pmi na global congress 2011

Integrating agile in a waterfall

world

TRN 31

Joseph Flahiff, CEO

PMP, CSSGB, CSP, CSM

Whitewater Projects, Inc.

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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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Where are we going?

• Agile in What Context

• Mixed Planning

• Options

• The other 80%

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Agile in What Context?

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Project Management

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Product Management

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Project

Management

Product

Development

Scope Fixed set of

features

On-going

prioritized list of

features

Schedule Start and

end date

multiple

releases

Budget Allocated once Cyclical

Triple constraint

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Agile in an Enterprise

Enterprise

Sales Marketing Product Customer Service Information Technology

Platform Services

Network Operations

Server Operations

Application Management

Application support

Production Support

Application development

Traditional Project

Management

Agile group

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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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Where are we going?

• Agile in What Context

• Mixed Planning

• Options

• The other 80%

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Iteration Based Feature / Release Based

Two Basic Models

Feature 1

Feature 1

Epics

Iteration Time

boxes

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Release 1

Release 2

Rel. 3

Practical Application

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Release 1

Release 2

Rel. 3

Practical Application

External

Dependency

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Release 1

Rel. 2.1

Release 2

Rel. 3

External

milestone

Practical Application

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Where are we going?

• Agile in What context

• Mixed Planning

• Options

• A Better Way

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Sequential (Waterfall)

Agile

Scoping

Scoping

Planning

Planning

Build

Build

Test

Test Feedback

Close

Close

Deploy

Deploy

Incremental Scoping Planning Build Test Close Deploy

Iterative

Scoping Planning Build Test Feedback Close Deploy

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Problem Type

Tame

Wicked

Planning

Upfront

Just in time

Question

What

Why

How Sequential

Incremental

Iterative

Agile

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Common Practices

eXtreme

Programming

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• 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

Lean/Kanban

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Where are we going?

• Agile in What context

• Mixed Planning

• Options

• The other 80%

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Two sides of agile

Technical practices

Management

Theory

Agile

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Coaching Agile Teams: Lyssa Adkins

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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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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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Q&A

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Contact Information

Joseph Flahiff

Joseph@josephflahiff.com

Tel: 888.831.9904

Direct: 206.276.1386

www.whitewaterprojects.com

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