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Agile management with ITPP

SmidigDig 2016

Kjetil Strand, Promis AS

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What is ITPP?

• ITPP = IT Project Professional

• A certification programme in agile management

• Organized by the Norwegian companies Metier AS and

Promis AS, in cooperation with former and current SIMULA

researchers

• Introduction in spring, 2012

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All use of this document should be

followed with reference to Promis AS

and/or the authors

Agile Contractingand Execution

ITPP = PRINCE2® + ACE

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3 sound principles in PRINCE2®

• Continued business justification

• Focus on products

• Learn from experience

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• Agile from the Customer’s perspective

• Value Breakdown Structure

• Remove waste – create flow

• Quality assurance – the Control Gate

• Agile contracting

• Scaling agile

• Based on experience and best

practises

ACE – specific features

In short: ITPP gives

power to PRINCE2® !

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Agile from the Customer’s

perspective

• Benefits and cost budgeting

• Benefits and cost management

• Owner governance

• Real Product Ownership

• Enterprise Architecture compliance

• Control Gate for each iteration

• Risk sharing with the suppliers

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The Pareto principle

80% of the effects

come from 20% of

the causes 0

5

10

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Accumulated benefits

Accumulated benefits

0

80% of the benefits

50% of cost budget

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Value Breakdown Structure

Story level

Epic level

Effect goals (quantifiedoutcomes)

Business Case

Benefits

Cost

Timescale

Uncertainty

Effect goals 1..n

Epic 1

Story 1 Story 2 Story 3

Epic 2

Story 4

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3 views on software initiatives

Work Product Value

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Epic

Both story points and benefit points

Story points

Benefit points

• Benefit points

• Re-use elements from Planning Poker

– Group sessions

– The Fibonacci sequence

Story

Story points

Benefit points

Story

Story points

Benefit points

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Quantifying the relative benefit of epics

with respect to each effect goal

• Business experts quantify relative benefit using «benefit points» (0,1, 2,

3, 5, 8, 13, 20, 40, 100)

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Using group sessions..... to fill the epic/effect goal matrix

60MNOKProcessing time per received application reduced by 50%

40MAccuracy in fraud detection increased by 50%

Calculated weighted average

Epic 1 3 8 5

Epic 2 1 8 3,8

Epic 3 8 5 6,8

Epic 4 20 2 12,8

... ... ... ...

Epic n 13 13 13

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Service development in the public domain

Sprints

Sco

pe

Team leadsStakeholders

Product Owner

Pro

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ct

Ba

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g

Cross functional

teams

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Continuous prioritizaton

New user story

Prioritization

Estimation

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et

Priorite

t

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Continuous prioritizaton

New user story

Prioritization

Estimation

Bu

dg

et

Priorite

t

3

2

1

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ITPP – status per mid 2016

• 250 persons have been certified since the introduction in

spring 2012

• All large consultancy companies in Norway are

represented, and most of the public agencies

• Online version in English launched in 2015

• www.smidigeprosjekter.no

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ITPP online

Workshops are replaced by

presentations and self study of

the book «Agile Contracting and

Execution»

Online version available

in English only

All use of this document should be

followed with reference to Promis AS

and/or the authors

Agile Contractingand Execution