This document discusses project management as both an art and a science. It explores different approaches to project management including agile project management. It advocates for leadership-driven agile approaches and discusses techniques for managing teams and projects in an agile way, including using small, cross-functional teams, limiting work in progress, visualizing workflow, and emphasizing frequent communication over documentation.

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Agile Project Management
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23 II 2016
Spotkanie PMI Szczecin - RCIiTT
Michael Kacprzak

3. Art or Science?
Project Management ...

4. Art?

5. Good Project
Managers
GET
$H!T
DONE

6. Will you invoice the
customer this quarter?

7. Bad for the
greater good

8. Being good in business is the
most fascinating kind of art.
Making money is art and working
is art and good business is the
best art.
Andy Warhol

9. Science?

10. Science?

11. Art or Science?
Project Management ...

12. Both?

13. Soft or Hard?
Project Management ...

14. Theory or Practice?
Project Management ...

15. Praxis
Theory
ActionReflection

16. “Learning is the process
whereby knowledge is
created through the
transformation of
experience”
David Kolb

17. Leadership driven
Agile Project Management

18. The 5 Levels of Leadership – John C.
Maxwell

19. Where does passion come from?

22. Invest in the nervous system

23. Simplicity is the
ultimate
sophistication
- Leonardo Da Vinci

24. Make it simple...defrost & trust

25. 5 dysfunctions of a team

27. 12 months later

28. Environment
in the
trenches

29. Psychological

30. Physical

31. Meetings
in the
trenches

32. No agenda - no meeting

33. Use a timer

34. Stand up

35. Doodle …
take photos …
share with team.

36. No decision needed = no meeting

37. No decision = no report needed

38. Gather data for decisions, only.

39. Team
in the
trenches

40. Expose people to
consequences

41. Manage
by exception

42. Sometimes you win,
sometimes you learn.

43. 2 feet rule

44. Keep it flat

45. Empower people

46. Cross-functional
UX
Designer
BackendFrontend
PO
QA
UI
Marketing
Dev
Ops

48. Collocated
War room

49. Stop writing e-mails
Start talking to each
other

50. No overtime
Source: http://blogs.msdn.com

51. Small teams
are more
productive

52. Recruitment
You should
be your
head of
recruitment.
End of
story.

54. Recruit
your
weakness

55. Limit work
in progress

56. Manage the queue...
…visualize inventory.

57. Manage the queue...
… tell me what you want...

58. Flow

59. Is it possible to speak
about agile without saying
the word scrum?

60. We just did it :)

61. Right here, right now...
… evolution takes time.