hybrid project management - combining the best of standard, agile, and gtd to gsd

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Combining the Best of Standard, Agile, and GTD to GSD

Hybrid Project Management

What do we do?

Streamline, Organize & Unify

Business Information

What’s the Goal?

• PeopleWith people around the world in different teams, remote, part time, full time, etc. we need to be nimble enough to work with everyone.

• ProcessesProcesses are being executed across time zones and companies to make things happen.

Hybrid - Needed in a Modern World

• InformationKnowledge, data, information, records are all across different Systems especially with SaaS growth.

• SystemsSystems in the cloud, in the data center, in the mobile device are across networks and companies.

• Why Care So Much About This?A story of why I care about personal and organizational productivity and effectiveness.

• SDLC - Initial Requirements & SpecificationsWhy wander in the wilderness? Set a direction first. Then iterate forward. You may change, but you need to think before you do.

• Agile - Cycles of Continuous Improvement.A framework is a framework. Take what works. Leave the rest. I like having clarity on Stories w/ Releases & Sprints + Constraints

• GTD - Mind Like WaterHow to handle the day to day challenges of everything.

Agenda

• Time is LifeTime is life. It is not money. It is related to money. Time is life because it contains your experiences from birth to death.

• Faith on Focus It is your choice to focus and stay committed. Individually and organizationally.

• Priorities & ImprovementNot everything is important, right now. You can’t have 10 priorities and be effective. You can’t improve 10 things at once.

Story - Why Care About Productivity?

• Clarity is the key to success.Bad Description / Acceptance criteria wastes everyone’s time.

• An outcome should be researched. Sometimes user outcomes require Research, Requirements, Specifications, Design.

• Waterfall’s Requirements Specifications & DesignSometimes you have to “think” before you “do.”

Waterfall - Why is still relevant?

• Need to do Sequencing GloballyWe have team members around the world. Different companies, time zones, skills

• Three Amigos Assess with ClientsThey can understand, elaborate the need and package “Assessment” that a client can understand.

• Team(s) Iterate ImplementationsAssessment to Acceptance takes a similar amount of time but with more clarity.

Waterfall for Modern Enterprise

• Results to CustomerAgile works because of the focus on delivering to the customer.

• Iterations mean FeedbackMarkets, Industries, Projects all work as systems with feedback mechanisms. That’s why agile works for projects. It reflects the real world.

• Works if you have done it before.Agile works really well if it’s not your first rodeo. It depends on the team’s experience.

Agile - Why does it work?

• Really a Scrum of ScrumsFor a Client, Amigos are managing several mini projects and they Scrum with Clients.

• Some Feedback is BackloggedClients don’t have unlimited revenue / resources. Sometimes there is a skill gap.

• Same Release / Sprint LengthsTo keep it sane. Releases (Month, Quarter Year). Sprints (One or Two Weeks).

Agile for Modern Enterprise

• Product vs. ServiceOur products are impacted by some service tickets, but not all.

• Anant vs. Client (Service)Everything is in some sort of a project. It may not be an Agile project, but it is a GTD project.

• Personal ProductivityThe team is only as effective as each person’s own productivity.

GTD - Mind Like Water

• InboxesEmail. Drive. DropBox. Workflowy. ZenDesk. Phone Call. Text.

• ReferenceDelta. Drive. DropBox. Evernote. Workflowy.

• CalendarGoogle Calendar.

GTD - Mind Like Water

• ActionsDelta. RTM

• ProjectsDelta. Evernote.

• SomedayTrello. Evernote. Workflowy

• Containers • Inbox • Next Actions• Sprint X (R1)• Month Y• Week Z• Backlog

Hybrid - What a Project Looks Like

• Tasks• P&D - Planning &

Discovery• D&A - Design &

Architecture• D&D - Development

& Delivery • L&M - Launch &

Maintenance

Rahul Singh - My GTD System

Knowledge• Good to Great

• Getting Things Done

• Focus

• The ONE Thing

• Zen to Done

• Differentiate or Die

• Making Ideas Happen

• Managing your Day to Day

More Knowledge• First Things First

• Google “Kanban”

• Google “Kaizen”

• Google “Agile”

• Lean Startup Method

• Toyota Way

• Four Steps to the Epiphany

Educate and Empower

What …• Worked?

• Didn’t Work?

• Could be Improved?

What should I ..• Start doing?

• Stop doing?

• Continue doing?

Feedback - Kaizen

Questions & Contact


@anantcorp

facebook.com/anantCorp

linkedin.com/company/anant

[email protected]/in/xingh

Rahul SinghCEO & Founder

Questions & Contact

• Modern Enterprise• Mastering Services in the Service of Others• Hybrid Agile Project Management• Building Search Engines• CICD / DevOps• Connecting Internet Software


Streamlined DataIntegration / Data Pipelines

Organized KnowledgeSearch / Data Warehouses

Unified InterfacesPortals / Dashboards / Mobile

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