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About Adrian......
• Organisation culture development
• Coaching and mentoring
• Collaboration
• Professional Services build and management
• Business Transformation programme delivery and rescue
• Portfolio, programme and project management capability development
• Enterprise PMO design/build/operate
• Intelligent Client model development
• Member of APM approx. 20 years
• APM Audit Committee
• Frequent speaker , conference chair and blogger
• Cabinet Office White Paper
• OGC: MSP, P3M3 & Portfolio Mngt review panels
• APM – Intro to Programme Mngt & Portfolio Mngt
• The Gower Handbook of Programme Management
• APM Registered Project Professional and Assessor
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We were Agile
The pace of change and the value of being Agile
Being Agile at two levels
Agile Organisational Project management
Being Agile in projects and programmes
Avoiding the pitfalls
Content
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We were Agile – principles
Satisfy the customer, produce outcomes that result in benefits
Embrace changing requirements
Provide an environment for success that is sustainable
Collaborative behaviours based on Trust
Keep it simple
At regular intervals – reflect, learn and adjust
Steve Messenger
Chair: DSDM Consortium
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"Vercingetorix Throws Down His Arms at the Feet of Julius Caesar", 1899, by Lionel Noel Royer
They were Agile
http://www.whereprojectsthrive.uk/julius-caesars-agile-conquest-of-gaul-58-to-50bc/
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Satisfy the customer
Welcome change
Regular successes – success as
measure of progress
Operational and project people work as
one team
Self organising teams
Build an environment around motivated
individuals
Simplicity
Reflect, learn and adjust
Julius Caesar – Conquest of Gaul
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Legion
Centurion
Legatus
Contubernium
(tent group)
Centuries
CohortsPilus Prior
Decanus
Julius Caesar – Conquest of Gaul
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We were Agile
Management created our Landscape
Co-located team including customers
Change reflected developing new business processes
Sustainability: already looking ahead to other services sustainable
Collaborative behaviours based on Trust
Keep it simple – requirements groups for “sprints”
Weekly reviews / learnings
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Pace of Change and Agile
The rate of change is not going to slow
down anytime soon. If anything, competition in
most industries will probably speed up even more
in the next few decades – John P. Kotter
Faster development and Change
• Constant focus on the goal
• Collaborative working
• Flexibility
• Delegated decision making
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The Value of Being Agile
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$95,000 per second
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
0.5%
http://www.whereprojectsthrive.uk/
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Organisational Agile Project Management
Being Agile: two levels
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Within projects and programmes
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Projects are viruses
Agile Organisational Project
Management
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Agile Organisational Project
Management
A challenging landscape for Agile
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u5N00ApR_k
A video showing the challenges of being able to run an agile
project in an organisation that does not have a supportive
governance landscape for agile projects.
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Agile Organisational Project
Management
Organisation Culture
Vision
Strategy
Technology
ProcessPolicies
Values
Organisation
Rules
Behaviours
Symbols
Relationships
Perceptions
Beliefs
Assumptions
Unwritten
rules
Common practice
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Agile Organisational Project
Management
What needs to be overcome
Non-agile organisation culture
– Lack of flexibility
– Non-release of operational resources
– Lengthy decision making, e.g. change
– Resistance to Matrix working
– Top down governance
– Lack of Trust and empowerment
– Very risk averse – loathing of uncertainty
Gathering organisational anti-bodies to anything new in the culture
And some people simply get it wrong……
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Organisational agility normally stated in terms of changing markets
But what IS organisation agility?
– Trusted organisation
– Adaptive operating model – i.e. not too centralised
– Devolved governance
– P3 embedded in business operations
– Continuous learning is embedded
– Self-organising teams and people
– Collaborative culture
– Leadership tolerant of ambiguity
Agile Organisational Project
Management
What an agile culture and environment looks like
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Programme: Agile culture
IT project: Agile culture & Sprints
Other projects: Serial approach
Agile Organisational Project
Management
What an agile culture and environment looks like
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Being agile in projects
The wreckage of agile projects
But we’re agile…….
Silver bullet or poisoned apple?
Agile as the wrong tool
Agile head, but not heart – no agile mindset
Self-organisation leads to constant escalation
Fear / lack of confidence / lack of delegation
Taking the eye of the ball
Embracing Change without a design authority
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Being agile at two- levels: projects
What an agile project looks like
An Agile Project Manager stands back…hands off
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Timeboxing
Collaboration
Engagement
Purpose
Being agile at two- levels: projects
What an agile project looks like
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Being agile in projects
What an agile project looks like
An agile friendly landscape
An adaptive and flexible project manager
Collaboration
High level requirements – you have to be able to start somewhere
Prioritised requirements (Workstack / Product Backlog)
Lean decision making, e.g. for Changes
Document…..just enough
Constantly watches the bow wave
Constantly planning
Constantly learning
Constantly watching the sky ahead
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Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater
Re-combine and re-use
Avoiding the pitfalls:
Eric Abrahamson - Creative Recombination
people
networks (social not IT)
culture
processes
structure
Eric Abrahamson: Change Without Pain
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1. Increase urgency
Kotter’s 8 Step change model
2. Build guiding teams
3. Get the vision right
4. Communication for buy-in
5. Enable action
6. Create short-term wins
7. Don’t let up
8.Make it stick
Create a
Climate for
change
Engaging and
enabling the
organisation
Implementing and
sustaining change
Open Minds,
Make the Change,
Embed the Change
Avoiding the pitfalls
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Avoiding the pitfalls
Leadership must GET agile
Leadership to establish an agile friendly organisation
Persuade stakeholders so that they GET agile working
Define your goals for agile working
Determine how far agile needs to penetrate
Define who needs to be agile, and help them be so
Define how business processes need to change
Define what technology can help, and/or needs to change
Be an agile leader
People
ToolsProcess
Building an organisation fit for agile projects
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We were Agile
The pace of change and the value of being Agile
Being Agile at two levels
Agile Organisational Project management
Being Agile in projects and programmes
Avoiding the pitfalls
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1. Lead through inspiration, care and Trust
2. Open Minds, Make the Change, Embed the Change
3. Work with your environment
4. Understand what can stop you being successful
5. Know and communicate the purpose of the Change
6. Recombine and re-use
7. Prepare for delivery AND for operations.
8. Be flexible and adapt, e.g. plan, measure and adjust
9. Ensure people know what they are to do, where they fit and how
they can work
10. Build a confident and professional team
Adrian’s Tactics for Change
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