in the TeamPort platform. The Design Walk app shows and compares the set of project models and forecasts, including a tradespace chart.