Why Agile and what is Agile. Moreover how does the role of Project Manager fit into a Agile environment

1. The Role of Project Managers in Agile
Darren Wilmshurst ACIB CITP MBCS
@dazzawilmshurst
http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/darren-wilmshurst/1/93/89b/

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My experience

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Your experience with Agility
1 = Very Little Experience/No Experience
2 = Some Experience
3 = Experienced
4 = Very Experienced
5 = Expert

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We believe in challenging the status quo and in the
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Why agile?
Source: https://www.startwithwhy.com/

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Where is you pain?

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Mindset
Values
Principles
Practices
Tools &
Processes
We use
JIRA
We do
stand-ups
We are
co-located
We do just enough
documentation
We work
together
What is agile?

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Agile manifesto
Mindset
Values
Principles
Practices
Tools &
Processes
Source: http://agilemanifesto.org

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12 Principles of the Agile Manifesto
1. Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early
and continuous delivery of business value.
2. Welcome changing requirements, even late in development.
Agile processes harness change for the customer's
competitive advantage.
3. Deliver business value frequently, from a couple of weeks to a
couple of months, with a preference to the shorter timescale.
4. Business people and developers must work together daily
throughout the project.
… Mindset
Values
Principles
Practices
Tools &
Source: http://agilemanifesto.org Processes

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12 Principles of the Agile Manifesto
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5. Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the
environment and support they need, and trust them to get the
job done.
6. The most efficient and effective method of conveying
information to and within a development team is face-to-face
conversation.
7. Business value is the primary measure of progress.
8. Agile processes promote sustainable development. The
sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a
constant pace indefinitely.
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Mindset
Values
Principles
Practices
Tools &
Source: http://agilemanifesto.org Processes

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12 Principles of the Agile Manifesto
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9. Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design
enhances agility.
10. Simplicity--the art of maximizing the amount of work not
done--is essential.
11. The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge
from self-organizing teams.
12. At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more
effective, then tunes and adjusts its behaviour accordingly.
Mindset
Values
Principles
Practices
Tools &
Processes

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Practices
Mindset
Values
Principles
Practices
Tools &
Processes

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Agile is not only scrum
Source: http://www.versionone.com/pdf/2013-state-of-agile-survey.pdf, 3501 respondents

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Mindset – doing agile, being agile
Roles
Org Chart
Processes Tools
New agile
structure
Customs Language
Behaviors
Values
Traditions
Culture Mindset
Beliefs
Stereotypes
Taboos
Visible formal system
Invisible informal system
Values
Principles
Practices
Tools &
Processes
Source: Opening minds: Cultural change with the introduction of open-source collaboration methods’ - A. Neus and P. Scherf,

15. What’s your culture?
Source: Schneider, W. (1999). The reengineering alternative : a plan for making your current culture work. New York: McGraw-Hill. 16

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Agile friendly culture
47%
3%
41% 9%
Source: http://collectiveedgecoaching.com/2010/07/agile__culture/

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One person decides No dependencies
ScrumMaster
Value
hypothesis Value*
Product owner Development team
No special roles
1 month or less
9 people
or less
Owns the process
Scrum: A world without PMs?

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Pigs and Chickens
Hey pig! Let’s open a restaurant!
Hey chicken! What
would we call it?
How about
I don’t think so. You’d only be
involved but I’d be committed.
?
“Ham and Eggs?”
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Agility at the team level
does not translate directly
into enterprise agility.

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Agile Project Management
Project
Level
Solution
Development
Team
Other
Roles

20. • Synchronizes & aligns teams
• Emerging industry standard
• Successful at scale
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Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

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SAFe defines many roles at a program level
DevOps
UX
Systems
architect
Business
owners
Release
management
Systems
team
Product
management
AgilePM
(RTE)
Shared

22. Be OK with not
pretending you
know too much
about the future.
f2f collaboration
is your dominant
communication
mode
Managing
Product Delivery,
would be
handled by the
Team Managers
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Management Levels in Prince
Take the work to
the people, not
the people to the
work

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