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Agile Methods

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Your Host

Todd W. RuoppA speaker, facilitator and coach

who promotes understandingand integrated teamwork

Co-founder & President ofUnleashing Performance, Inc.™

Todd empowers professionals

to develop the knowledge & abilityto drive personal, professional

and organizational growth.

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Today’s Guest

John Goodpasture, PMPProgram manager, system engineer,

author and coach

Managing Principal of

Square Peg Consulting, LLC

John specializes in applying technologyacross a broad spectrum to achieve

business goals.

www.sqpegconsulting.com

Author of

Quantitative Methods in Project Management (2003)

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John’s new book

• Agile in the enterprise

• Multiple methodologiesthoroughly explained

• From business case

to benefit capture

PUBLISHED BY J. ROSS PUBLISHING



What do you say to those

waiting to see the benefitsof agile methods?



Agile works!And it works really well



Essential Points



Leadership & Management

Drives real time decision making

Matches short agile cycles

Inspires & compels action

Attracts beneficiaries

1 “People are led;

things are managed”

Rear Admiral Grace Hopper

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Embrace change — rather than fight it

Accept incrementalprogress and results

Respect short delivery cycles

Keep value proposition

current and relevant

Leadership & Management

1



Orient best value to the customer or end-user

Deliver the most bang as seen through the customer’s eyes

Best Value Method

2



3

Deliver frequently & incrementally

Respect urgency and the importanceconveyed by the customer

Frequent & Incremental



No big bangat the end



Six to twelve people

Self-managed

Performance oriented

Small Teams

4



Focus relentlessly on outcomes, not activitiesKnock down barriers to team success

Communicate to sponsor and beneficiaries

Coach for success

5



Drive innovation

Convey a compelling mission tied to an inspirational goal

Be current, relevant, and involved

Leadership



In touch with the cycle time of agile

Be an involved visionary

Keep up with incremental success

Be aware of market reaction

Leadership Success



Management

Manage accordingto feedback fromeach deliverable

Feedback drives change

Expect that planned

outcomes will change

Accept that requirementscannot be known wellenough in the beginning



Communicate

OrganizeMeasure

Coach



Clear Obstacles

Coach intra-team behavior

Make it safe for the project nemesis

Management



Safety is most important

Team members must attack problems, not each other

It must be safe to speak and act to break up group think

Safety



Leadership makesthe project compelling

Management makes it practical

Team work makes it possible



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Todd W. Ruopp

Unleashing Performance, Inc.

Today’s Guest

John Goodpasture, PMP

Square Peg Consulting, LLC



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