AGILE TOOLKIT FOR PROJECTMANAGERS

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THE GAPS(TO NAME A FEW)

Context

Terminology

Phases & Milestones & Governance?

Role of PM and roles of Agile Teams extending to DevOps

Stakeholders & Goals

Documentation & Risk

Estimates

Hybrid Agile

Requirements

Estimating

Qualities

Adoption vs Transformation

Questions & Answers

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CONTEXT

TERMINOLOGY

Overloaded

Copyrighted

Confusing

“CONTEXT COUNTS – BE PRAGMATIC – CHOICE IS GOOD”

- MARK LINES (DISCIPLINED AGILE)

Projects

IT Delivery

Products (Features / Services)

IT Delivery + Operations + IT + Business

Delivery

DevOps

eDevOpsEnterprise Aware & Reach

CONTEXT

CONTEXT Why cripple your potential and reduce joy?

TERMINOLOGY

AGILE != DEVOPS

DEVOPS != TOOLS

DEVOPS starts with MINDSET

“ enterprise DevOps is a way of working (WoW)

that brings continuous improvement across the

enterprise seamlessly, through people, processes and

tools.” – Brent Reed

“the union of people, process, and products to enable

continuous delivery of value to our end users.” – Donovan

Brown (Principal DevOps Manager, Microsoft)

THE GAPS(TO NAME A FEW)

Context

Terminology

Phases & Milestones & Governance?

Role of PM and roles of Agile Teams extending to DevOps

Stakeholders & Goals

Documentation & Risk

Estimates

Hybrid Agile

Requirements

Estimating

Qualities

Adoption vs Transformation

Questions & Answers

PHASES – PROJECTS START AND END, SO DO PRODUCTS & SERVICES

Understand

Agree

Approve

Build & Do Deliver &

Operate

Close &

Retire

Agile Lifecycles that include DevOps

We can choose Agile Lifecycles that evolve & improve

SCRUM

Phases

No Cadence when LEAN

Goals for each Phase

Release Management is important

Phases

DevOps – reduce phase cadences, and iterations

Goals for each phase remain the same

Evolve & Refine our PPP (people, process, products)

Greater value, reduce risk, improve outcomes, more joy

Milestones

- Modeling & Conversations

- JBGE

- Lightweight Governance

Governance

Agile & DevOps teams will be

governed by your leadership so

they should be governed well. –

Disciplined Agile

Effective Governance is:

MOTIVATION (people) to do the right thing & enabling them to do it!

Governance

Agile & DevOps teams will be

governed by your leadership so

they should be governed well. –

Disciplined Agile

Effective Governance is:

MOTIVATION (people) to do the right thing & enabling them to do it!

THE GAPS(TO NAME A FEW)

Context

Terminology

Phases & Milestones & Governance?

Role of PM and roles of Agile Teams extending to DevOps

Stakeholders & Goals

Documentation & Risk

Estimates

Hybrid Agile

Requirements

Estimating

Qualities

Adoption vs Transformation

Questions & Answers

ROLES NOT TITLES

Self organizing team means what exactly?

No perfect Role for PMs they can choose

Agile and DevOps do not have traditional roles

Transitioning to Product Management leverages

many skills PMs process beyond Team Lead or

Product Owner

THE GAPS(TO NAME A FEW)

Context

Terminology

Phases & Milestones & Governance?

Role of PM and roles of Agile Teams extending to DevOps

Stakeholders & Goals

Documentation & Risk

Hybrid Agile

Requirements

Estimating

Qualities

Adoption vs Transformation

Questions & Answers

OUR STAKEHOLDER IS ANYONE WHO TOUCHES OUR PRODUCT (MATERIAL IMPACTED)

GOAL DRIVEN

Address Changing

Stakeholders Needs

Governing Delivery

Teams

Accelerate Value of

Delivery

DOCUMENT CONTINUALLY, ITERATIVELY, INTELLIGENTLY

Document lightly &

often (JBGE)

Effective

C*R*U*F*T

Quality over

Documentation

MODEL DRIVEN DESIGN

MODEL DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT

Automation and Intelligent

Repository

WHAT ABOUT RISK?HOW ABOUT A RISK-VALUE LIFECYCLE?

THE GAPS(TO NAME A FEW)

Context

Terminology

Phases & Milestones & Governance?

Role of PM and roles of Agile Teams extending to DevOps

Stakeholders & Goals

Documentation & Risk

Hybrid Agile

Requirements

Estimating

Qualities

Adoption vs Transformation

Questions & Answers

Refining and evolving our way of working which leverages

DevOps across the enterprise

FOCUS on: Value to Stakeholder, at Velocity

6 lifecycles – hybrid approach to agile & DevOps

HYBRID AGILE APPROACH

REQUIREMENTS: Elicit through Stories and Work Items

Iterate as we go, deeper definition as we learn, build, measure and deploy

MVP

MVF

MMR

MMP

informs

informs

informs

DevOps – leverages, people, process, tools in CI/CD

fashion (re-use is important for all)

• ESTIMATE Short pieces of work look ahead modeling

• Measure velocity (burn-up / down charts) & Metrics

Continuously, share and evolve

• Feedback baked in

• GQM (lightly) & other strategies

KEY TO DEVOPS WITH PROJECTS TO PRODUCTS

LEVERAGE & ENHANCE CONTINUALLY

TEAMS (PEOPLE) & SKILLS

EXISTING INFRASTRUCTURE

AUTOMATION

TEST EARLY / OFTEN / AUTOMATED (TFD,TDD, BDD)

REDUCE or AVOID TECHNICAL DEBT

SOFTWARE

REFACTOR (TFD+REFACTOR=TDD)

RE-USE

QUALITIES IMPROVE

THE GAPS(TO NAME A FEW)

Context

Terminology

Phases & Milestones & Governance?

Role of PM and roles of Agile Teams extending to DevOps

Stakeholders & Goals

Documentation & Risk

Hybrid Agile

Requirements

Estimating

Qualities

Adoption vs Transformation

Questions & Answers

ADOPTION THROUGH TRANSFORMATION

• Certified Classes run often (wide catalog) – PDUs, Certification

• Coaching & Guidance

• Agile IT (BA, EA, DevOps) onsite or remote work

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