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The Project Strategy & Design logo, containing a set of three gears.

Who Are We?

The Project Strategy & Design office is the point of contact for all projects in ASU Enterprise Technology. We establish standardization across tools, processes and procedures to ensure projects are managed consistently and efficiently by our team of Project Managers, to successfully meet goals. We strive for visibility and transparency in order to facilitate prioritization and business values.

Our highly-skilled IT Project Managers:

⚙ Take a vision and coordinate the work to make it real

⚙ Provide expertise in planning, executing, and delivering IT projects and initiatives.

⚙ Stay nimble among changing priorities and establish successful relationships with project teams, sponsors, and stakeholders.

⚙ Help remove project roadblocks, identify risks, manage scope, and provide timely status updates to leadership.

⚙ Unite Subject Matter Experts (SME) across ASU to successfully achieve goals.

How Do We Function?

Our Enterprise Technology leadership principles embrace an “agile-first” mindset. We strive to manage all projects using this agile method.

The agile manifesto outlines 12 principles: satisfying the customer, welcoming changing requirements, delivering working software frequently, collaborating daily, cultivating individual motivation, facilitating face to face conversation, measuring progress through working projects, promoting sustainable development, offering continuous attention to technical excellence, understanding that simplicity is essential, producing self-organizing teams, and regularly reflecting on continuous improvements.
The iterative process to project management: testing, developing, planning, designing, and finally, deployment.

Agile project management uses an iterative approach of delivering value through multiple releases—with each release evaluated to verify the project is on the right track.

Project work is diffused into manageable pieces, focused on consistent value delivery and continuous improvement.

We manage our work using Scrum, a subset of Agile. Scrum teams typically consist of cross-functional experts such as software developers, QA testers, business analysts, security specialists, product owners, and a Scrum master. They work together to plan, prioritize, and release products across timeboxed periods, known as sprints. Scrum events are facilitated by the Scrum Master.

Planning, implementation, review, and retrospect are the four steps to scrum planning and implementation. At each step, teams will progress through four actions: facilitating sprint planning meetings, daily scrums, sprint review meetings, and sprint retrospective meetings.

Scrum encourages collaboration, transparency, and commitment to value delivery and customer satisfaction.