the agile roadshow (brian wernham, adrian pyne & ann halloran) scot100915
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Ann Halloran Adrian Pyne Brian Wernham
The Agile Roadshow
APM Scottish Conference 10 September 2015
1. What does Agile look like at a project level?
(Pairs Exercise)
2. What landscape is needed and how can I build capability?
3. How can I convince my Stakeholders?
4. How do I address the barriers to Agile PM?
(Groups Exercise)
Content
The ‘Big Design Up Front’ is born…
The result…
Adapting to change is as difficult as swimming up a waterfall…
HOW IS AGILE PROJECT MANAGEMENT DIFFERENT?
Agile Project Management Principles
Source: DSDM Consortium
Diagram reproduced with the kind permission of the DSDM not-for-profit consortium
Traditional
Approach
Agile Project
Management Approach
MoSCoW Prioritisation
Design Build Test Deploy
Increment Increment Increment Increment
Traditional
Approach
Agile PM
Approach
Timeboxing
Diagram reproduced with the kind permission of the DSDM not-for-profit consortium
Diagram reproduced with the kind permission of the DSDM not-for-profit consortium
AgilePM Roles
Can you identify the Role Descriptions?
Pairs Exercise
1. What does Agile look like at a project level?
2. What landscape is needed and how can I build capability?
3. How can I convince my Stakeholders?
4. How do I address the barriers to Agile PM?
Content
Projects are Viruses
Vision
Strategy
Technology Process
Policies
Values Organisation
Rules
Behaviours
Symbols
Relationships
Perceptions
Beliefs Assumptions
Unwritten rules
Common practice
Organisation Culture
Vision
Value
Performance People
Practice
Capability Building Blocks
Building an Agile Capability
Open Minds
Capability components
Make the Change
Embed the Change
Tools
Process
People
1. What does Agile look like at a project level?
2. What landscape is needed and how can I build capability?
3. How can I convince my Stakeholders?
4. How do I address the barriers to Agile PM?
Content
FBI: The Need For Change
Project 1: Virtual Case File (VCF) 2002- 2005
- no delivery
- cancelled at $300m cost
Project 2: Sentinel 2006-2010
- no delivery
- cancelled at $400m cost
FBI Traditional Project Attempts…
Agile Project Management to the rescue!
Success at Last!
• Project 3: Agile • Modular
• 2011-13 incremental delivery
• $99m cost vs. $700m previously wasted
Creative Scotland
• £75m public funding for 49 arts projects
• Problem: • Project-based
grants starved smaller arts orgs
• Solution: • Regular Funding
Portfolio • Constant flow of £s
• High arts quality
Don’t be slaves to process!
Be Outcome Focused
Perceptions of desirable
outcomes change…
Innovative
projects using
Agile
Hybrid Programmes
(some Agile, some not Agile)
Traditional
Programmes
Can you use Agile with existing Project Management approaches?
1. What does Agile look like at a project level?
2. What landscape is needed and how can I build capability?
3. How can I convince my Stakeholders?
4. How do I address the barriers to Agile PM?
Content
I want to run an Agile Project!
The Holmes Partners
https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=4u5N00ApR_k
1. What does Agile look like at a project level?
2. What landscape is needed and how can I build capability?
3. How can I convince my Stakeholders?
4. How do I address the barriers to Agile PM?
Content
What are the barriers that might prevent an Agile way of working?
Group Exercise
Innovation is needed
Project is new
Forecasts are unreliable
Many options are possible
Requirements are unclear
Agile Project Management works when..
1. What does Agile look like at a project level?
2. What landscape is needed to support Agile PM?
3. How do I build an Agile PM capability?
4. How can I convince my Stakeholders?
5. How do I address the barriers to Agile PM?
Content
Contacts Adrian Pyne
M: +44 7767 822 842
Brian Wernham
M: + 44 7815 618 187
Ann Halloran
M: + 44 7908 454 767
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