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Ten
Golden Rules for
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Successful
Agile Projects
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Keith Richards
Director
KRC
‘Most Valuable Agile Player UK’ (Agile Awards 2011)
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•Presentation
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• Introduction
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• Methodology
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• The 10 Golden
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• Further information
• Close and questions.
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•Introductions
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• Method/Process
Consultant
• Specialising
Agile Approaches to Projects
• Thirdinlevel
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levelAgile capability within organisations
• Focusing on
improving
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• Experienced in» PRINCE2
and DSDM Atern
• DSDM Membership Director (formerly Technical Director)
• IAF Accredited Facilitator
• Author of ‘Agile Project Management’ (TSO)
• KRC is a pioneering training and consultancy company.
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•Methodology
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• Just first –hand
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• Your experiences
will be different – this is good
• If you obey the 10 golden rules
… you will increase your chances of success!
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1: Define
the project
objective
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• This will take »you
a long time to do
• It will help you to kill a project going nowhere
• The scope of the project will map on to this.
TIP: can you write the project objective on
a Post-it note with a flip chart marker?
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2: Build
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who say ‘can’
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• Choose the
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• “If you think you
can’t, you’re right” – Carol Bartz
• You need collaboration and team spirit.
TIP: ask a team member this question: ‘can I ask a favour?’
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• You must avoid» analysis
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• Try and spot early solutioneering.
TIP: ask yourself ‘is it safe to move on?’
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4: Look
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• Try this! - Review,
Plan, Do
• Share your experiences with other teams.
TIP: Ask yourself how many of your projects have
ended with a project review.
The answer should be ‘all of them’!
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5: Change
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• Evolve and converge
on the solution with the right kind of change.
TIP: How do you feel when a customer says
“I’ve changed my mind”?
…… because you should be happy!
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• You have to play
with the cards you are dealt
• This will give you ownership.
TIP: Try the 10 second silence when getting a
progress update – nothing else can compete with it!
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7: Collect
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• Start now – build
a metrics database
• Keep it simple to start with
• Calibrate your estimates.
TIP: Do you know (to the nearest day) how much time
was spent on testing during your last project?
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8: Use
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• Shift
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And never put anything in an email’ – Eliot Spitzer
• Go visual
• Use workshops.
TIP: Try turning a document over and
take a look at what is on the back
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• You may
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• Get the team »involved
• Be ‘a bit of a worrier’.
TIP: Actively manage your risk log it is not a storage area
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• Time
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• Timeboxes– not
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• If you are going
to fail – fail early
• Prioritise with MoSCoW – it should be natural.
TIP: Set a deadline and hit it
– never extend it, not even once!
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Further Information
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• KRC help organisations with their transition to Agile
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• KRC offers a variety of Agile training (DSDM Atern/AgilePM specialists)
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• Maturity assessment (‘project health check’)
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• Facilitation, mentoring
& remote support
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• Free downloads from www.agilekrc.com
• The DSDM Group (LinkedIn)
• Twitter @agilekrc
• Facebook (KRC)
• Agile Project Management: running PRINCE2 projects with DSDM Atern
(available from www.dsdm.org or TSO).
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Ten
Golden Rules for
• Third level
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Agile Projects
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Any questions?
[email protected]
www.keithrichardsconsulting.co.uk
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The 10 Golden Rules
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Define the project objective in less than 10 words
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Build a team with those who say ‘can’
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Go slow early to go fast later
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Look backwards
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go forwards
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Change is great
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To be understood, seek first to understand
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Collect actuals – this is the oxygen for your project
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Use fat communication channels
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Work hard at controlling what you can’t control
10. One more day? NO! We’ll catch up? NO!
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