Agile methodologies allow us to achieve more with less resources. As a project manager what do you need to focus on to ensure success. Four things you can do are:
1. Empower the product owner
2. Build towards MVP and continuously adapt to get the most business value
3. Share insights and meaningful metrics and act on them to improve product outcomes
4. Tailor the methodology and pace…resulting in alignment and transparency.
2. Adrian Moise, CEO
UBISoft, Electronic Arts, Microsoft,
Blast Radius, iQMetrix
Su Ning Strube, VP,
Business Strategy
HootSuite, Vision Critical, Blast
Radius, Sierra Systems
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9. What are some of
biggest challenges
in managing
an agile project?
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10. “Why isn’t it finished?”
“When will it be done?”
“What am I approving?”
“I need to see all of these
features!”
“Who’s responsible for User
Acceptance Testing?”
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Client Concerns
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“Why can’t you just build it?!”
“I’ve done Agile a million times.”
“I don’t know what I want, but I
know how to get it.”
“I tried Agile and did not really
like it.”
“Why so many meetings?
11. • Receiving client
acceptance/approval
• Fixed priced projects
• Understanding agile approach
• Identifying product owner
• Establishing a completion/launch
date
• Being bias by previous waterfall
experience
• Geographically distributed teams
• Getting the team to commit to
complete what they’ve promised
• Understanding incremental build
process and business value
• Cultural differences across
resources
• Definition of “Done-Done”
• Project metrics and reporting
• Accountability of Product Owner
• Changing stories of an iteration
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Common Obstacles/Challenges
14. Agile is faster and cheaper.
Agile requires less time from the client.
Agile requires no documentation.
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Perceptions about Agile
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Perceptions Actual
Agile is faster and cheaper
Agile requires less time
from the client
Agile requires no
documentation
Agile focuses on quality and
business value
Agile requires active and
ongoing participation from
client
Agile requires “just enough”
documentation
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32. So how does this relate to
setting expectations with
clients?
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33. 1. Empower the product owner
2. Build towards MVP and continuously adapt to get
the most business value
3. Share insights and meaningful metrics and act on
them to improve product outcomes
4. Tailor the methodology and pace
…resulting in alignment and transparency.
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Hinweis der Redaktion
Adrian and Su Ning
Adrian – Agile missconceptions
Adrian
Adrian
Adrian to facilitate, Su Ning to whiteboard
Set a baseline understanding of what agile for the audience. For all intensive purposes, Scrum Master = Project Manager.
The goal of an agile team is deliver, at any point in the project, finished increments of work that are deemed to deliver the highest business value with what is known at that time about the project.
In general, agile projects work with the assumptions that quality and cost are usually fixed, but that scope is flexible and will be constantly adjusted to reflect both the project reality and current business priorities.
Su Ning – process overview
Jillian – is this an image we created? If not we should probably reference (as with all images). *Aside all the images in this deck are ones we could customize for AEQ’s playbook.
We will provide some pointers on how you can turn an agile-skeptic into a true product owner. We will also share our learning on prioritizing features into an MVP, delivering horizontal slices of functionality per iteration and getting acceptance/client sign off.
Adrian to facilitate, Su Ning to whiteboard
White board answers from audience. Alternate questions:
Compared to traditional waterfall methodology, what are some of the difficulties you’ve encountered when kicking off an agile project?
Specifically related to managing client’s expectations, what are the biggest challenges you’ve experienced?
Su Ning
Adrian
***Need more ideas to list here! Approx 20
Top 3 for discussion:
Accountability for Product Owner – acceptance and prioritization of features
Being bias by previous waterfall experience – final deliverable, complete feature set, fewer touchpoints/approvals
Understanding agile approach – general principles and tenants for success
Su Ning
Jillian – image?
Su Ning
Adrian
Su Ning - BG
Su Ning
Adrian – Monexa, BD
Adrian - IPP
Su Ning – BG / Version One
Adrian - adap
Adrian, UoA
Su Ning – BG, 90 days planning
Adrian - IPP
Adrian - IPP
Su Ning, BG
Adrian - BuildDirect
Adrian – Monexa and introducing PO role
Adrian – BuildDirect – no one available to make decisions
Adrian – Monexa – no on available, needed to identify new role to take on responsibility
Su Ning – BasicGov – visionary vs. product owner on client side
Adrian – BuildDirect
Su Ning - overview
Jillian – is this an image we created? If not we should probably reference (as with all images). *Aside all the images in this deck are ones we could customize for AEQ’s playbook.
We will provide some pointers on how you can turn an agile-skeptic into a true product owner. We will also share our learning on prioritizing features into an MVP, delivering horizontal slices of functionality per iteration and getting acceptance/client sign off.