1. How to Make Your Business More Agile July 23, 2015
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3. Charles G. Cobb Over 20 years of project and program
management experience. Over 10 years consulting experience helping
companies improve business processes and project management
methodologies Author of five books on Agile Project Management and
Business Excellence. Adjunct Professor at Boston University.
Website: www.ManagedAgile.com
4. Agile Adoption Has Doubled Since 2009 A Forrester study from
2009 observed that 35% of organizations used agile. Actuation
Consultings 2013 research shows that 73.68% have adopted agile to
develop products 4
5. What Are the Benefits to Your Business? 1. Adaptability - an
alternative way for companies to manage projects that involve high
levels of uncertainty 2. Time-to-market - the potential to
significantly accelerate the startup phase of new projects
Actuation Consultings 2013 study reports that 86.9% of agile users
attribute higher profits to the adoption of agile. 3. Reduced costs
- opportunities to reduce the costs and overhead associated with
projects 4. Customer satisfaction - produce higher value solutions
that are more well- aligned with user needs 5. Organizational
agility - build much higher levels of collaboration, trust, and
shared responsibility within the organization 2014-2015
Breakthrough Solutions, Inc. 5
6. Challenge #1 Choosing the Right Approach to Fit Your
Business Waterfall Agile
7. Many businesses and project managers see this as a binary
and mutually-exclusive choice and attempt to force-fit their
business and projects to one of these extremes That often causes a
lot of confusion and consternation The Problem Waterfall Agile
Projects Business Environment
8. Fit the approach (or combination of approaches) to the
project and to the business environment The SolutionBusiness
Environment Project Characteristics Overall Project Approach
Development Approach That may require more skill but it definitely
can be done!
9. Challenge #2 Agile May Require a Shift in Thinking for
Project Managers
10. Challenges for Project Managers Manhattan Project 1945
2014-2015 Charles G Cobb 10 Large Government Programs (e.g.,
Polaris) 1950 - 1960 CPM, PERT Invented 1950 - 1960 PMI Was Formed
1969 The roots of how we do project management today go back to the
1950s and 1960s
11. 2014-2015 Charles G Cobb 11 The Pace of New Technology Has
Increased Dramatically Challenges for Project Managers (cont.)
12. What Problems Does Agile Solve and How Does it Solve Those
Problems? How Does This Work?
13. What is Agile? 2014-2015 Charles G Cobb 13 Agile Provides a
More Flexible and adaptive Approach to Project Management
14. What is Waterfall? Define Requirements Design/Develop
Solution Test/Implement Solution Key Characteristics: Attempts to
define and stabilize detailed requirements upfront prior to the
start of the project 2014-2015 Charles G Cobb 14 Implement Change
Control The goal is to try to achieve predictability and control
over the project costs and schedule
15. Problems with Original Waterfall Approach Define
Requirements Design/Develop Solution Test/Implement Solution
Problems are many times not discovered until final testing
2014-2015 Charles G Cobb 15 Problems Many Times Not Discovered
Until Final Testing Process for Correcting Errors Could be Long and
Expensive
16. Problems with Original Waterfall Approach (cont.) Define
Requirements Design/Develop Solution Test/Implement Solution
Control over requirements can create a very inflexible approach
that is not responsive to changes 2014-2015 Charles G Cobb 16 Very
Limited Customer Feedback Until Final User Acceptance Testing User
Acceptance Testing Implement Change Control
17. How Does Agile Overcome These Problems? Projects are broken
up into short intervals to deliver quickly and incrementally
2014-2015 Charles G Cobb 17 Short Sprint (2-4 weeks) Short Sprint
(2-4 weeks) Short Sprint (2-4 weeks) Short Sprint (2-4 weeks)
Product Owner Reviews and Accepts Deliverables
18. How Does Agile Overcome These Problems? (cont.) Testing is
done concurrently with development 2014-2015 Charles G Cobb 18
Short Sprint (2-4 weeks) Short Sprint (2-4 weeks) Short Sprint (2-4
weeks) Short Sprint (2-4 weeks) Product Owner Reviews and Accepts
Deliverables Development Testing
19. How Does Agile Overcome These Problems? (cont.) Agile is
based on a close partnership with the business users to maximize
business value 2014-2015 Charles G Cobb 19 Define Requirements
Design/Develop Solution Test/Implement Solution Traditional
Plan-driven Approach Agile Approach Contractual Approach
Partnership Approach High-level Requirements Further Elaborate
Requirements
20. What are the results in typical companies? Case
Studies
21. Results: Faster time-to-market Delivering more frequent
value to customers Employee productivity and morale Teams became
self-managing, Projects required a lot less management focus
Managers were able to focus on a much more strategic level Improved
software quality Background: Best known for blue envelopes stuffed
with marketing coupons Highly automated facility in Tampa, FL Major
top-to-bottom conversion to Agile using Scaled Agile Framework
22. Results: Created strong business operations and IT
partnerships Developed flexible business architecture to support
change Introduced Agile approach and philosophy without disrupting
business operations Ranked #1 for Nine Years in Member Satisfaction
and Quality of Care Despite Massive Changes Background:
Full-service health benefits company serving members throughout
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, and beyond Consistently rated
among the top plans in the country Outdated IT Infrastructure
required very large, complex effort with approximately 100 agile
teams over a five year period A large part of the development
effort was outsourced Hybrid Agile/plan-driven approach
23. Why Not Waterfall? 2014-2015 Charles G Cobb 23 1. Business
users wanted to see something delivered quickly for feedback. 2.
The technical team wanted much greater business input all along the
way 3. Risk of moving forward without frequent and continuing
business feedback was very high 4. The Waterfall process was too
slow to respond to changes 5. Needed more focus on business
priorities
24. Create a well-integrated Agile Project Management approach
that is well-aligned with your business, and Blends traditional
plan-driven project management and Agile Training Overview Make
your business more nimble and adaptive in a dynamic, fast-paced
business environment without sacrificing control
25. Whats Unique About this Training? 2014-2015 Charles G Cobb
25 Traditional Plan-driven Project Management (Waterfall) Agile We
need to see these two approaches in a fresh new perspective as
complementary to each other rather than competitive
26. Training Strategy and Approach 2014-2015 Charles G Cobb 26
Integrated Cross-functional Team Approach Project Managers Business
Managers Project Teams
27. 2014-2015 Charles G Cobb 27 PMP Getting a PMP and PMI-ACP
are going in the right direction but much more needs to be done ACP
Primary Audiences Project Managers Learning how to integrate Agile
and traditional Project Management principles and practices
28. Additional Audiences Business Managers 2014-2015 Charles G
Cobb 28 Fortunately, there are ways for a business to become much
more agile without losing control but it takes some skill to do
that
29. Additional Audiences Agile Teams 2014-2015 Charles G Cobb
29 Integrate an effective project management approach into their
efforts Understand Agile at a deeper level to develop a more
adaptive approach Agile is based on a strong cross-functional team
approach where everyone on the team participates actively in some
aspect of overall project management
30. Understanding Agile at a Deeper Level Online Training
Course Summary Learn the Truth About Agile versus Waterfall
Mastering Agile Project Management Excellent Preparation for
Professional Scrum Master (PSM) Excellent Preparation for PMI Agile
Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) 2014-2015 Breakthrough Solutions,
Inc. 30
31. Online Training Course Summary (cont.) Making Agile Work
for Your Business Advanced Agile Project Management Mastering Agile
Project Management Enterprise-level Agile Implementation All of my
courses qualify for earning PDUs from PMI 2014-2015 Breakthrough
Solutions, Inc. 31
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