just when you thought you were a complete pm, you’re not · 2020-01-06 · internationally...
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Just when you thought you were a complete PM, you’re not
Guy Eastoe
• The Waterfall to Agile challenge
• Why PM’s need therapy
• My story
• What attributes we need to develop as coping mechanisms
The Waterfall to Agile challenge
• Tiered hierarchy’s create silo’s of independent, selfish islands
• Gates embed the design and the plan way to early. BDUF
• Status quo bias
Why PM’s need therapy
• So many flavours, like Lean programming, Agile PM, Prince2 Agile, Crystal, Safe, DSDM, LeSS (Large Scale Scrum)
• So many Principles so badly applied, even great ones like:
• e.g. “Simplicity--the art of maximizing the amount of work not done--is essential”
• 3 general categories:• Waterfall Anonymous
• Agile Anonymous.
• Wagile Anonymous.
My story
Many learnings
• If companies can’t make waterfall work, they won’t make Agile work
• The difference between an iteration and an increment, and here’s a slide for the WA’s amongst you.
Increment
Image source: Jeff Patton
Incremental calls for a fully formed idea.
So requires accurate estimation.
Iteration
Iterating from vague idea to
realization allows for learning and
adjustment along the way.
What attributes we need for the agile future
Right brains must dominate.
• Design over pure function
• Story’s over arguments
• Symphony, or synthesis over analysis
• Empathy over logic
• Play over seriousness
• Meaning over material accumulation.
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