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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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.
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Source: http://agilemanifesto.org
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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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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.
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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
New agile
structure
Visible formal system
Org Chart
Roles
Customs
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Tools
Language
Behaviors
Values
Traditions
Culture
Mindset
Values
Beliefs
Stereotypes
Taboos
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Invisible informal system
Source: Opening minds: Cultural change with the introduction of open-source collaboration methods’ - A. Neus and P. Scherf,
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What’s your culture?
Source: Schneider, W. (1999). The reengineering alternative : a plan for making your current culture work. New York: McGraw-Hill.
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Agile friendly culture
47%
41%
Source: http://collectiveedgecoaching.com/2010/07/agile__culture/
3%
9%
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Scrum: A world without PMs?
ScrumMaster
One person decides
Product owner
No dependencies
Value
hypothesis
Owns the process
Development team
Value*
9 people
or less
No special roles
1 month or less
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Pigs and Chickens
Hey pig! Let’s open a restaurant!
Hey chicken! What
would we call it?
How about
“Ham and Eggs?”
I don’t think so. You’d only be
involved but I’d be committed.
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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
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Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
• Synchronizes & aligns teams
• Emerging industry standard
• Successful at scale
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SAFe defines many roles at a program level
DevOps
Release
management
Shared
Systems
team
Systems
architect
UX
Product
management
AgilePM
(RTE)
Business
owners
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Management Levels in Prince
Be OK with not
pretending you
know too much
about the future.
f2f collaboration
is your dominant
communication
mode
Take the work to
the people, not
the people to the
work
Managing
Product Delivery,
would be
handled by the
Team Managers
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