The Agile Project Manager

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The Agile Project Manager

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Jose Barato

• PMPeople

(Managing Director)

• PMI Madrid Chapter

(Director)

• PM-IB

(founder, Vice-President)

• TALAIA, OpenPPM

(Consultant)

• Project Manager (PMP®, PMI-ACP

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• Instructor, coach

• Speaker, author

Consulting, Training and Tools in Project Management

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Agenda

• The traditional way

• The agile way

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The Traditional Way

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The Agile Paradigm

Value

Driven

Plan

Driven

Scope

Schedule

Cost

Schedule

Cost

Predictive Process

(Waterfall)

Adaptive Process

(Agile)

Constraints

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Some Agile Educational Videos

1. Product Owner en la práctica (7’30”)

2. Daily Standup en la práctica (4’30”)

3. Agile Product Ownership in a Nutshell (16’)

4. A dysfunctional daily stand-up (11’)

5. I want to run an agile project part I (10’)

6. I want to run an agile project part II (7’)

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The Agile Manifesto 2001

The Manifesto’s shared value statement:

“We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and

helping others do it. Through this work we have come to value:

Individuals & interactions

Over

Processes & Tools

Working Software

Over

Comprehensive Documentation

Customer Collaboration

Over

Contract Negotiation

Responding to Change

Over

Following a Plan

“That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value

the items on the left more.”

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The Scrum Way

Product

Backlog

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Agile Methodologies

(Release planning, Sprint

and iteration planning,

daily Scrum, sprint demo

and retrospective, etc.)

(TDD, automated

testing, continuous

integration,

refactoring, etc.)

Strict queue limits,

pull value through,

make it visible.

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The Agile Methodology

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The 3 Scrum Roles

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Agile Artifact – Product Backlog

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Product backlog

: prioritized list of desired

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Agile Practice – Timeboxing

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Agile Artifact – Sprint Backlog

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Sprint backlog

: set of deliverables from the product backlog that the

team agrees to complete in a sprint usually broken into work items

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Agile Practice – Planning Poker

Fibonacci

Example:

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The 4 Agile Ceremonies

1. Iteration Planning

3. Iteration Review

3

5

8

3

2

8

2

1

3

1

• Create UI (5 hrs)

• Code, unit test validation logic (3 hrs)

• User acceptance testing (2 hrs)

Sprint Backlog

4. Retrospective

Product

Backlog

What did I complete yesterday?

What am I working on today?

What is slowing me down?

Worked well

Needs improvement

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Release Burndown (1/2)

Accuracy from

3rd iteration

onwards

12 weeks

20 weeks

• Original Size: 132 story points

• IT1: 18 story points

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Release Burndown (2/2)

• Iteration Review IT1: 16/18

• Iteration Planning IT2: 18 points, 3 stories

• Iteration Review IT2: 18/18

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Agile Practice –

Progressive Elaboration

Release Plan

Close

Out

Release 1

Release 2

Release 3

Release 4

iterations

Release Plan

Upfront

Planning

Close

Out

Release 2

Release 3

Release 4

iterations

completely planned

partially planned

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Agile Practice –

Progressive Elaboration

1 Strategic Planning

Strategic Planning by Executive Leaders

2 Portfolio Planning

Portfolio Planning by Customer Unit

Product Planning by Product Managers

3 Product Planning

Release Planning by Product Owner/Team

4 Release Planning

Iteration Planning by Team/PO

5 Iteration Planning

6 Daily Planning

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The Agile Project Manager

Stakeholders

Project

Sponsor

Product

Owner

Scrum

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Servant Leadership

− What is this?

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