Dimensional Planning presented at Devoxx 2009

1. Dimensional Planning
by Koen Van Exem
Business Manager/inxin

2. Dimensional Planning
The What and the Why of
Dimensional Planning.

3. Agenda
Prerequisites
Dimensional Planning
The Technique
The Rationale
Our Friends and Foes

4. Speaker’s qualifications
Koen is Business Manager @ inxin
Koen is Business Manager @ Allors
Koen is a board member @ Agile Consortium

5. PREREQUISITES

6. Prerequisites
Iterative vs Incremental
Scope is hierarchical
Planning

7. Purely Incremental
Pictures © Xavier Quesada Allue

8. Iterative & Incremental
Pictures © by Xavier Quesada Allue

9. Very Iterative, yet still Incremental
Pictures © Alistair Cockburn

10. Iterative
Picture © Parker Brothers

11. Iterative and non-incremental
Picture © Unknown

12. Iterative and non-incremental
Picture © Unknown

13. Iterative and decremental
Picture © Unknown

14. Scope is hierarchical
User Story Clustering/Mapping
Feature Composition a la FDD
Micro and Macro level

15. Feature a la FDD
Template
<action> <result> <object>
Example
calculate the total of a sale
Validate the password of a user
update the “what’s new list” from the RSS feed

16. Feature Set a la FDD
Template
<action><-ing> a(n) <object>
Example
Printing an invoice
Selling a book

17. Major Feature Set a la FDD
Template
<object> management
Examples
Sales Management
Inventory Management

18. FDD Parking Lot (1/2)
Picture © The Coad Letter, Embarcadero

19. FDD Parking Lot (2/2)
Picture © The Coad Letter, Embarcadero

20. Planning
http://agilemanifesto.org/

21. Planning

22. DIMENSIONAL PLANNING

23. Dimensional Planning
The Technique
The Rationale

24. The Technique
Meet the Dimensions
Applied at the micro level
Applied at the macro level

25. The Dirt Road

26. The Cobblestone Road

27. The Asphalt Road

28. Applied to Micro Level
Multiple Axes
Functional Axis
Non-Functional Axis

29. Functional Axis

30. Non-Functional Axis

31. Applied to the Macro Level
Alternative Futures

32. © Warner Bros

33. The Rationale
Theory of Constraints
Return on Investment (ROI)
Quality & Manufacturability
Lead and Cycle Time
Diminishing Marginal Results & Pareto Rule
Throughput Accounting

34. Theory of Constraints
© Levinson Productivity Systems

35. Resource Capacity

36. Managing the Constraint

37. Return On Investment

38. Effect Dimensional Planning on ROI

39. Quality
Fitness for (Business) purpose
Technical Robustness

40. Manufacturability
© unknown

41. Lead & Cycle Time
Request
Start
Stop
Cycle Time
Cycle Time
Lead Time
Lead Time
Delivery

42. Throughput Accounting

43. System Inventory

44. © unknown

45. Diminishing Marginal Results

46. Pareto’s Princinple

47. FRIENDS AND FOES

48. Friends
User Story Mapping
Real Options Analysis
Beyond Budgetting

49. User Story Mapping
time
necessary
more
optional
first release
optionality
less
optional
second release
third release
© Jeff Patton, all rights reserved, www.AgileProductDesign.com

50. Real Options Analysis
Decision tree analysis for the clinical trial of a new drug (source: L.E.K. / www.lek.com)

51. Beyond Budgetting
© Juergen Daum (www.juergendaum.com).

52. Foes
Parkinson’s Law
Work expands so as to fill the time available for
its completion.
Descoping
Buffering

53. Summary
Dimensional Planning
Planning 2.0
Compatible with all major Methodologies
Even with the waterfall ;-)
More info on http://www.inxin.com/

54. Thanks for your attention!
“It is not necessary to change survival is not mandatory"
-- W. Edwards Deming