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PMI-MC Workshop 18 Oct 2013 | 11-12 pm ET

Transitioning to Agile Project and Program Management: Perspectives and Experiences Narayan Prasad, PMP, PMI-ACP ICF International Case Study: Agile in a Federal Program Support Environment Cory McConnell, PMP, PMI-ACP ICF International. PMI-MC Workshop 18 Oct 2013 | 11-12 pm ET.

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PMI-MC Workshop 18 Oct 2013 | 11-12 pm ET

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  1. Transitioning to Agile Project and Program Management: Perspectives and ExperiencesNarayan Prasad, PMP, PMI-ACPICF InternationalCase Study: Agile in a Federal Program Support EnvironmentCory McConnell, PMP, PMI-ACPICF International PMI-MC Workshop 18 Oct 2013 | 11-12 pm ET

  2. Narayan Prasad, PMP, PMI-ACP Over 20 years of extensive experience spanning program management, and full life-cycle systems development in both Federal and Commercial Environments. Directed professional services organizations, program management offices, and managed teams worldwide. Thought leadership in Agile project and program management, knowledge management, IT management/operations, and human capital solutions. Contact for questions or additional notes: Narayan.Prasad@icfi.com Oct 18, 2013

  3. Cory McConnell, PMP, PMI-ACP Seven years of experience spanning program management, knowledge management, and full life-cycle software development in primarily federal environments. Contact for questions or additional notes: Cory.McConnell@icfi.com Oct 18, 2013

  4. Transitioning to Agile Project and Program Management: Perspectives andExperiences Narayan Prasad Oct 18, 2013

  5. OMB Guidance and GAO Audit Results • OMB 25 Point Implementation Plan to Reform Federal Information Technology Management • GAO-12-681 – Effective Practices and Federal Challenges in Applying Agile Methods July 18, 2013

  6. Organizing for Agility - Challenges • Transitioning to Being Agile • Commitment and collaboration • Organizational/Structural • Cultural • Governance • Transforming for Agility • Approach can be different • Federal/Commercial Oct 18, 2013

  7. Making the Change to Agile: Reconstitute and Re-characterize Team Leadership • Servant Leadership • Adding Value • Encouraging Collaboration • Welcoming Change • Rightsizing • Collocating • Empowering • Self Organizing The Team • Let teams adopt methodology • Organize scrum of scrums • Facilitate retrospectives • Managing changing priorities • Alignment with strategy Agile PMO Oct 18, 2013

  8. Agile PMO - Services Perspective • Visioning • Feasibility and Assessment • Business Cases and Modeling • Product Visioning • Architecture Definition • Value Determination • Strategy • Alignment with Business • Project Prioritization and Selection • Agile Project Management • Facilitation and Stakeholder • Management • Release Planning • Facilitating Retrospectives • Organizing Scrum of Scrums • Projects ROI • Standardization • Enforcing Regulatory Adherence • Tools • Dashboards • Best Practices Metrics • Portfolio Management • Adaptive Governance • Sustainable Adoption • Portfolio Tracking • Running concurrent Agile • Projects • Transitioning • Methodology Transition • IPTs to Agile Teams • Business Process • Re-engineering • Process Improvement Oct 18, 2013

  9. Project Management and Governance Oct 18, 2013

  10. Opportunities • Get value sooner with greater ROI • Delivering early • Prioritizing features • Highest value features early • Be adaptable and embrace change • Agile welcomes and adapts to change • Become sustainable • User stories, team velocity, 2-4 week iterations • Improve continuously • Conduct regular retrospectives and make adjustments July 18, 2013

  11. Seizing Opportunities and Preparing to Practice… Develop Demonstrate Start organizing from a customer perspective Develop cross-functional teams around their capabilities Demonstrate value early and continuously to gain trust

  12. Other Key Considerations • Align contracting practices to suit modular approaches • OMB: “Contracting Guidance to Support Modular Development” • Create Flexible Funding Models – WCF, Franchise Funds • Use failures as learning tools – conduct periodic process reflections • On failed projects • lack of experience with agile methods (11%) • not understanding the broader organizational change required (11%). • Prepare to practice and share successes • Shared ownership, collaboration and leveraging skills July 18, 2013

  13. Case Study: Agile in a Federal Program Support Environment Cory McConnell Oct 18, 2013

  14. Our Mission Make this table share knowledge! Fed (See: glasses) Young Fed (See: military haircut) Engineer (See: beard) Retired Engineer (See: bowling shirt) Field Engineer (See: hard hat) July 18, 2013

  15. Problem July 18, 2013

  16. Training & Simplifying July 18, 2013

  17. The Outline July 18, 2013

  18. Communicating Change July 18, 2013

  19. The PMIS July 18, 2013

  20. Who Does What July 18, 2013

  21. Technical Lead Dashboard July 18, 2013

  22. Product Dashboard July 18, 2013

  23. Prioritization M = Must-Have L = Linear E = Exciter R = Reverse Q = Questionable I = Indifferent July 18, 2013

  24. Results July 18, 2013

  25. Questions July 18, 2013

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