1 Agile, PMI, and the PMBOK ® Guide Rory McCorkle, MBA Priya Sethuraman, MS Product Managers – Credentials 18 February 2012
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Agile, PMI, and the PMBOK® Guide
Rory McCorkle, MBAPriya Sethuraman, MSProduct Managers – Credentials 18 February 2012
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PMI in Summary•Global Non-Profit Professional Association
−More than 600,000 members and credential holders−260 chapters, 182 countries
•Global Standards −13 global standards−3 million+ PMBOK® Guide in circulation
•Credentials −6 major credentials, used worldwide ( PMP®
| CAPM® | PgMP® | PMI-RMP® | PMI-SP® | PMI-ACPSM)
•Professional and Market Research−Academic Accreditation Program and Market Research
•Advocate for Project Management excellence to−Business, government, NGOs, C-level executives−Local and regional audiences: chapter outreach
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PMI’s History with Agile• Congress presentations since 2004
– Dedicated Agile track North America Congress 2011
• SeminarsWorld® sessions since 2005• PMBOK® Guide 3rd & 4th edition references to iterative development
• Agile reference sources in PMI Marketplace
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PMI’s History with Agile• February 2011: PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) certification announced
• May 2011: PMI-ACP launched• January 2012: First class of 515 PMI-ACP credential holders awarded (59 from India)
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Usefulness of Agile project management to the organization• 71% of the respondents said Agile project management is valuable to their organization.
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PMI’s Agile Community of Practice• Open to all PMI members
• Has over 13,000 subscribers
DiscussionsWebinars
Ask the Community
BlogsWikis
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Traditional vs. Agile PMTraditional:• Plan what you expect to happen
Agile:Plan what you expect to happen with detail appropriate to the horizon
• Enforce that what happens is the same as what is planned– Directive management– Control, control, control• Use change control
to manage change– Change Control Board– Defect Management
“Control” is through inspection and adaptation– Reviews and Retrospectives
– Self-Organizing TeamsUse Agile practices to manage change:– Continuous feedback loops
– Iterative and incremental development
– Prioritized backlogs
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The mapping of PMBOK Guide practice to Agile practices courtesy of Michelle Sliger (Sliger Consulting) and her text Bridge to Agility
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Integration ManagementTraditio
nalProject Plan Development
Project Plan Execution
Direct, Manage, Monitor, Control
Integrated Change Control
AgileRelease and Iteration Planning
Iteration Work
Facilitate, Serve, Lead, CollaborateConstant
Feedback and a Ranked Backlog≈
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Scope ManagementTraditio
nalScope Definition
Create WBS
Scope Verification
Scope Change Control
AgileBacklog and
Planning Meetings
Release and Iteration Plans
(FBS)
Feature Acceptance
Constant Feedback and the Ranked
Backlog≈≈≈≈
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Scope ManagementAcceptance criteria for the feature is written on the back of the card. This is the basis for the test cases.
Passing test cases aren’t enough to indicate acceptance – the Product Owner must accept each story.
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Quality Management Traditional
Quality Planning
Quality Assurance
Quality Control
Agile
Definition of “Done”
QA involved from the beginning, and…
Reviews and Retrospectives
Test early and often; feature acceptance≈
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Risk Management Traditional
Risk Identification, Qualitative & Quantitative Analysis, Response Planning
Monitoring & Controlling
Agile
Iteration Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Metrics, and
Retrospectives
Daily Stand-ups and Highly Visible Information
Radiators
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Agile Framework Addresses Core Risks• Intrinsic schedule flaw (estimates that are wrong
and undoable from day one, often based on wishful thinking) Detailed estimation is done at the beginning of each iteration
• Specification breakdown (failure to achieve stakeholder consensus on what to build) Assignment of a product owner who owns the backlog of work
• Scope creep (additional requirements that inflate the initially accepted set) Change is expected and welcome, at the beginning of each iteration
• Personnel loss Self-organizing teams experience greater job satisfaction
• Productivity variation (difference between assumed and actual performance) Demos of working code every iteration
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Summary• Scope is defined at a granularity that is appropriate for the time horizon
• Scope is verified by the acceptance of each feature by the customer
• Work Breakdown Structures become Feature Breakdown Structures
• Gantt charts are not typically used; instead progress charts help us to track progress
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Summary• Test-driven development and cross-functional teams help to bring quality assurance and planning activities forward to the beginning of the project, and continue throughout the project
• Bugs are found and fixed in the iteration; features are then accepted by the customer
• The nature of agile framework allows core risks to be addressed by the team throughout the project