#NOPROJECTS

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WHY I S I T TREND ING I N AG I LEWORLD ?

S R V Subrahmaniam

Enterprise Agile Coach

Scaled agile specialist, with substantial transformationexperience in global corporations.

How often have you seen asuccessful project insoftware development?

RARE ?

PMI definitionPROJECT

"It's a temporary endeavor undertaken to createa unique product, service or result. A project is

temporary in that it has a defined beginning andend in time, and therefore defined scope and

resources."

t r i p l e c o n s t r a i n t s

T I M E B U D G E T

Deadline for delivery Requirements whichthe project mustdeliver

S C O P E

Finite amountavailable todeliver givenscope within giventime

Are there multiple projectswithin the same

application?

Analyze01

Is scope change reallyundesirable?

Describe02

Delivery is something which happens at one goor many times over the project duration?

If some requirements remain unfinished at endof project, is the project considered a failure?

Plan & Develop03

INDICATIONSO F

P O T E N T I A L

M I S F I T

IN A LONG-LIVED APPLICATION

ARE PROJECTS TEMPORARY?

Continuous delivery?

Product flow?

PROJECT GOVERNANCE

Command and Control. Little buy-inTEAM PARTICIPATION

force certainty. Control or exploit?CERTAINTY

Expansive & Expensive set-upSTRUCTURE

Compliance to Plan. Non-value addedMETRICS

Too much upfront. Sets stage for futurefailure

ESTIMATION

GET DISBANDEDTEAMS

HOW DO PRODUCTS EVOLVE

W A Y F O R W A R D

T E A MF O C U S

O U T C O M E S

B U D G E T

P R O D U C TF O C U S

Teams remain central to delivery.Do not movepeople to work, move work to teams.

Assess on outcomes (and value generated)rather than on utilisation or budgets.

Variable scope helps to retain the productcentric view. Technical Debt reduction /environment & tooling get importance.

Budget for capacity (and overheads). Moveaway from scope based exercise.

KNOWLEDGEINTENSIVEPRODUCTS

Software product spacehas to be provide for

innovation andcollaboration

DO NOT FOCUS ONUTILIZATION

Utilization or budgetburn-up does not indicate

output quality

FOCUS ON VALUE

Focus on outcomes.

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