agile delivery- elevating the role of the pm to trusted advisor
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Agile Delivery
Elevating the role of the PM to Trusted Advisor
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Adrian Moise, CEO
UBISoft, Electronic Arts, Microsoft,
Blast Radius, iQMetrix
Su Ning Strube, VP,
Business Strategy
HootSuite, Vision Critical, Blast
Radius, Sierra Systems
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Presenters
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Agenda
① Common Obstacles
② Root cause
③ Solutions
④ Impact
⑤ Discussion
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Aequilibrium empowers businesses to
use technology to bring meaningful
impact to the world.
About Aequilibrium
Our clients
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What is your definition of Agile?
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Agile Development Process
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What are some of
biggest challenges
in managing
an agile project?
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“Why isn’t it finished?”
“When will it be done?”
“What am I approving?”
“I need to see all of these
features!”
“Who’s responsible for User
Acceptance Testing?”
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Client Concerns
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“Why can’t you just build it?!”
“I’ve done Agile a million times.”
“I don’t know what I want, but I
know how to get it.”
“I tried Agile and did not really
like it.”
“Why so many meetings?
• Receiving client
acceptance/approval
• Fixed priced projects
• Understanding agile approach
• Identifying product owner
• Establishing a completion/launch
date
• Being bias by previous waterfall
experience
• Geographically distributed teams
• Getting the team to commit to
complete what they’ve promised
• Understanding incremental build
process and business value
• Cultural differences across
resources
• Definition of “Done-Done”
• Project metrics and reporting
• Accountability of Product Owner
• Changing stories of an iteration
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Common Obstacles/Challenges
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1. Start by getting
everyone aligned
on the Agile roles,
process and tools
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Agile is faster and cheaper.
Agile requires less time from the client.
Agile requires no documentation.
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Perceptions about Agile
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Perceptions Actual
Agile is faster and cheaper
Agile requires less time
from the client
Agile requires no
documentation
Agile focuses on quality and
business value
Agile requires active and
ongoing participation from
client
Agile requires “just enough”
documentation
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Establish
common
baseline and
terminology
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Formalize
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One-on-one
“peer” coaching
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Identify and
understand roles &
responsibilities
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Establish
reporting metrics
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2. Use a methodology that works
for your context
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Agile is not
always the
right way
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Hybrid
methods
may be
required
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Vertical slices of functionality
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Defining a M.V.P.
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3. Ensure ongoing, engaged and
active participation from Product
Owner
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Recognize
importance of
role and coach
the individual
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Ensure availability and
accountability to
communicate and
prioritize requirements
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Define strategies and tactics to build
product roadmap that drives
business value
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Agile Development Process
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So how does this relate to setting expectations with
clients?
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1. Empower the product owner
2. Build towards MVP and continuously adapt to get
the most business value
3. Share insights and meaningful metrics and act on
them to improve product outcomes
4. Tailor the methodology and pace
…resulting in alignment and transparency.
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