Antonio Cobo's High Load Strategy conference 2016 talk on project managers and their stages from early days till now with the DevOps movement changing IT organisations.
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The DevOps movement is gradually changing IT organisations
Project managers are often forgotten
Are project managers ready for DevOps?
6. Who am I?
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Antonio Cobo - @Mind_of_AC
→ Agile Delivery Consultant at OpenCredo
Agile, architecture, CI/CD, DevOps
Delivering business outcomes via the application of emerging technology
7. Latest projects
UK Government company - Secure cloud platform using multiple cloud providers
International Investment Management company - Secure cloud platform using public cloud providers
Global Information Services company - Secure Container Platform for their product
Different industries - Similar goals and challenges
Hoping to deliver products to customers faster
Hoping to reduce the cost & time developing and delivering products
Hoping to update monolithic applications for the Cloud
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8. Agenda
1. Project Management Archaeology: Stone Age
2. Project Management Archaeology: Renaissance
3. Project Management in the DevOps Era
4. Wrapping up
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11. Project managers in the Stone Age
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Gannt charts
Planning
Prioritising tasks
Assigning tasks
Generating reports
12. Project manager - Developer interaction
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Conversation rather than argument (or not even listening)
Willing to work with the Devs rather than giving tasks without understanding
Searching to improve rather than blaming others for issues
Team culture rather than going home leaving the Devs working
13. Project manager - Developer interaction
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Conversation rather than argument (or not even listening)
Willing to work with the Devs rather than giving tasks without understanding
Searching to improve rather than blaming others for issues
Team culture rather than going home leaving the Devs working
23. Estimating better
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Cost control: is the benefit of the project out-weighting its cost?
Gain the confidence of the sponsors
Ensure there is a common understanding of what is needed
Scope trade off
28. Project managers in the DevOps Era
Nurturing continuous improvement mindset
Raise awareness of risks
Facilitate coordination between the different teams to mitigate the risks
Advocating CI/CD culture for better impediment removal
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29. Project managers in the DevOps Era
Facilitate communication: within the team and outside the team
Make sure the sponsor's time is used in the best way
Bridging communication between the sponsor and the team
Team culture, why? Because the project manager is now PART OF THE TEAM!
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Thank you for listening!
Thanks to all the @OpenCredo team for inspiration
Thanks to @dainiuskniuksta for continuous feedback