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Agile project management Everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask…
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Agile principles
We were Agile
The pace of change and the value of being Agile
Being Agile at two levels:
– Agile Organisational Project management
– Being Agile in projects and programmes
Avoiding the pitfalls
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Does Agile Project Management……
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Core Principles of AgileHigh Level
Satisfy the customer - Produce outcomes that result in benefits – incrementally / regularly in order of priority
Value driven and time box where possible
Clear roles and responsibilities Enough definition to get started
Embrace changing requirements with robust change control
Sustainable environment for success
Empower the team to make rapid decisions
Collaborative behaviours based on Trust and quality communications
Simple keep it simple
Reflect, learn and adjust at regular intervals
‘Fail early’ if results disappoint
TIME
SCOPE
COST
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"Vercingetorix Throws Down His Arms at the Feet of Julius Caesar", 1899, by Lionel Noel Royer
They were Agile
http://www.whereprojectsthrive.uk/julius-caesars-agile-conquest-of-gaul-58-to-50bc/
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We were Agile Management created our Landscape
Co-located team including Users
Prioritised set of core requirements
Change reflected developing new business processes
Sustainability: already looking ahead to other services sustainable
Collaborative behaviours – US + BT IT teams + Users
Keep it simple – requirements groups for “sprints”
Weekly reviews / learnings
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Pace of Change and Agile
The rate of change is not going to slow down anytime soon. If anything, competition in most industries will probably speed up even more in the next few decades – John P. Kotter
Faster development and Change • Constant focus on the goal• Collaborative working• Flexibility• Delegated decision making
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The Value of Being Agile
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$95,000 per second
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
0.5%
http://www.whereprojectsthrive.uk/
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Organisational Agile Project Management
Being Agile: two levels
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Within projects and programmes
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Projects are viruses
Agile Organisational Project Management
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Agile Organisational Project ManagementA challenging landscape for Agile
Link to video: “I want to run an Agile project”:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u5N00ApR_k
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Agile Organisational ProjectManagementOrganisation Culture
VisionStrategy
TechnologyProcessPolicies
ValuesOrganisation
Rules
BehavioursSymbols
Relationships
Perceptions
Beliefs
Assumptions
Unwrittenrules
Common practice
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Agile Organisational ProjectManagement What needs to be overcome Non-agile organisation culture
– Lack of flexibility
– Non-release of operational resources
– Lengthy decision making, e.g. change
– Resistance to Matrix working
– Top down governance
– Lack of Trust and empowerment
– Very risk averse – loathing of uncertainty
Gathering organisational anti-bodies to anything new in the culture
And some people simply get it wrong……
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VisionStrategy
TechnologyProcessPolicies
ValuesOrganisation
Rules
Symbols
Relationships
Perceptions
Beliefs
Assumptions
Unwrittenrules
Common practice
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The real project landscape?
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Satisfy the customer
Welcome change
Regular successes – success as measure of progress
Operational and project people work as one team
Self organising teams
Build an environment around motivated individuals
Simplicity
Reflect, learn and adjust
Julius Caesar – Conquest of Gaul
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Agile Organisational ProjectManagement What an agile project landscape looks like
Eye on the PRIZE
Delegation toprojects Prioritised
portfolio
TRUST
Dashboard
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Programme: Agile culture
IT project: Agile culture & Sprints
Other projects: Serial approach
Agile Organisational ProjectManagement What an agile culture and environment looks like
“Waitbury’s”
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Being agile in projectsThe wreckage of agile projects
But we’re agile…….
Silver bullet or poisoned apple?
Agile as the wrong tool
Agile head, but not heart – no agile mindset
Self-organisation leads to constant escalation
Fear / lack of confidence / lack of delegation
Taking the eye of the ball
Embracing Change without a design authority
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Being agile in projectsAgile project management vs agile development
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Business Case
Prepare for Change
Stakeholder Manage
Integrationtest
Business implementation
Cutover
Release
Bed in
Muster programme
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Being agile in projectsAgile project management vs agile development
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Being agile at two- levels: projectsWhat an agile project looks like
An Agile Project Manager stands back…hands off
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Engagement
Purpose
Being agile at two- levels: projectsWhat an agile project looks like
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Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater
Re-combine and re-use
Avoiding the pitfalls:
Eric Abrahamson - Creative Recombination
people
networks (social not IT)
culture
processes
structure
Eric Abrahamson: Change Without Pain
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Kotter’s 8 Step change model
2. Build guiding teams
3. Get the vision right
4. Communication for buy-in
5. Enable action
6. Create short-term wins
7. Don’t let up
8.Make it stick
Create a Climate for change
Engaging and enabling the organisation
Implementing and sustaining change
Open Minds, Make the Change, Embed the Change
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Avoiding the pitfalls
Leadership must GET agile
Leadership to establish an agile friendly organisation
Persuade stakeholders so that they GET agile working
Define your goals for agile working
Determine how far agile needs to penetrate
Define who needs to be agile, and help them be so
Define how business processes need to change
Define what technology can help, and/or needs to change
Be an agile leader
People
ToolsProcess
Building an organisation fit for agile projects
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A two-day Agile Project Management course based on the APM Body of Knowledge is now available from Provek
Details can be found here:
http://www.provek.co.uk/Provek/Project-Management-Training/Agile-project-management/
Adrian Pyne:
m: 07767 822842
Agile Project Management training
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We were Agile
The pace of change and the value of being Agile
Being Agile at two levels
Agile Organisational Project management
Being Agile in projects and programmes
Avoiding the pitfalls
Content
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Paperback: 246x189mm, 2016 Publisher: APMAuthor: APM Governance Specific Interest Group ISBN 978-1-903494-60-8 Publication date: September 2016Price: £15.00Discount: 10% off for APM membersAPM members should contact Turpin Distribution on +44 (0)1767 604951 to receive their 10% discount
via APM Website
Where to get it
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1. Lead through inspiration, care and Trust
2. Open Minds, Make the Change, Embed the Change
3. Work with your environment
4. Understand what can stop you being successful
5. Know and communicate the purpose of the Change
6. Recombine and re-use
7. Prepare for delivery AND for operations.
8. Be flexible and adapt, e.g. plan, measure and adjust
9. Ensure people know what they are to do, where they fit and how they can work
10. Build a confident and professional team
Adrian’s Tactics for Change
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Linkshttp://www.whereprojectsthrive.uk/?s=adrian+pyne
http://www.apm.org.uk/blog/agile-thinking-projects-thinking-out-process-box
http://www.apm.org.uk/news/transformational-change-what-do-and-yellow-brick-road
I want to run an agile project parts 1 and 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u5N00ApR_k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAf3q13uUpE
Brian Wernhamhttp://www.amazon.com/Agile-Project-Management-Government-Wernham/dp/0957223404
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