Agile and Risk Management: How Agile Becomes Risky Business

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Agile & Risk Management:
How Agile Can Become Risky Business

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Moderator:
Corjan Bast
Marketing Manager, ITpreneurs
Presenter:
Christine Aykac
Program Manager, Agile & Risk Practitioner & Trainer

Agenda
About Agile (PMI-ACP)® & Risk Management (PMI-RMP)®
Position Agile & Risk Management Strategically
Benefits - Incorporating PMI Portfolio
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Questions & Answers

PMI’s Agile and Risk
Management

*
PMI Risk
Management
Professional
(PMI-RMP)®
PMI – Agile
Certified
Practitioner
(PMI-ACP)®
Project
Management
Professional
(PMP)®
ITpreneur’s PMI®Portfolio
639,023
2,966
6,987
Total PMI® Certification Holders as at Nov 30, 2014

Practitioners
● 12% are currently practicing Agile
● Majority feel that Agile PM certification would be:
○ Valuable (61%)
○ Useful (68%)
Organizations
● 30% are using Agile project management
● Majority feel that Agile PM certification would be:
○ Valuable (68%)
○ Useful (71%)
Why PMI® developed an Agile Certification?
Source: PMI and Agile: Evolution of Agile within PM Community – PMI 2012
PM
Agile

*
• Adaptive to changing business needs
• Early and continuous customer feedback
• Improve decision making process
• Better support to steer the project to success
• Early measurable ROI
• Incremental delivery
Why Organizations Implement Agile Project Management?

Why PMI® developed a Risk Certification?
Risk
Management
Specialist role
became more
important
Increase demand
for specialized
expertise
(complex projects)

Why Implement Project Risk Management?
Efficient
Use of
Resources
Improved
Service
Delivery
Risk-Informed
Decisions Increased
project
success
Reduced
Change
Requests

Position Agile & Risk
Management
Strategically

Challenges with the Traditional Methods!
No time to
fix the
errors
Difficult to go
back
Requirements
are not clear
Difficult to
design up
front
Customers’
Ignorance
Scope creep
Incomplete
Requirements

Agile Project Management

Agile Project Management
• Acceptance of unpredictability
• Adjustment to reality
• Minimal bureaucracy; follows principles
• Activity driven
• Design & Plan as needed
• Iterative and incremental
• Flat, lean structure
• Small, empowered teams
• Just enough focus
• Quick to respond to change

Servant Leadership
Team work & Collaboration
Open to Change / Acceptance
Adaptive Planning
Continues Improvement
Is Agile Risky? Only if you don’t change…

• Managing projects based on Agile principles reduces risk:
- Start with what you know; Do NOT spend more time planning what you
do NOT know
- Put emphasis on working products over comprehensive documentation
- Value Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
- Respond to change instead of rigidly following a plan
Is Agile Risky? Only if you don’t change…

Agile and Risk Management training
programs;
■ Applicable to all organization types &
sizes
■ Do NOT require technical knowledge &
skills to participate
■ When Agile practices are applied to Risk
Management processes, it provides long-
term benefits for organizations
Can you blend Agile and Risk Management?

Benefits of Educated Project Teams
• More cost effective
• Less turn over
• Higher success rate
• Team manages Risk more efficiently by applying
Agile principles

TOGAF & Information Security
How to combine Agile, Risk, TOGAF & Information Security
They are inseparable:
• Agile teaches how to create a value within each delivery
• TOGAF teaches how to design, plan, implement and govern
• Risk teaches how to identify and manage unknowns
• Information Security teaches how to make it secure
Not everyone needs certification; Resources should be specialized on
certain areas, but should be aware of the others!

Benefits

PMI Agile & Risk Trainings
• Agile training addresses the prime needs of the organization to:
➢ Increase success of delivery
➢ Adapt more quickly to business changes
➢ Take a more value- and people-driven approach to projects
➢ Involve and meet customer needs
• Risk management training brings a culture in the organization to:
➢ Make better decisions by forecasting important threats and opportunities
➢ Save on Cost and Time by being prepared for the unknown
➢ Review risk treatment plans to underpin a successful business strategy
➢ Gain operational efficiencies and profitability by successful treatment of risks

Business challenges, complex impediments and underlying issues that
prevent Customer from delivering innovative, quality products a.k.a.
PAIN POINTS, such as:
■ Projects always extend beyond delivery dates
■ Adding resources is a usual practice
■ Customer complaints increase with time
■ No-one is really sure which features will be used
■ Team constantly chase mysterious requirements
■ “Change Management” becomes the key focus
Golden Rules – PAIN POINTS

Interact with the key decision makers and ask:
○ What is their project success rate?
○ What type of challenges they are having? Behind schedule, over budget, …
○ What is the resource turn over rate?
○ Does the Project Managers actually have decision making authority?
○ Are there policies and rules requiring too many permissions?
Golden Rules

■ Integrate these trainings with consulting engagement;
● Team and project-level Agile adoption is instrumental to improving
delivery performance
● Agile implementation and coaching strategy should stretch across the
organization
● Providing coaching ensures support, mentorship and common
understanding
■ Initiate further training based on their need
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Value Proposition for Partners

PMI - Registered Education Providers (R.E.P.)
• PMI R.E.P.s can offer PMI’s exam preparation trainings
• PMI R.E.P.s can issue professional development units (PDUs)
• Since ITP is a REP – you can deliver accredited courseware
ITPRENEURS is PMI approved R.E.P.
(R.E.P. Provider ID is 2690)

➢ Material can be used as reference material for
anyone who is managing or taking part in a project.
➢ PMI-ACP® course is designed to help participants
prepare for the PMI-ACP® exam.
➢ To be eligible for the PMI-ACP® certification, applicant
must meet the educational and professional
experience requirements.
This course fulfils the education requirements.
PMI-ACP®
3 Days
21 Contact hours
/PDUs
Exam Name:
PMI Agile
Certified
Practitioner
PMI-ACP®Exam Preparation Course

➢ Material can be used as reference material for
anyone who is a decision maker or participates in
making decisions.
➢ PMI-RMP® course is designed to help participants
prepare for the PMI-RMP® exam.
➢ To be eligible for the PMI-RMP® certification,
applicant must meet the educational and professional
experience requirements.
This course fulfils the education requirements.
PMI-RMP®
3 Days
30 Contact hours
/PDUs
Exam Name:
PMI Risk
Management
Professional
PMI-RMP®Exam Preparation Course

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Partner
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Partner
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Courseware Exams Services Trainers
Courseware Exams Services
Courseware Exams

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Q&A

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1. Who should pursue this certification?
2. What is the difference between Scrum
Master and Agile Certified Practitioner?
3. What are the benefits of having PMI-ACP
certification if you have PMP?
4. Why Project Managers should attend this
course?
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