BSG’s Principal Consultant, Sid Bwerinofa shared his expertise on “Moving to incremental, iterative approaches for enterprise programme/ project management” at the PMI conference on 1 September. This year PMI showcased Project Management in Developing Africa.

1. MOVING TO INCREMENTAL, ITERATIVE
APPROACHES FOR ENTERPRISE PROGRAMME
/ PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Sid Bwerinofa (PMP)
PMI AFRICA CONFERENCE 2015

2. WHAT WE WILL COVER
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Moving to incremental, iterative
approaches for enterprise programme
/ project management

3. WHY MOVE? – REASON 1

4. WHY MOVE? – REASON 2
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5. WHY MOVE? – REASON 3
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of companies had an IT project fail in the last 12
months. Business leaders who blame IT are missing the
real project management issues.
A recent study reports that

6. WHY MOVE? – REASON 4
Change negative perception of projects
Harness growth opportunities in Africa
Tailor to Africa’s difference
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7. I BUY IT, BUT HOW? – BE LEAN
Key Principles
 Adopt continuous
deployment/delivery
 Deliver only the minimum viable
product
 Use actionable metrics to
navigate by
 Don't quit - pivot
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8. PMI AFRICA CONFERENCE 2015
Feedback
Respect
Courage
Simplicity
Communication
I BUY IT, BUT HOW? – BE AGILE
Multi-functional teams over
silos
• Servant leadership
• T-shaped people
Value! Value! Value!
It’s about the customer,
stupid!
Hard conversations
• Good news merchants

9. OUR EXPERIENCE
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Consulting
for 20 years
Realised
that customers
demanded change
quicker
Went agile
– failed
Relooked
at change for
us and them
Went
agile again –
passed
Continue to tailor
approach to
match maturity of
organisations
Fail fast, succeed faster

10. PMI AFRICA CONFERENCE 2015
I BUY IT, BUT HOW? – BE AGILE
and anticipate that by 2018, more than
Gartner surveys indicate that
of projects today are agile
of projects will utilise agile
development
Gartner, Predicts 2015: Application Services Continue to Move Toward Business Outcomes and
Speed to Results Through Changes in Delivery Models, Twiggy Lo, Patrick J. Sullivan, Frances
Karamouzis, Alex Soejarto, Susanne Matson, Gilbert van der Heiden, Susan Tan, 18 November
2014

11. WHAT CAN YOU DO?
Identify your gaps
• Find a small project to
start with
– Customer facing
– Uncertain
requirements
– New technology
– Not core system
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 ADKAR
 Identify your product owner
 Agree what incremental looks like

12. A CHALLENGE
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YOU are the drivers
of Africa’s change
Be the change that you
want to see
Deliver change effectively
Forget moving, rather
move now

13. Contact us on www.bsg.co.za