integrating agile in a waterfall world, a presentation from the PMI Global Congress, North America, 2011 To hear the audio go to whitewaterprojects.com

1. Integrating agile in a waterfall
world
TRN 31
Joseph Flahiff, CEO
PMP, CSSGB, CSP, CSM
Whitewater Projects, Inc.
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4. Abuse of Project Managers
“In the last 28 years, I have worked with
organizations around the world (South Africa,
New Zealand, Australia, USA, Hong Kong &
UK) in large and small businesses and
government. I can count on the fingers of one
hand the real Project Managers I've had the
privilege to work with.”
~ Shane Hastie <ShaneH@softed.com>
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6. Where are we going?
• Agile in What Context
• Mixed Planning
• Options
• The other 80%
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7. Agile in What Context?
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8. Project Management
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9. Product Management
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10. Triple constraint
Project Product
Management Development
On-going
Fixed set of
Scope features
prioritized list of
features
Start and multiple
Schedule end date releases
Budget Allocated once Cyclical
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12. Agile in an Enterprise
Enterprise
Sales Marketing Product
Customer
Service Information Technology
Platform Network Server Application
Services Operations Operations
Management
Application Production Application
support Support
development
Traditional
Project
Agile
Management group
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13. What do you do?
• Get Educated!
• Make your Team Aware
• Manage the product backlog as well as
the project backlog
• Look at the big picture
• Work for Evolution not Revolution
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14. Where are we going?
• Agile in What Context
• Mixed Planning
• Options
• The other 80%
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16. Two Basic Models
Iteration Based Feature / Release Based
Feature 1
Iteration Time Feature 1
boxes Epics
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17. Practical Application
Release 1
Release 2
Rel. 3
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18. Practical Application
Release 1
External
Dependency
Release 2
Rel. 3
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19. Practical Application
Release 1
External
milestone
Release 2
Rel. 2.1
Rel. 3
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20. Where are we going?
• Agile in What context
• Mixed Planning
• Options
• A Better Way
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22. Sequential (Waterfall)
Scoping Planning Build Test Deploy Close
Incremental
Scoping Planning Build Test Deploy Close
Iterative
Scoping Planning Build Test Deploy Feedback Close
Agile
Scoping Planning Build Test Deploy Feedback Close
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23. Problem Type Planning Question
Sequential Tame Upfront How
Incremental
What
Iterative
Agile Wicked Just in time Why
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24. Common Practices
eXtreme
Programming
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25. Lean/Kanban
• Evolutionary change
• Respects existing workflows
• Respects existing job functions
and roles
• Makes visible the current
workflow
• How?
1. Focus on Quality
2. Visualize the existing work flow
3. Limit Work-in-Progress
4. Measure and Improve
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27. Where are we going?
• Agile in What context
• Mixed Planning
• Options
• The other 80%
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28. Two sides of agile
Technical
practices
Agile
Management
Theory
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29. Coaching Agile Teams: Lyssa Adkins
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30. A Real Leader
“Help their teams be successful, the
‘bearers of water and removers of
boulders’, who have the backbone to
resist unreasonable demands, who
clearly explain the impact of
management decisions, who can
motivate the team to meet a crisis
deadline ONLY when it is really a crisis
and who otherwise understand the
importance of sustainable pace. They
fight the petty fights and protect their
teams from the dysfunction around
them.”
~ Shane Hastie <ShaneH@softed.com>
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31. What is Servant Leadership?
• Robert Greenleaf (1904-1990)
– “The servant-leader is servant first… It begins with
the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to
serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to
aspire to lead.”
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32. Q&A
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34. Contact Information
Joseph Flahiff
Joseph@josephflahiff.com
Tel: 888.831.9904
Direct: 206.276.1386
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