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PM Responsibilities
Command and Control View
Inward Towards The Team
• Get the right resources
• Identify and manage risk
• Create a WBS
• Schedule the work
• Record progress information
• Monitor budget spend
• Manage issue resolution
• Identify necessary training
• Assign tasks and actions
• Incorporate change into plans
Outwards Towards Stakeholders
• Obtain plan approval
• Negotiate the budget
• Match resources and schedule
• Receive and manage change
• Report progress
• Report budget spend
• Escalate critical risks
• Escalate significant issues
• Meet management demands
• Deliver the project
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Collaborative
Self
Organizing
Empowered
Servant
Leader
Teams Take On Responsibilities
“Agilista” Popular Front Seizes Control
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PM Responsibilities
Responsibility becomes Accountability
Inward Towards The Team
• Get the right resources
• Identify and manage risk
• Create a WBS
• Schedule the work
• Record progress information
• Monitor budget spend
• Manage issue resolution
• Identify necessary training
• Assign tasks and actions
• Incorporate change into plans
Outwards Towards Stakeholders
• Obtain plan approval
• Negotiate the budget
• Match resources and schedule
• Receive and manage change
• Report progress
• Report budget spend
• Escalate critical risks
• Escalate significant issues
• Meet management demands
• Deliver the project
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• Get the right resources
• Identify and manage risk
• Create a WBS
• Schedule the work
• Record progress information
• Monitor budget spend
• Manage issue resolution
• Identify necessary training
• Assign tasks and actions
• Incorporate change into plans
Responsibility = Doing Work; Accountability = The Buck Stops Here
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The Organization is Not Agile
How to make the project fit?
The Project Manager carries
the responsibility for – actively
works to manage –the
relationships with other parts
of the organization. This is the
value-adding aspect of
Project Management.
Management is needed
because of the lack of
effective continuing
collaboration between parts of
the organization.
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Defining the Interface
Outward to Stakeholders, Inward to Team
Project Manager
• Outward looking responsibilities
• Inward looking accountabilities
• Appointed by stakeholders
• Static across the project
• Communicates
• Outward to Stakeholders
• Inward to Iteration Lead
• Should be a member of the
team
• Can’t collaborate if outside
Iteration Lead
• Inward looking responsibilities
• Appointed by the team
• Should change regularly
• Communicates
• Outward to Project Manager
• Outward to Product Owner
• Is a member of the team
• Collaborates as a team member
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Outward Accountability
Who Has Accountability for Delivery?
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Collaborative
Self
Organizing
Empowered
Servant
Leader
In the Agile world the
whole team has
accountability for
delivery
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Project Management Evolves
As the Organization Becomes More Agile…
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Increasing Agility
Adaptive Management Becomes Essential
Adaptive Management
§ Agile organization context
§ Continuing adaptation
§ People focused
§ Management set vision and
goals
§ Delivered by self-organizing
teams
§ Balance flexibility and rigour
§ Motivate staff
§ Increase discipline
§ Achieve high performance
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Talk about Culture
Leadership
(style, values, habits)
Strategy
(goals, success measures, rewards)
Structure
(roles/responsibilities, organisation)
Processes
(policies, operations, value chain, business processes)
People
(values, beliefs, attitudes, norms, habits)
Culture
Introduction to ICAgile – Ahmed Sidkey Feb 2014
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Talk about Culture
Leadership
(style, values, habits)
Strategy
(goals, success measures, rewards)
Structure
(roles/responsibilities, organisation)
Processes
(policies, operations, value chain, business processes)
People
(values, beliefs, attitudes, norms, habits)
Change
Culture
Introduction to ICAgile – Ahmed Sidkey Feb 2014
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Supporting the Agile transition
from a people perspective
Adopt coaching/mentoring/facilitating behaviours
• Role-model “agile behaviours” – be the servant leader
• Agile Behaviours - listening, questioning, clarifying, self
management, manage through others, power of teams
• Agile values & principles – model environments in which it is
safe to fail, safe to innovate, safe to be curious …
• Ensure clear guiding vision (both for Agile & projects)
• Support concept of slack
• Ensure necessary information is available
• Respect the team’s decisions whilst holding them
accountable for adopting Agile – let them loose within
the ‘strictures of agile’
• Be aware of knowledge worker’s motivation/drivers
intrinsic (autonomy, mastery, purpose) rather than
extrinsic
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Supporting the Agile transition
from an organisational perspective
• Address impediments
• Support functional managers to evolve into mentors &
developers of craft
• Centres of excellence, communities of practice etc
• Interact with PMOs and SLTs to address project metrics
• Make them agile friendly … over time J
• Exploit agile transparency and empiricism
• Interact with SLT & HR to evolve People management
• From assessing and monitoring tasks to continued value
delivery & supporting learning
• Individual measures move to emphasise those that support
team performance: supporting collaboration, info sharing,
developing t-shaped skills, self organising behaviours
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Summary
• Agile change is a real, positive change for Project
Managers
• Move to Agile forces PM role to evolve
• Less command and control
• More stakeholder management
• Driven by key Agile principles
• Collaboration
• Self-organization
• Empowerment
• Servant leadership
• Constrained by organizational relationships – so not for
all
• Help the move to Adaptive management
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