Early Delivery of Real Business Benefits with Agile

Project Management™

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Lenny Descamps, APM Group

Jeff Ball, QRP-International

Agile Project Management™ is a registered trademark of APM Group Limited

Agenda

• Welcome and introduction by:

– Lenny Descamps, Marketing Manager APMG-International France, Belgique

– Jeff Ball, Senior Trainer (Prince2, MSP, MoP, P3O, AgilePM)

• Background: DSDM & AgilePM

• DSDM basics

• New ways to add value

• AgilePM: an enterprise tool

• Training & Certification

• Q&A

• Institut d’Examen créé en 1993 au Royaume-Uni

• Développe des formations et des examens/certifications

• Accrédite des organismes de formation selon les normes de

qualité les plus élevées gage de qualité pour les candidats

• + 270 organismes accrédités avec 1500 formateurs

• Portefeuille de 40 produits en gestion de projet et IT

• Programme exclusif d’accréditation d’organisme de conseil

• 12 filiales dans le monde

• Plus de 250 000 examens en 2013

APMG-International

Groupe APMG-Meilleures pratiques projets et IT

QRP International

Louise Laurenius – Regional Manager Scandinavia

• Joined QRP International in 2013

• In charge of information providing regarding best practices

and coordination of training services in Scandinavia.

Jeff Ball – Senior Trainer (Prince2, MSP, MoP, P3O, AgilePM)

• Multilingual trainer able to perform courses in English and

French.

• Responsible for the development and update of the QRP

International accredited MSP and P3O Material.

Reckitt & Colman

• Project Manager of global project for R&D • Timeboxes & MoSCoW prioritisation (pre-Agile)

NEC Computers

• Programme Manager • Y2K global programme

• Programme Office Manager • European ERP rollout in 10 countries

• PMO • Created PMO for European IT (Prince2, PM tools,…)

Fortis Bank / BNP Paribas

• PMO • Support for 150 project managers

• Programme Office Manager • 16m€ programme for merger of Middle Office operations (part of

merger of Fortis Investments into BNP Paribas group)

Jeff Ball

Project & Programme experience

Quick Poll 1

Background: DSDM & AgilePM

AgilePM®

Agile Project Management™ is based on DSDM Atern – DSDM - The oldest established Agile approach (1995)

– Owned by The DSDM Consortium (A not-for-profit organization)

– Established and proven integration between *DSDM®Atern® and **PRINCE2®

*DSDM and Atern are Registered Trade Marks of DSDL Limited in the United Kingdom and other countries

** PRINCE2® is a Registered Trade Mark of the Office of Government Commerce in the United Kingdom and other countries.

DSDM Atern

Agile Unified Process (AUP)

Scrum

Lean

Extreme Programming (XP)

Lightweight Approaches Fuller Approaches (but still agile)

What is Agile?

A style of working

– Flexibility

– Working closely with customer throughout

– Ensuring final solution actually meets business need

– Deferring decisions about detail as late as possible

People and Interactions over

Processes and Tools

Working Software over

Comprehensive

Documentation

Customer Collaboration over

Contract Negotiation

Responding to Change over

Following a Plan

Agile was born with The “Agile Manifesto” (2002)

Today we would say: Working solutions

DSDM Basics

Agile vs Traditional

DSDM Atern has a new approach

Examples

• Waterfall project

• IT V-model

• Specification-driven project

MoSCoW Prioritization

12

Minimum Useable Subset

Out of Scope for this timeframe

Must Have

Should Have

Could Have

Won’t have this time

Guaranteed

Expected

Possibly

Maybe

next time

Timeboxes provide control

Quick Poll 2

New ways to add value

• Specification driven (BDUF = Big Design Up-Front)

• Development is monolithic (non-iterative)

• Deployment is near the end of the project

• Benefits arrive after the project

Traditional V-model

Benefits

Specification

Analysis

Unit Test Design

Build

Integration

Test

User test

Project Lifecycle

Deploy

Agile prefers “Working Solutions”

Iterative development builds a value

stream Iterative development = converging towards a working solution

Early timeboxes may only deliver models or rough prototypes

Later timeboxes deliver working solutions with increasing functionality

Agile prefers “Working Solutions”

Incremental deployment delivers value

Early and incremental deployment means early benefits

Feedback from use speeds the convergence toward final working solution

Benefits

AgilePM: an enterprise tool

AgilePM

Roles and Responsibilities

• One person can have more than 1 role

• A role can be shared between people

• Project roles

– Managing, directing, co-ordinating

• Solution Development Team (SDT)

– Creating the Solution

Business

Solution

Project Mgt

DSDM Atern Lifecycle

Products

• Foundations = EDUF (Enough design up front)

• Flexibility: Not all products required for every

project

Delivering the Business Case

22

AgilePM

Discover requirements, improve estimates

– Initial FEW requirements, with LOW detail

– Initial Estimates are APPROXIMATE – they improve as project

advances

Training and Certification

• PRINCE2 - Project Management

• MSP - Programme Management

• P3O - Portfolio, Programme and Project

Office

• MoP - Management of Portfolios

• ITIL - IT Service management

• AGILE Project Management

QRP’s Portfolio

AGILE Foundation Course

Foundation Exam

AGILE Practitioner Course

Practitioner Exam

Agile Learning Path

Course

Three day course including exam

general level of AGILE understanding

Practising project managers, Agile team members who wish to

become Agile Project Managers.

Exam

1 hour

60 questions

Multiple choice

50% pass mark

Closed book

All successful delegates will receive the AGILE Foundation certificate from

APMG.

AGILE Foundation

Course

Two day course including exam

how AGILE can be applied to real live projects

Practising project managers, Agile team members who wish to become

Agile Project Managers.

Exam

2 hours

Objective test

4 questions

50% pass mark

Open book (AGILE manual only)

All successful delegates will receive the AGILE Practitioner certificate from

APMG.

AGILE Practitioner

Courses:

Open

In-House

Place:

Many European cities

Language:

Local languages as well as English

More information can be found on our local websites:

www.qrpinternational.se www.qrpinternational.dk

www.qrpinternational.be www.qrpinternational.lu

www.qrpinternational.it www.qrpinternational.pl

…or our international websites… for instance:

www.qrpinternational.com

Courses and Examinations

Q&A

Thank you for your participation!

Keeping in touch

• Survey - Help us improve the quality of our services

• Video of the session - Follow up email

• Questions – Direct Contact:

Scandinavia: louise.laurenius@qrpinternational.com

Belgium: marteen.dauwe@qrpinternational.com

Luxembourg: elise.delpiero@qrpinternational.com

Italy and Romania: donatello.partipilo@qrpinternational.com

Poland: justyna.ptasznik@qrpinternational.com

International