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Agile Project Management:Running PRINCE2 projects with DSDM Atern

*Keith RichardsDirectorKeith Richards Consulting

Company

Profile

• UK based training and consultancy

company

• Specialising in agile project

management

• PRINCE2 and DSDM

• Facilitation

• APMG: pm4success - Agile SIG chair

• www.keithrichardsconsulting.co.uk

Speaker

Profile

• Keith Richards

• Process/Method Consultant

• DSDM Director, Trainer and

Practitioner

• PRINCE2 Trainer and Practitioner

• Accredited Facilitator (IAF/CPF)

• Technical Lead for DSDM Atern

Presentation

Structure

• PRINCE2 and agile

• DSDM Atern overview

• Benefits for PRINCE2

• Benefits for DSDM Atern and agile

• Conclusion

• Further information

What is an

‘agile’

project?

• Responsive to change

• Scope tolerant

• Collaborative

• Iterative

• On time

• Built incrementally

The new

wave

The ‘method spectrum’

Predictive Convergent Emergent

Is PRINCE2

agile?

• It doesn’t look agile but it can be

- Waterfall? - Document driven? - TCQ?

• Does it need to be agile?

• Yes – but don’t try and fix it

• Don’t reinvent the wheel - use DSDM

Atern

What is in

DSDM?

Agile

Thinking

The

principles

of DSDM

Atern1. Focus on the business need

2. Deliver on time

3. Collaborate

4. Never compromise quality

5. Develop iteratively

6. Build incrementally from firm foundations

7. Communicate continuously and clearly

8. Demonstrate control

DSDM

Atern

Lifecycle

PRINCE2

and DSDM:

integration

• Includes product delivery

- ‘coalface’ roles and responsibilities

• Creates an agile ethos

- Collaboration - Embracing change

• Supports iteration

• Allows scope tolerance - TCQF

• Introduces timeboxing and MoSCoW

• Promotes facilitated workshops

• Enables rich communication

Benefits of

the

marriage

Benefits

for

agile• The acceptable face of agile

- Senior management comfort factor

• Scalability

- ‘Scalagility’

• Strong governance where appropriate

• Enables agile?

Conclusion

• PRINCE2 and DSDM Atern are

complementary

• Public domain

• Same stable

• They dovetail enabling easy integration

• It represents a balanced approach

Further

Informatio

n• www.pm4success.com

- APMG Agile SIG

• www.dsdm.org

- DSDM Atern – free to use, free to view

• Agile Project Management: running

PRINCE2

projects with DSDM Atern - Keith Richards –

TSO

Questions?Thank you!