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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My experience

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Your experience with Agility

1 = Very Little Experience/No Experience

2 = Some Experience

3 = Experienced

4 = Very Experienced

5 = Expert

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We believe in challenging the status quo and in the innate ability of people to rise to the challenges of

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Why agile?

Source: https://www.startwithwhy.com/

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Where is you pain?

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Mindset

Values

Principles

Practices

Tools &Processes

We use JIRA

We do stand-ups

We are co-located

We do just enough documentation

We work together

What is agile?

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Mindset

Values

Principles

Practices

Tools &Processes

Agile manifesto

Source: http://agilemanifesto.org

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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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Mindset

Values

Principles

Practices

Tools &ProcessesSource: http://agilemanifesto.org

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12 Principles of the Agile Manifesto

…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.

…Mindset

Values

Principles

Practices

Tools &ProcessesSource: http://agilemanifesto.org

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12 Principles of the Agile Manifesto

…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.Mindset

Values

Principles

Practices

Tools &Processes

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Practices

Mindset

Values

Principles

Practices

Tools &Processes

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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

Roles

Org Chart

Processes Tools

LanguageCustomsBehaviors

Values Traditions

BeliefsStereotypes

Taboos

Visible formal system

Invisible informal system

New agile structure

Source: Opening minds: Cultural change with the introduction of open-source collaboration methods’ - A. Neus and P. Scherf,

Culture Mindset

Values

Principles

Practices

Tools &Processes

16Source: Schneider, W. (1999). The reengineering alternative : a plan for making your current culture work. New York: McGraw-Hill.

What’s your culture?

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47%

41% 9%

3%

Source: http://collectiveedgecoaching.com/2010/07/agile__culture/

Agile friendly culture

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Development teamProduct owner

One person decides

No dependencies

No special roles

1 month or less

Value hypothesis Value*

9 people or less

ScrumMasterOwns the process

Scrum: A world without PMs?

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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

ProjectLevel

SolutionDevelopmentTeam

OtherRoles

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• Synchronizes & aligns teams• Emerging industry standard• Successful at scale

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

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DevOps

UX

Systems architect

Business owners

Release management

Systems team

Product management

AgilePM(RTE)Shared

SAFe defines many roles at a program level

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Managing Product Delivery, would be handled by the Team Managers

Management Levels in Prince

Take the work to the people, not the people to the work

f2f collaboration is your dominant communication mode

Be OK with not pretending you know too much about the future.

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