pmi africa – moving to incremental iterative approaches for enterprise programme management
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MOVING TO INCREMENTAL, ITERATIVE
APPROACHES FOR ENTERPRISE PROGRAMME
/ PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Sid Bwerinofa (PMP)
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WHAT WE WILL COVER
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Moving to incremental, iterative approaches for enterprise programme
/ project management
WHY MOVE? – REASON 1
WHY MOVE? – REASON 2
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WHY MOVE? – REASON 3
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of companies had an IT project fail in the last 12
months. Business leaders who blame IT are missing the
real project management issues.
A recent study reports that
WHY MOVE? – REASON 4
Change negative perception of projects
Harness growth opportunities in Africa
Tailor to Africa’s difference
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I BUY IT, BUT HOW? – BE LEAN
Key Principles
Adopt continuous
deployment/delivery
Deliver only the minimum viable
product
Use actionable metrics to
navigate by
Don't quit - pivot
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Feedback
Respect
Courage
Simplicity
Communication
I BUY IT, BUT HOW? – BE AGILE
Multi-functional teams over
silos• Servant leadership
• T-shaped people
Value! Value! Value!
It’s about the customer,
stupid!
Hard conversations• Good news merchants
OUR EXPERIENCE
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Consultingfor 20 years
Realised that customers
demanded change quicker
Went agile – failed
Relooked at change for us and them
Went agile again –
passed
Continue to tailor approach to
match maturity of organisations
Fail fast, succeed faster
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I BUY IT, BUT HOW? – BE AGILE
and anticipate that by 2018, more than
Gartner surveys indicate that
of projects today are agile
of projects will utilise agile
development
Gartner, Predicts 2015: Application Services Continue to Move Toward Business Outcomes and
Speed to Results Through Changes in Delivery Models, Twiggy Lo, Patrick J. Sullivan, Frances
Karamouzis, Alex Soejarto, Susanne Matson, Gilbert van der Heiden, Susan Tan, 18 November
2014
WHAT CAN YOU DO?
Identify your gaps• Find a small project to
start with
– Customer facing
– Uncertain
requirements
– New technology
– Not core system
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ADKAR
Identify your product owner
Agree what incremental looks like
A CHALLENGE
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YOU are the drivers
of Africa’s change
Be the change that you
want to see
Deliver change effectively
Forget moving, rather
move now
