This document describes the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) which is a framework for implementing agile development practices at the enterprise level. It discusses how SAFe addresses the limitations of traditional waterfall development and scales agile to meet the needs of large projects. SAFe incorporates key lean principles and consists of three levels - Team, Program, and Portfolio. At each level it defines roles and practices for planning, prioritizing work, and delivering value in short iterations. The goal of SAFe is to synchronize collaboration across many agile teams to continuously and predictably deliver working software.
The document discusses how an innovation program at Tata Consultancy Services adopted Agile project management methodology to address issues they were facing. Some key problems prior to adopting Agile included frequent changes to delivery targets, spending too much time on requirements and design upfront, lack of transparency, and escalated issues. By introducing Agile with support from senior management, establishing user stories and sprints, and increasing transparency, the program benefited from improved planning, early feedback, on-time delivery, and quality.
This document discusses how process excellence can be achieved through the Agile methodology and Time and Material (T&M) estimation model. It explains that Agile allows for flexible development through short sprints and T&M allows clients to participate in and monitor development while controlling costs. Combining Agile and T&M allows clients to provide feedback and request changes iteratively, while developers track time spent to bill clients accurately.
The document discusses how fusing aspects of traditional waterfall project management and agile methodologies can improve the chances of project success, especially for large upgrade or migration projects. It provides examples of different "fusion approaches", such as using waterfall delivery within agile iterations or applying agile execution techniques within a waterfall framework. The success of a fusion approach depends on variables like organizational culture, risk appetite, and governance structures. When applied appropriately, a fusion model can help complete projects on time and budget while minimizing risks.
This document discusses implementing a "process way of life" culture within an organization. It involves three key steps:
1) Enabling people through fun and interactive training to increase process awareness. This helps ensure the right data enters systems.
2) Implementing common metrics and a single project management tool so internal and customer reporting is streamlined. This provides immediate feedback.
3) Recognizing and rewarding "process champions" and best practices to motivate adherence to processes and spread positive messages.
Benefits included more predictable project management, improved metrics, and effort/metrics being reported without reminders. The approach helped establish a consistent process culture.
The document discusses using an agile approach called Hybrid ASAP methodology for SAP implementations to overcome the limitations of the traditional waterfall approach. Hybrid ASAP combines aspects of ASAP methodology and agile methods like Scrum. It involves dividing the project team into smaller groups to work in parallel sprints. An initial product backlog is created using SAP accelerators and baseline builds. Then a lean business blueprint is made along with a release plan. Multiple sprints are conducted with dynamic updates to the product backlog at each sprint completion to deliver incremental working software. This allows for faster deployment, reduced risks and improved customer satisfaction over the traditional waterfall approach.
Presentation by sathish nataraj sundararajanPMI_IREP_TP
This document discusses process excellence for new age project management. It describes tools like Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP), target cost matching, target cost approach curve, point of no return (PONR), ABC analysis, and characteristic management that can be used to enhance the planning, steering, and reporting of projects. These tools help structure project management by aiding in planning, tracking project timelines and costs against targets, prioritizing parts, and ensuring all requirements are met. Using such tools in a standardized way across a company brings transparency and helps complete projects on time and on budget.
This document outlines 10 commandments or principles for project success based on the concepts of mind, body, and soul. It begins with an introduction to the topic and definitions of key terms. It then describes 3 cardinal rules for project teams based on mind, body, and soul. The rest of the document outlines each of the 10 commandments for project success and discusses challenges in implementing them. For each commandment, it provides solutions categorized as knowledge/mind, action/body, and soul. The commandments focus on areas like scope management, cost estimation, team development, risk management, use of quality tools, and project monitoring and control.
This document discusses Project Management as a Service (PMAAS), an innovative approach to managing project management phases and processes through a cloud of project management consultants working on an agile platform. Under PMAAS, individual project management phases and processes are managed independently by cloud-based consultants. Each phase acts as an agile sprint, with information from one phase feeding into the next. This gives project managers visibility while keeping project intricacies abstracted. The concept originated from challenges organizations face developing in-house project management capabilities. PMAAS provides a cost-effective cloud-based solution for managing projects.
The document discusses how an innovation program at Tata Consultancy Services adopted Agile project management methodology to address issues they were facing. Some key problems prior to adopting Agile included frequent changes to delivery targets, spending too much time on requirements and design upfront, lack of transparency, and escalated issues. By introducing Agile with support from senior management, establishing user stories and sprints, and increasing transparency, the program benefited from improved planning, early feedback, on-time delivery, and quality.
This document discusses how process excellence can be achieved through the Agile methodology and Time and Material (T&M) estimation model. It explains that Agile allows for flexible development through short sprints and T&M allows clients to participate in and monitor development while controlling costs. Combining Agile and T&M allows clients to provide feedback and request changes iteratively, while developers track time spent to bill clients accurately.
The document discusses how fusing aspects of traditional waterfall project management and agile methodologies can improve the chances of project success, especially for large upgrade or migration projects. It provides examples of different "fusion approaches", such as using waterfall delivery within agile iterations or applying agile execution techniques within a waterfall framework. The success of a fusion approach depends on variables like organizational culture, risk appetite, and governance structures. When applied appropriately, a fusion model can help complete projects on time and budget while minimizing risks.
This document discusses implementing a "process way of life" culture within an organization. It involves three key steps:
1) Enabling people through fun and interactive training to increase process awareness. This helps ensure the right data enters systems.
2) Implementing common metrics and a single project management tool so internal and customer reporting is streamlined. This provides immediate feedback.
3) Recognizing and rewarding "process champions" and best practices to motivate adherence to processes and spread positive messages.
Benefits included more predictable project management, improved metrics, and effort/metrics being reported without reminders. The approach helped establish a consistent process culture.
The document discusses using an agile approach called Hybrid ASAP methodology for SAP implementations to overcome the limitations of the traditional waterfall approach. Hybrid ASAP combines aspects of ASAP methodology and agile methods like Scrum. It involves dividing the project team into smaller groups to work in parallel sprints. An initial product backlog is created using SAP accelerators and baseline builds. Then a lean business blueprint is made along with a release plan. Multiple sprints are conducted with dynamic updates to the product backlog at each sprint completion to deliver incremental working software. This allows for faster deployment, reduced risks and improved customer satisfaction over the traditional waterfall approach.
Presentation by sathish nataraj sundararajanPMI_IREP_TP
This document discusses process excellence for new age project management. It describes tools like Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP), target cost matching, target cost approach curve, point of no return (PONR), ABC analysis, and characteristic management that can be used to enhance the planning, steering, and reporting of projects. These tools help structure project management by aiding in planning, tracking project timelines and costs against targets, prioritizing parts, and ensuring all requirements are met. Using such tools in a standardized way across a company brings transparency and helps complete projects on time and on budget.
This document outlines 10 commandments or principles for project success based on the concepts of mind, body, and soul. It begins with an introduction to the topic and definitions of key terms. It then describes 3 cardinal rules for project teams based on mind, body, and soul. The rest of the document outlines each of the 10 commandments for project success and discusses challenges in implementing them. For each commandment, it provides solutions categorized as knowledge/mind, action/body, and soul. The commandments focus on areas like scope management, cost estimation, team development, risk management, use of quality tools, and project monitoring and control.
This document discusses Project Management as a Service (PMAAS), an innovative approach to managing project management phases and processes through a cloud of project management consultants working on an agile platform. Under PMAAS, individual project management phases and processes are managed independently by cloud-based consultants. Each phase acts as an agile sprint, with information from one phase feeding into the next. This gives project managers visibility while keeping project intricacies abstracted. The concept originated from challenges organizations face developing in-house project management capabilities. PMAAS provides a cost-effective cloud-based solution for managing projects.
The document discusses how project managers can leverage recent advances in psychology to better manage human aspects of projects. It provides a framework for applying concepts from evidence-based psychology, positive psychology, and organizational psychology across the project lifecycle. The framework identifies common project management challenges and shows how psychological solutions like focusing on process over results, breaking work into small tasks, and praising effort over talent can address issues around negotiation, team motivation, and performance. The document advocates using a scientific, evidence-based approach to incorporate psychology into project management.
This document discusses applying innovative models and theories to project management. It describes four main innovative concepts: TRIZ, morphological analysis, system concept-knowledge theory, and the method of focal objects. TRIZ involves analyzing patents to identify common inventive principles to solve problems and eliminate conflicts. Morphological analysis works backwards from outcomes to components rather than vice versa. The document argues that using these innovative models in project modeling software could provide more solution options to meet client objectives compared to current practices.
The document discusses building a sustainable customer advocacy program. It recommends starting with identifying requirements, forming a program team, and creating a responsibility matrix. The process then focuses on delivering a tailored program to drive new customer acquisitions by shortlisting strong advocates and creating an advocacy messaging framework and outreach program. The final step is creating a tracker to monitor process efficiency and effectiveness against key performance indicators. Implementing this approach can significantly increase customer loyalty and give a competitive advantage.
The document describes Concept Prototyping on PMAAS Suite (CPOPS), an approach for managing entrepreneurial projects. CPOPS leverages a Project Management as a Service (PMAAS) framework to prototype concepts and manage project phases in a cost-effective way with minimal risk. Each phase follows an agile methodology and waterfall model to clarify requirements and release components incrementally. CPOPS allows tasks to be prioritized flexibly in the cloud. The approach aims to help entrepreneurs focus on their business while cloud consultants efficiently manage project work.
The document describes a skill-based predictive model for talent forecasting developed by Piyush Jain and Vinay Prabhu of Infosys. It outlines the shortcomings of traditional talent forecasting models, which focus on overall headcount needs rather than skill utilization. The authors propose a model incorporating a talent skill repository and input/derived parameters for each skill. This allows for more accurate forecasting of skill needs and utilization over time, helping optimize talent acquisition costs and utilization levels.
This document discusses approaches to implementing agile project management processes for distributed teams across multiple locations. It describes two case studies where distributed agile was successfully used. In the first case study, agile allowed for more frequent releases, reduced defects, and leveraged global talent. Best practices like daily stand-ups, estimation games, and tools like JIRA were used. The second case study involved a larger team across more locations developing mobile apps. Specialized teams and automated processes in tools allowed complex work to be completed successfully using distributed agile. Both cases saw benefits like improved velocity, faster turnaround, and time to market.
The document discusses implementing an agile methodology on a project at Atos India while maintaining CMMI compliance. It describes challenges with a fresh, distributed team and how the company customized agile practices like adding two scrum masters, documentation standards, and mandatory pair programming. Metrics showed improved quality, reduced rework and schedule variance after adopting this blended agile-CMMI approach. A survey found the team benefited from better communication, collaboration and early problem identification. The customized process was added to Atos' global standards to provide benefits of both agile and CMMI frameworks.
This document provides an overview of developing a stakeholder management system for large infrastructure projects. It discusses identifying stakeholders, analyzing them to determine their power/interests, and assessing their current engagement levels. The document then outlines developing stakeholder management plans with engagement strategies. These strategies aim to keep supporters engaged, neutralize sceptics, decrease negative impacts, and raise interest of disinterested stakeholders over the project life. The overall goal is an effective system to ensure stakeholder support and participation for project success.
This document discusses conducting a sensitivity analysis on a proposed investment to install power savers on street lights along a road project to reduce energy costs. It analyzed two alternatives: installing power savers on the existing sodium vapor lamps, or replacing them entirely with LED lights. Field tests showed power savers could reduce energy usage by 25%. A financial model evaluated funding options and found debt financing in phases for one package and full debt financing for the other package yielded the highest returns. Sensitivity analysis showed the investment was not highly sensitive to cost increases up to 50% but could become unprofitable if the remaining concession period was reduced by over 28%. The proposal was concluded to improve profits but was not implemented due to time and cost constraints.
This document describes a statistical model created by Tata Consultancy Services to predict customer satisfaction levels. The model was built using data from 3000 customer projects where satisfaction decreased. It identifies factors that influence satisfaction positively or negatively. The model enables project managers to proactively monitor key factors, assess potential satisfaction impacts, and take action to improve outcomes. It has been implemented digitally and is helping the organization significantly improve customer satisfaction levels across many projects.
This document discusses best practices for improving efficiency in distributed agile teams. It addresses common challenges such as limited time zone overlap, availability of stakeholders, and cultural differences. Some strategies proposed include daily video meetings to improve communication, assigning pseudo product owners at off-site locations to provide quick clarifications, and involving off-site teams in sprint planning and reviews to increase engagement. Recording important meetings allows off-site teams to review discussions later. Practices like these aim to enhance collaboration and trust between distributed scrum teams.
This document discusses a case study of a 200-bed additional ward block project at an LD Hospital in Srinagar, India. It was a 48-month project with a budget of 31.07 crore INR (5.175 million USD). The document discusses some of the challenges faced in the project related to disconnect between stakeholders, missing change control processes, and lopsided budgets due to inadequate project definition in the early stages. It emphasizes the importance of entrepreneurial project management approaches and using a stage gate methodology to help address such challenges and ensure project success.
This document describes a Deployment Excellence Framework (DEF) to effectively adopt high maturity processes. The framework includes 3 interlinked cycles: 1) Identification Cycle to target initial units and stakeholders, 2) Initial Deployment Cycle focusing on awareness and success indicators, and 3) Sustenance Cycle increasing adoption scope and self-reliance. It also includes a feedback adapter for course correction. The case study illustrates using DEF to standardize an organization's project estimation processes and templates by deploying new estimation models and tools over 6 quarters.
This document discusses using Central Composite Design (CCD), a statistical optimization technique, to set goals for reducing tickets and costs in a Run the Business (RTB) project for a retail banking customer. CCD was used to analyze historical data and determine that 50% ticket reduction and $0.5 million cost savings were achievable goals for 2013. The Causal Analysis and Resolution process area of the CMMI framework was then used to prioritize and address root causes in order to achieve the ticket reduction goal.
The document describes a cloud-based project management tool called Unleash that allows for a hybrid approach to project management combining elements of agile and waterfall methodologies. Unleash allows teams to manage projects, programs, portfolios and products on the cloud. It also facilitates collaboration and creation of an environment where teams can emphasize faster product creation using a mix of agile and waterfall techniques as needed. The authors contend this approach allows for better results than using the traditional methods alone. It provides flexibility to use either approach and adjust the level of agility during a project as required.
The document discusses causes of delay in the erection of power transformers in India. It identifies 18 causes of delay which are categorized into 5 groups: internal, external, planning, contractor/vendor, and transportation/packaging. Common delays include material damage during transit, poor storage areas, rework activities, and lack of resources. Addressing three key delays - material damage, rework, and security issues - could save around 40% of delay time and 200,000 INR per site. Proper planning and adherence to quality processes are recommended to avoid delays and their impacts on costs, customer satisfaction, and safety.
The document discusses ways an offshore team improved engagement and ownership of a software project. The team increased communication, implemented regular status reporting, and delegated resources onsite. These changes built trust with partners and improved predictability. As a result, the offshore team took on more work, delivered additional features ahead of schedule, and received very positive feedback and requests for more offshoring from partners. However, challenges around testing automation, buffer management, and continuous learning remain.
The document discusses using social networks in project management. It describes how social networks can provide benefits like increased business value, better stakeholder engagement, and improved collaboration for virtual teams. The document outlines how social networks can be applied to various project management areas such as scope definition, communications, collaboration, and risk management. It also provides examples of how tools like Twitter can facilitate project communications and information sharing through features like tweets, hashtags, and lists. Finally, the document discusses considerations for implementing social networks in projects, including training teams and defining rules for privacy and content management.
Managing Business Analysis for Agile DevelopmentIJMER
This document discusses the impact of agile development methodologies on the role of business analysts. It explains that in agile projects, requirements are defined collaboratively by business analysts, developers, testers and product owners working together incrementally. The business analyst facilitates discussions to help translate user needs into technical requirements. Some new skills required for business analysts in agile include facilitation, coaching and writing user stories. The document also discusses how business analysts can help transition conventional projects to more agile approaches.
This document discusses mantras for innovative project management and creating a happy workforce for software/IT project managers. It analyzes common aspirations of young Indian IT professionals, such as work-life balance, new learning opportunities, and challenging roles. The document proposes that project managers can increase worker happiness and productivity by helping fulfill these aspirations. It presents frameworks for understanding individual aspirations, including an aspiration pyramid with work-life balance at the bottom and career growth aspirations like new learning and challenging roles at the top. The document also provides examples of project-level enablers a manager could implement to help team members achieve their aspirations.
This document describes an estimation framework developed by Tata Consultancy Services to standardize and improve the accuracy of software project estimations. The framework includes components for sizing, effort estimation, scheduling, resource planning, and costing. It also includes a decision matrix to select the appropriate estimation techniques and models based on project characteristics. Continuous feedback on actual project outcomes is used to refine the framework over time through a plan-do-check-act cycle. The framework aims to increase predictability in estimations and minimize risks from inaccurate estimates. A case study demonstrates how the framework was applied to a project.
This document discusses how successful program management can enable business transformation. It argues that adopting a partnership approach through effective communication and collaboration allows organizations to achieve desired outcomes. The key is applying basic principles like working as one team and enabling services. This includes orienting all stakeholders, norming teams, focused execution, achieving goals together, ensuring everyone contributes, and driving results beyond original targets. Cultural integration, leadership development, and enhanced communication further support the partnership approach. Staying relevant to all stakeholders through understanding their needs and challenges is also important for success. An example program increased market share, enhanced system capacity, realized cost savings, and grew new business volume through this structured approach.
The document discusses how project managers can leverage recent advances in psychology to better manage human aspects of projects. It provides a framework for applying concepts from evidence-based psychology, positive psychology, and organizational psychology across the project lifecycle. The framework identifies common project management challenges and shows how psychological solutions like focusing on process over results, breaking work into small tasks, and praising effort over talent can address issues around negotiation, team motivation, and performance. The document advocates using a scientific, evidence-based approach to incorporate psychology into project management.
This document discusses applying innovative models and theories to project management. It describes four main innovative concepts: TRIZ, morphological analysis, system concept-knowledge theory, and the method of focal objects. TRIZ involves analyzing patents to identify common inventive principles to solve problems and eliminate conflicts. Morphological analysis works backwards from outcomes to components rather than vice versa. The document argues that using these innovative models in project modeling software could provide more solution options to meet client objectives compared to current practices.
The document discusses building a sustainable customer advocacy program. It recommends starting with identifying requirements, forming a program team, and creating a responsibility matrix. The process then focuses on delivering a tailored program to drive new customer acquisitions by shortlisting strong advocates and creating an advocacy messaging framework and outreach program. The final step is creating a tracker to monitor process efficiency and effectiveness against key performance indicators. Implementing this approach can significantly increase customer loyalty and give a competitive advantage.
The document describes Concept Prototyping on PMAAS Suite (CPOPS), an approach for managing entrepreneurial projects. CPOPS leverages a Project Management as a Service (PMAAS) framework to prototype concepts and manage project phases in a cost-effective way with minimal risk. Each phase follows an agile methodology and waterfall model to clarify requirements and release components incrementally. CPOPS allows tasks to be prioritized flexibly in the cloud. The approach aims to help entrepreneurs focus on their business while cloud consultants efficiently manage project work.
The document describes a skill-based predictive model for talent forecasting developed by Piyush Jain and Vinay Prabhu of Infosys. It outlines the shortcomings of traditional talent forecasting models, which focus on overall headcount needs rather than skill utilization. The authors propose a model incorporating a talent skill repository and input/derived parameters for each skill. This allows for more accurate forecasting of skill needs and utilization over time, helping optimize talent acquisition costs and utilization levels.
This document discusses approaches to implementing agile project management processes for distributed teams across multiple locations. It describes two case studies where distributed agile was successfully used. In the first case study, agile allowed for more frequent releases, reduced defects, and leveraged global talent. Best practices like daily stand-ups, estimation games, and tools like JIRA were used. The second case study involved a larger team across more locations developing mobile apps. Specialized teams and automated processes in tools allowed complex work to be completed successfully using distributed agile. Both cases saw benefits like improved velocity, faster turnaround, and time to market.
The document discusses implementing an agile methodology on a project at Atos India while maintaining CMMI compliance. It describes challenges with a fresh, distributed team and how the company customized agile practices like adding two scrum masters, documentation standards, and mandatory pair programming. Metrics showed improved quality, reduced rework and schedule variance after adopting this blended agile-CMMI approach. A survey found the team benefited from better communication, collaboration and early problem identification. The customized process was added to Atos' global standards to provide benefits of both agile and CMMI frameworks.
This document provides an overview of developing a stakeholder management system for large infrastructure projects. It discusses identifying stakeholders, analyzing them to determine their power/interests, and assessing their current engagement levels. The document then outlines developing stakeholder management plans with engagement strategies. These strategies aim to keep supporters engaged, neutralize sceptics, decrease negative impacts, and raise interest of disinterested stakeholders over the project life. The overall goal is an effective system to ensure stakeholder support and participation for project success.
This document discusses conducting a sensitivity analysis on a proposed investment to install power savers on street lights along a road project to reduce energy costs. It analyzed two alternatives: installing power savers on the existing sodium vapor lamps, or replacing them entirely with LED lights. Field tests showed power savers could reduce energy usage by 25%. A financial model evaluated funding options and found debt financing in phases for one package and full debt financing for the other package yielded the highest returns. Sensitivity analysis showed the investment was not highly sensitive to cost increases up to 50% but could become unprofitable if the remaining concession period was reduced by over 28%. The proposal was concluded to improve profits but was not implemented due to time and cost constraints.
This document describes a statistical model created by Tata Consultancy Services to predict customer satisfaction levels. The model was built using data from 3000 customer projects where satisfaction decreased. It identifies factors that influence satisfaction positively or negatively. The model enables project managers to proactively monitor key factors, assess potential satisfaction impacts, and take action to improve outcomes. It has been implemented digitally and is helping the organization significantly improve customer satisfaction levels across many projects.
This document discusses best practices for improving efficiency in distributed agile teams. It addresses common challenges such as limited time zone overlap, availability of stakeholders, and cultural differences. Some strategies proposed include daily video meetings to improve communication, assigning pseudo product owners at off-site locations to provide quick clarifications, and involving off-site teams in sprint planning and reviews to increase engagement. Recording important meetings allows off-site teams to review discussions later. Practices like these aim to enhance collaboration and trust between distributed scrum teams.
This document discusses a case study of a 200-bed additional ward block project at an LD Hospital in Srinagar, India. It was a 48-month project with a budget of 31.07 crore INR (5.175 million USD). The document discusses some of the challenges faced in the project related to disconnect between stakeholders, missing change control processes, and lopsided budgets due to inadequate project definition in the early stages. It emphasizes the importance of entrepreneurial project management approaches and using a stage gate methodology to help address such challenges and ensure project success.
This document describes a Deployment Excellence Framework (DEF) to effectively adopt high maturity processes. The framework includes 3 interlinked cycles: 1) Identification Cycle to target initial units and stakeholders, 2) Initial Deployment Cycle focusing on awareness and success indicators, and 3) Sustenance Cycle increasing adoption scope and self-reliance. It also includes a feedback adapter for course correction. The case study illustrates using DEF to standardize an organization's project estimation processes and templates by deploying new estimation models and tools over 6 quarters.
This document discusses using Central Composite Design (CCD), a statistical optimization technique, to set goals for reducing tickets and costs in a Run the Business (RTB) project for a retail banking customer. CCD was used to analyze historical data and determine that 50% ticket reduction and $0.5 million cost savings were achievable goals for 2013. The Causal Analysis and Resolution process area of the CMMI framework was then used to prioritize and address root causes in order to achieve the ticket reduction goal.
The document describes a cloud-based project management tool called Unleash that allows for a hybrid approach to project management combining elements of agile and waterfall methodologies. Unleash allows teams to manage projects, programs, portfolios and products on the cloud. It also facilitates collaboration and creation of an environment where teams can emphasize faster product creation using a mix of agile and waterfall techniques as needed. The authors contend this approach allows for better results than using the traditional methods alone. It provides flexibility to use either approach and adjust the level of agility during a project as required.
The document discusses causes of delay in the erection of power transformers in India. It identifies 18 causes of delay which are categorized into 5 groups: internal, external, planning, contractor/vendor, and transportation/packaging. Common delays include material damage during transit, poor storage areas, rework activities, and lack of resources. Addressing three key delays - material damage, rework, and security issues - could save around 40% of delay time and 200,000 INR per site. Proper planning and adherence to quality processes are recommended to avoid delays and their impacts on costs, customer satisfaction, and safety.
The document discusses ways an offshore team improved engagement and ownership of a software project. The team increased communication, implemented regular status reporting, and delegated resources onsite. These changes built trust with partners and improved predictability. As a result, the offshore team took on more work, delivered additional features ahead of schedule, and received very positive feedback and requests for more offshoring from partners. However, challenges around testing automation, buffer management, and continuous learning remain.
The document discusses using social networks in project management. It describes how social networks can provide benefits like increased business value, better stakeholder engagement, and improved collaboration for virtual teams. The document outlines how social networks can be applied to various project management areas such as scope definition, communications, collaboration, and risk management. It also provides examples of how tools like Twitter can facilitate project communications and information sharing through features like tweets, hashtags, and lists. Finally, the document discusses considerations for implementing social networks in projects, including training teams and defining rules for privacy and content management.
Managing Business Analysis for Agile DevelopmentIJMER
This document discusses the impact of agile development methodologies on the role of business analysts. It explains that in agile projects, requirements are defined collaboratively by business analysts, developers, testers and product owners working together incrementally. The business analyst facilitates discussions to help translate user needs into technical requirements. Some new skills required for business analysts in agile include facilitation, coaching and writing user stories. The document also discusses how business analysts can help transition conventional projects to more agile approaches.
This document discusses mantras for innovative project management and creating a happy workforce for software/IT project managers. It analyzes common aspirations of young Indian IT professionals, such as work-life balance, new learning opportunities, and challenging roles. The document proposes that project managers can increase worker happiness and productivity by helping fulfill these aspirations. It presents frameworks for understanding individual aspirations, including an aspiration pyramid with work-life balance at the bottom and career growth aspirations like new learning and challenging roles at the top. The document also provides examples of project-level enablers a manager could implement to help team members achieve their aspirations.
This document describes an estimation framework developed by Tata Consultancy Services to standardize and improve the accuracy of software project estimations. The framework includes components for sizing, effort estimation, scheduling, resource planning, and costing. It also includes a decision matrix to select the appropriate estimation techniques and models based on project characteristics. Continuous feedback on actual project outcomes is used to refine the framework over time through a plan-do-check-act cycle. The framework aims to increase predictability in estimations and minimize risks from inaccurate estimates. A case study demonstrates how the framework was applied to a project.
This document discusses how successful program management can enable business transformation. It argues that adopting a partnership approach through effective communication and collaboration allows organizations to achieve desired outcomes. The key is applying basic principles like working as one team and enabling services. This includes orienting all stakeholders, norming teams, focused execution, achieving goals together, ensuring everyone contributes, and driving results beyond original targets. Cultural integration, leadership development, and enhanced communication further support the partnership approach. Staying relevant to all stakeholders through understanding their needs and challenges is also important for success. An example program increased market share, enhanced system capacity, realized cost savings, and grew new business volume through this structured approach.
1) The document discusses the need for predictable estimates in software projects to improve quality, costs, schedules, and profits. Inaccurate estimates can lead to project failures and losses of billions of dollars.
2) It presents TCS's solution of developing a standardized estimation framework to improve predictability. The framework includes techniques for sizing, effort, schedule, and cost estimation. It also includes guidelines for model selection and continuous improvement.
3) The framework was implemented at a large US financial corporation facing challenges like cost overruns, delays, and scrapped projects. After implementing the framework, the company saw improved predictability, productivity gains, and reductions in scrapped projects and costs.
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The document outlines a 5-step ethical decision-making framework presented by Alankar Karpe from PMI's Ethics Member Advisory Group. The 5 steps are: 1) assess all facts about the ethical issue, 2) consider all alternative choices, 3) identify impacts of the preferred choice, 4) apply ethical principles to the choice, and 5) make and take responsibility for the decision. The framework is intended to guide PMI members and credential holders in critically thinking through ethical dilemmas.
This document discusses challenges women face when re-entering the workforce after taking time off for family reasons. It covers the topic from multiple perspectives, including the woman's perspective on career continuity, the project manager perspective on project continuity, and economics of diversity in the workplace. The document also presents 5 case studies of different women attempting to re-enter the workforce and the challenges they face. It concludes by providing lessons for both working women and project managers on how to better manage re-entry into the workforce.
The document discusses a case study of implementing change management in a government R&D organization in India. The organization previously had a project-based structure but faced challenges like missed deadlines, duplication of work, and low customer satisfaction. It implemented a matrix structure with groups for design, development, testing, and implementation. This improved documentation, reuse of components, reduced defects and costs, and increased customer satisfaction. Key aspects of the successful change management included establishing urgency, building a dedicated team, empowering staff, and making the change permanent.
This document discusses using a "Localized Kanban" or "Locban" methodology to manage localization work for a product released in 31 languages simultaneously with each sprint release. Some of the key challenges addressed were uneven work distribution across sprints for the localization team, communicating schedule changes to multiple vendors, and lack of visibility. Locban adapted the Kanban methodology to create an online task board for the localization work, defining task attributes and states. This provided visualization of the workflow and allowed collaborative improvements to better manage the flow of localization work. Productivity gains were achieved using this approach.
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This document summarizes a case study of implementing change management in a government organization. It describes the challenges faced with the previous project-based structure, including frequent scope creep, missed deadlines, and lack of reuse between projects. The organization adopted Kotter's 8-step change management model and transitioned to a matrix structure with groups for design, development, testing, and implementation. This new structure improved collaboration, increased reuse of components, and reduced defects and costs. After implementation challenges were addressed, analysis found customer satisfaction increased while redundancy, rework, and costs decreased significantly compared to the previous project-based model.
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The document discusses uncertainty analysis in project proposals through milieu analysis. It presents that relational dimensions play an important role in winning proposals. Managing relationships and networks during the proposal lifecycle is crucial, as defined in PMBOK's stakeholder engagement process. The presentation evaluates proposals based on technical, financial, social and political dimensions. It concludes that every stakeholder has a key role in ensuring proposal quality and that pre-sales practices must facilitate defining project scopes by anticipating customer needs. Directions for future work include further articulating customer needs and differentiating technology strategies.
This document discusses women's empowerment and the challenges women face in achieving leadership positions. It proposes a new model to help more women succeed called the 3I model, which focuses on women imbibing lessons from experiences, innovating and applying new ideas, and inspiring others. It also discusses the EMI model which looks at how ready families (emotional quotient), societies (motivation quotient), and organizations (innovation quotient) are to support women leaders. Overall the document aims to analyze barriers facing women and provide a framework to help more women develop leadership skills and attain leadership roles.
This document discusses balancing creativity and business needs in managing research and development (R&D) projects. It proposes a six-step project management framework to effectively manage innovation given practical constraints of time and budget. While innovation is important for business success, creative ideas must be developed and commercialized through a structured process to realize benefits. The framework includes phases for concept generation, implementation and testing, and socialization and marketing to convert inventions into innovations. Managing innovation poses challenges as researchers prioritize novelty over processes, and their goals differ from engineers and marketers. An effective process acknowledges ideas evolve through an "innovation funnel" from unclear concepts to clear, commercialized products.
This white paper discusses two approaches for more effective project management: 1) A framework for proactively identifying and preventing defects in processes to avoid schedule delays. It involves examining processes end-to-end and getting stakeholder input to find bottlenecks. 2) An approach called "Building Blocks" to systematically capture organizational process knowledge and lessons learned from past projects in an easy-to-access database, including common risks and mitigation strategies for standard project components. The goal is to help project managers complete projects on time by giving them readily available knowledge about past process issues.
This document presents a framework for optimizing client expectations in project delivery. It defines key determinants of client expectations, including client outlook score, provider positioning, and execution quality. The framework assigns weights to these determinants and uses quantitative and qualitative analysis to calculate a client expectation ratio. This provides guidance to service providers on managing expectations across diverse clients and projects to ensure satisfaction and retention.
This document discusses tools and techniques for managing projects that have encountered difficulties and are at risk of failing. It provides two case studies as examples. The first case study describes a project that was 25% complete that was using a "big bang" approach across several countries. Early warning signs identified communication, team, and scope issues. The project was turned around by improving communication, quantifying scope changes, and better business/project alignment. The second case study describes a project 70% through time that faced significant technology challenges. Issues involved new technology, expanded scope, dispersed teams, and unaddressed risks. The project was salvaged by addressing these issues.
Social media, mobile devices, analytics and cloud computing (SMAC) have combined to create a technology ecosystem that supports project management. SMAC allows project managers to access information anytime from anywhere, collaborate more effectively with teams, and gain insights from analytics. While SMAC has benefits, successful adoption depends on factors like an organization's business model and culture. Project managers must redefine processes and best practices to leverage SMAC's value.
Introduction to Agile and Lean Software DevelopmentThanh Nguyen
The document provides an introduction to agile and lean software development. It discusses traditional vs agile development, defines agile as iterative and incremental using a plan-do-check-act approach with empowered cross-functional teams relying on automation. It covers the agile manifesto, principles and core practices including short iterations, deming's PDCA model, and the agile software development lifecycle. Lean concepts are introduced such as eliminating waste, amplifying learning, deciding late and delivering fast to empower teams and build integrity.
Top 50 Agile Interview Questions and Answers.pdfJazmine Brown
Top 50 Agile Interview Questions and Answers
Many organizations and businesses are taking notice of the agile technique. In today's world, it has become the benchmark for project management and software development. Various firms now use agile methodologies to offer high-value goods to their clients in the lowest amount of time.
In recent years, the agile technique has grown in popularity, and as a result, businesses have adopted it into their organizational structures. As a result, professionals with knowledge of agile are in high demand. As a result, you may have a lucrative career in this field.
These Agile interview questions and answers are great for you if you are planning to attend an agile interview and are preparing for one.
We hope that this post will familiarize you with some of the top agile interview questions that are most commonly raised in the interview. These flexible agile interview questions will improve your chances of passing your forthcoming interview.
50 top agile interview questions along with concrete answers
We have formulated the top agile interview questions and answers based on three different levels of entry into the profession along with scenario-based questions.
Beginner/Entry-Level Agile Interview questions and Answers
1. Explain agile methodology.
Agile methodology is a software development paradigm that emphasizes iterative and incremental development. The agile strategy is based on delivering a product in tiny operational increments or builds. Every program built is a better and more advanced version of the previous one. The development team and stakeholders are constantly collaborating on enhancements and changes in requirements.
Alternatively, we can describe the agile approach as the process of continuously providing functioning software while maintaining regular communication with stakeholders in order to ensure customer satisfaction.
2. How many types of Agile Methodologies are there? Enumerate them.
Agile Methodologies are classified into seven different types. They are:
• Scrum
• Kanban
• Extreme Programming
• Feature-Driven Development (FDD)
• Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM)
• Lean
• Crystal
3. What are the merits and demerits of the agile technique?
The following are some of the most noteworthy benefits of the agile methodology:
• Agile software development is one of the quickest and most flexible methodologies available.
• During the development phase, customers might adjust their needs at any time.
• It largely focuses on the software product's regular release. As a result, clients have the opportunity to see the product in its early stages of development.
• Customers have the option of providing comments on any working deliverable they receive.
• Because the development team focuses on creating a product that matches the customer's needs, this strategy ensures customer happiness.
• It focuses mostly on the product's good design.
Unveiling the Advantages of Agile Software Development.pdfbrainerhub1
Learn about Agile Software Development's advantages. Simplify your workflow to spur quicker innovation. Jump right in! We have also discussed the advantages.
The Many approaches and methodologies are available in the development of software with error free to its end user by fulfilling the values of stake-holders. Among the available methodologies Agile is a popular methodology which is introduced in 2001. Agile consists of various development processes such as Scrum, XP, Kanban, Lean and others. Among them Lean is one of the methodology in development of software domain which is adapted from Toyota Production System. This paper concentrates on how Lean sustains in the business stagnation because there exists some problems such as missing deadline, over development and ineffective management. Lean is having its own advantages and pitfalls. To overcome the pitfalls of Lean an adaptive approach is needed which may fit with existing industry standards.
Accelerating Business Growth with Agile Software Delivery.pdfSeasia Infotech
The customary approaches for software development have divided development and testing into two diverse steps- developers build a feature and the QA team tests it for defects.
Agile methodology involves iterative development and testing. It emphasizes incremental and evolutionary development by breaking projects into smaller pieces that are integrated for testing. Popular Agile frameworks include Scrum, Kanban, Extreme Programming, Crystal, Dynamic Systems Development Method, and Feature-Driven Development. The Agile Manifesto outlines core values and principles of Agile, including prioritizing individual/interactions over processes/tools and customer collaboration over contract negotiation.
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A project is a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product or service. Agile project management focuses on iterative development, self-organizing teams, early customer involvement and flexibility. Some key aspects of agile include continuous integration, iterations to develop features in short cycles, and pair programming where two developers work together.
The document discusses the benefits of adopting an agile approach to software development and project management. Some key benefits mentioned include faster time to market, increased productivity, fewer defects, cost savings, and better employee engagement. Adopting agile approaches allows organizations to build high-quality products that customers value more quickly by delivering in short iterations and incorporating frequent customer feedback. It also helps reduce risks and eliminate waste compared to traditional sequential development methods. Successfully implementing agile requires changes not just to development teams but also to organizational structures, processes, and culture.
Different Methodologies Used By Programming TeamsNicole Gomez
The document discusses different programming team methodologies including:
- System development life cycle (SDLC), which is used for large projects and includes waterfall models. It takes time but ensures high quality.
- Agile methodology, designed for small projects, combines methods for faster development that changes with customer needs.
- Extreme programming allows close communication between developers and customers so the software can change rapidly based on customer feedback.
Overall agile methodologies seem to have advantages over SDLC and extreme programming by allowing faster development that can change with customer desires.
Agile software development is a group of software development methods in which requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration between self-organizing, cross-functional teams. It promotes adaptive planning, evolutionary development, early delivery, continuous improvement, and encourages rapid and flexible response to change.
The Agile development model is also a type of Incremental model. Software is developed in incremental, rapid cycles. This results in small incremental releases with each release building on previous functionality. Each release is thoroughly tested to ensure software quality is maintained. It is used for time critical applications.
We know clients' demands drive product development, which is precisely why a custom software development company can't afford to let processes and documentation slow down their time to market. Agile comes to rescue in these times and helps solve the problem by determining what clients need. It's all about working software over complicated documentation, getting stakeholders involved, getting customers on board, and being transparent about the process.
Mapping of traditional software development methods to agile methodologycsandit
Agility is bringing in responsibility and ownership in individuals, which will eventually bring
out effectiveness and efficiency in deliverables. Companies are drifting from traditional
Software Development Life Cycle models to Agile Environment for the purpose of attaining
quality and for the sake of saving cost and time. In Traditional models, life cycle is properly
defined and also phases are elaborated by specifying needed input and output parameters. On
the other hand, in Agile environment, phases are specific to methodologies of Agile - Extreme
Programming etc. In this paper a common life cycle approach is proposed that is applicable for
different kinds of methods. This paper also aims to describe a mapping function for mapping of
traditional methods to Agile methods
MAPPING OF TRADITIONAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT METHODS TO AGILE METHODOLOGYcscpconf
Agility is bringing in responsibility and ownership in individuals, which will eventually bring out effectiveness and efficiency in deliverables. Companies are drifting from traditional Software Development Life Cycle models to Agile Environment for the purpose of attaining quality and for the sake of saving cost and time. In Traditional models, life cycle is properly defined and also phases are elaborated by specifying needed input and output parameters. On the other hand, in Agile environment, phases are specific to methodologies of Agile - Extreme
Programming etc. In this paper a common life cycle approach is proposed that is applicable for different kinds of methods. This paper also aims to describe a mapping function for mapping of traditional methods to Agile methods.
The document discusses key aspects of Agile software development including the Agile Manifesto, values, principles, practices, and approaches. It describes that the Agile Manifesto was created in 2001 and emphasizes individuals, working software, customer collaboration, and responding to change. Common Agile practices mentioned include daily stand-ups, early feedback, user story creation, retrospectives, and continuous integration. Specific Agile approaches like Scrum, Kanban, and Extreme Programming are also summarized.
The document provides an overview of agile software development. It defines agile development as a collaborative approach where requirements and solutions evolve through self-organizing cross-functional teams. The document outlines several agile methodologies introduced in the Agile Manifesto in 2001 including Scrum, Extreme Programming, Crystal, FDD, and DSDM. It also discusses lean practices as part of the agile development approach and compares agile to traditional waterfall models. Finally, it covers advantages and disadvantages of the agile model and considerations for when it is best applied.
This document provides an overview of an Agile summit held by the Michigan Digital Government. It introduces Agile concepts and frameworks like Scrum. Key benefits of Agile cited include accelerated time to market, improved ability to manage changing priorities, and enhanced software quality. The summit objectives were to introduce Agile, discuss how it differs from traditional approaches, consider its application in the public sector, and allow for discussion. Agile principles like early delivery of working software, self-organizing teams, and responding to change are outlined. The document also discusses scaling Agile to multiple teams, risks, and contracting approaches to support Agile projects.
The document describes IBM's Actuate program for project launches. Actuate aims to ensure projects are started right by facilitating key startup activities within 45 days. These activities are grouped under 10 focus areas like project scope, risk assessment, governance, and tools setup. IBM has seen benefits of Actuate like reduced surprises, improved risk assessment, and faster startup phase completion. Over time, Actuate coverage has increased while duration to complete activities has decreased, showing improved efficiency. Lessons learned include addressing delays in input documents and stakeholder availability.
This document discusses how businesses can create shared value for both society and business through their operations and strategies. It provides four approaches for shared value creation: 1) Solve societal problems and create new business opportunities; 2) Align existing products to benefit society; 3) Improve internal operations; and 4) Choose a social cause to support that aligns with the business. Creating shared value can provide competitive advantages for businesses through new markets, cost savings, and increased loyalty while also generating employment, participation opportunities, and improved standards of living for communities.
The document discusses different approaches an IT services company can take to incubate emerging technologies and build capabilities around them. It describes three main approaches: the "deep dive first" approach where R&D explores a technology in-depth before bringing it to delivery units; the "hand in hand" approach where R&D and delivery units collaborate early in the process; and crowdsourcing challenges to the organization. It provides examples of how these approaches have worked or not worked for technologies like cloud computing, enterprise mobility, location intelligence and IoT. The document advocates that a collaborative approach involving both R&D and delivery units early on tends to be most effective for technology adoption.
This document discusses how project management needs to evolve to address changing trends in the business environment. Traditional methods of stakeholder management, communication, and human resources management need to transform into deeper client engagement, articulating client value, and talent management. Project delivery also needs to incorporate more consulting approaches. Additionally, innovation, consulting skills, and social technologies can help augment traditional project management. These changes will help organizations better engage customers, deliver higher value, and ensure project success in today's dynamic marketplace.
This document discusses stakeholder management strategies for the successful implementation of India's Right to Education Act. It argues that stakeholder engagement and community mobilization are key, as seen in the success of India's polio eradication campaign. Specifically, establishing effective school management committees and increasing parental involvement can help address ongoing challenges like low learning outcomes and the enrollment of economically disadvantaged children. Proper monitoring of schools is also needed to ensure compliance with the act in practice, not just on paper. With coordinated efforts among all stakeholders, including government, schools, communities and volunteers, the goals of universal elementary education can be achieved.
This document discusses the qualities of an entrepreneurial project manager. It argues that entrepreneurial project managers see beyond the typical constraints of time, cost and scope, and understand how projects fit within an organization's strategic goals and culture. They are able to motivate teams by communicating the bigger picture and building strong relationships. Entrepreneurial managers also anticipate challenges and adapt to changing priorities. While they face barriers like lack of growth opportunities, organizations benefit from supporting entrepreneurial managers through training, mentoring and providing challenging assignments to help them grow with the company.
This document discusses approaches to implementing agile project management processes for distributed teams across multiple locations. It describes two case studies where distributed agile was successfully used. In the first case study, agile allowed for more frequent releases, reduced defects, and leveraged global talent. Best practices like daily stand-ups, estimation games, and tools like JIRA were used. The second case study involved a larger team across more locations developing mobile apps. Skill-based team structures and automated processes helped ensure success. Both cases saw benefits like improved velocity, faster turnaround, and time to market.
1. SAFE - The Quantitative way of achieving Process Excellence
Mantra for Process Excellence
Lavika Upadhyay
Quality Analyst
Cognizant
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Paper Abstract ID: PMI-TAG-14-2-209
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Authors:
Lavika Upadhyay (Lavika.Upadhyay@cognizant.com)
Sumedh Yeolekar (Sumedh.Yeolekar@cognizant.com)
Delivery Assurance Group, Cognizant Technology Solutions, India
Office Address:
Plot No 26/27 Rajiv Gandhi Infotech Park, MIDC Hinjewadi, Pune IT Park, Pune - 411020.
Paper submitted for
The PMI Project Management National Conference 2014
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Abstract
Two critical aspects of software system are structure and behavior. Structure describes basic functionality
of software components and behavior describes feature that deliver end user benefit. While agile
development supports both structure and feature based development thereby ensuring on time delivery,
high product quality, improved productivity and employee collaboration, the key challenges in adapting
agile development are: dependencies on external Vendors/organizations that are using waterfall and
Internal culture that requires time to shift to an agile mindset both in terms of people and process and
management feel that they will lose control assuming less planning, discipline and no documentation.
SAFE Agile are specially organized to meet both of these aspects to exhibit highest velocity of value
delivered in short term. This paper describes how a balanced mixture of agile development and Lean
concept enables team to eliminate delay, defects, and variance within business process. The integration
of Agile and Lean Six Sigma is a natural fit. This integrated approach will better define ways to
accomplish product development with transparency, predictability and reliability resulting in Business
Excellence.
Introduction
Agile and Waterfall are two distinct methods of software development. The waterfall model is a sequential
software development process which flows steadily downwards with assumption that the requirements
are available at the start of a project.
In reality, business conditions and requirements change, and generally the business is not particularly
good at requirements definition. The final product is available to business only during verification phase.
Unlike the waterfall approach, the agile development method is based on iterative and incremental
development. Documentation is minimal and customer feedback occurs simultaneously with
development.
Agile offer undeniable benefits: faster time to market, better responsiveness to changing customer
requirements, and higher quality. However, agile practices have been defined and recommended
primarily to small teams here where SAFe comes to picture. SAFE is a framework which scales
Agilemethodology to meet needs of project execution at enterprise level.
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Necessity of Transition: Waterfall to Agile
To overcome the limitations of Waterfall Model, it is necessary to adapt AGILE development to achieve
faster time to market and cope up with rapidly changing requirements.
As mentioned in Figure1, Agile methodology is Value/Vision driven and estimation is done based on the
features to be developed as part of iterations.
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Figure 1
Four broad success factors in order to do successful transition
Techology:
The tool to be used to
deliver solution like
XP,Rally 2.
People:
Organization’s
employees are
responsible for
implementing
Agile.Hence people
should be enthusiastic
and support team work
Organizational Design:
It refers to
organizational and
physical architecture .If
resources are located at
remote location then
implementing Agile is a
challenge
Leadership: Leadership
should actively sponsor
and support the
transition efforts
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What is AGILE?
Agile is a time boxed, iterative approach to
software delivery that builds software
incrementally from the start of the project,
instead of trying to deliver it all at once near the
end.
It works by breaking projects down into little bits
of user functionality called user stories,
prioritizing them, and then continuously
delivering them in short two/three week cycles
called iterations.
Bring Agility and Accuracy by integrating Agile and Lean
Agile teams thrive on spotting and removing problems, constraints and waste, they are well prepared for
using DMAIC thinking and tools. While they may not conduct full DMAIC projects, they can use tools such
as causal analysis, mistake proofing and ongoing process controls. Here is a look into some tools of Six
Sigma and how they can be used in Agile software projects
Define:
In an Agile software project, the problem of being disconnected from the customer is largely removed by
having a product master resent at team meetings. However, in a complex project in a large organization,
it is possible to have many direct and indirect customers, making it impractical to get everyone in a room
for the sprint review meeting. Using VOC ahead of time to prepare for the sprint review meeting will help
make the meeting much more effective
Steps to collect VOC before Scrum Sprint Review:
1. Identify all direct and indirect stakeholders for the upcoming sprint
2. Prepare targeted questionnaires for each user
3. Collect answers for the questions through direct conversation, email, etc.
4. Review any existing forms, issue log, etc. to identify customer pain points
5. Prepare for the sprint review meeting with additional knowledge of all customer needs
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Measure:
After receiving requirements from customer critical-to-quality (CTQ) tree helps in translating customer
requirements into measurable characteristics. A CTQ tree takes customer requirements expressed in
non-product terms and extrapolates specific features that can be developed. This can be a useful
exercise in a sprint review meeting. It allows the team, along with the product owner, to brainstorm a
solution from a requirement often expressed in a generalized way
Analyze:
After having information about what is important to address (determined in Define Phase through
VOC) and translating customer requirements into measurable characteristics (Measure), it is time to
prioritize what will be delivered and when. This is the crux of the Scrum product backlog and
planning for a sprint.
The matching of those features or requirements with a sprint and an Agile team still calls for some
estimation using past data regarding team capability (speed and accomplishments of recent sprints).
Attention to measurements and learning from patterns in past sprints are very important to Agile
teams.
Improve & Control:
Agile projects are fundamentally iterative projects that focus on building incremental code complete
in all respects in every iteration. A design decision made in one iteration – based on the
requirements as understood up to that point – may become a risk for a subsequent iteration as new
requirements are gathered.
By maintaining a FMEA design and evaluating it in each iteration, the development team will be able
to ensure that many potential failure points are analyzed ahead of time. Team can evaluate the
defect, impact on the project, the possibility of occurrence and the risk. This can lead to a cost-benefit
discussion with the customer and potentially avoid costly implementations with little value.
OPE can be maintained and analyzed during retrospection meeting which will help the team to
identify efforts spent on core, non-core and non-value added activities. This will enable them to
focus more on value add activities resulting in further cost saving and productivity improvement,
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Benefits by implementing Lean in Agile Projects
#1: Customer and Vendor tightly coupled:
Agile methodologies combined with Lean principles demands vendor to work closely with Business
Users. Voice of Customer is converted to CTQ and the same is verified during review/demo, hence end
product is a lot more likely to meet users’ real needs.
#2: Risks are uncovered and mitigated on time:
Lean software development enhances problem solving attitude and Agile promotes Time box activities
which will help developers to anticipate issues/risks that otherwise could be detected only a few days
prior to final product deployment.This way problem, issues and risks will not have major impact as they
would if accumulated until the end of the project - when a solution may even be impossible to find and
which will also reduce reprioritization of story points
#3: More Value Sooner:
The combination of Lean and Agile will help the team to deliver most prioritized features decided by
business within stipulated time by removing waste and unwanted activities which reduces pressure of
delivery by 2/3 weeks.
#4: Confidence booster:
One of the advantages of combining Lean to Agile is that the team constantly identifies opportunities for
improvement that they can implement themselves that allows talented and intrinsically motivated people
to shine.
Constraints:
Agile development practices offer undeniable benefits: faster time to market, better responsiveness to
changing customer requirements, and higher quality. However, agile practices have been defined and
recommended primarily to small teams. Solution to this is to use Scaled Agile Framework which is a
combination of Agile and Lean. Subsequent section of the paper describes how Agile can be scaled at
enterprise level.
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SAFe framework
The Scaled Agile Framework provides a recipe for adopt ing Agile at enterprise scale.SAFe tackles the
tough issues – architecture, integration, funding, governance and roles at scale.There are three levels in
SAFe: A. Team B. Program C. Portfolio
The Team Layer
At the Team level, SAFe recommends use of Scrum plus eXtreme Programming technical practices to
ensure high quality.
Primary responsibilities –
Each Agile Team has a Product owner and Scrum Master and works in Sprints to deliver new
architecture and User Story functionality.
In addition Agile Teams collaborate in Release Train Planning and each has its own Team
Backlog and PSI Objectives.
In the SAFe framework are mandated common cadence (all teams within a Program work on the
same 2 week sprint/iteration cycle) and the “Hardening, Innovation and Planning” or HIP sprint
which occurs every 5 Iterations.
The HIP sprint serves several purposes, but primarily aims to provide a bit of a breather for teams
(supporting sustainable pace), permits teams to work on the stories that they believe will add
most value to the platform and provides time for participation in planning for the next release.
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Roles at the Team Layer:
Program Layer
Product Owner -The Product Owner is the member of the team responsible for
both defining and prioritizing the Team Backlog
Scrum/Agile Master – Assures that the team follows the rules of Scrum/Agile by :
1. Facilitating the team’s progress toward the goal
2. Leading the team’s efforts in continuous improvement
3. Enforcing the rules of the Agile process
4. Eliminating impediments
Developers and Testers- Everybody tests. Everybody codes.
The Program level provides the essential glue to ensure that the work of the Agile teams is aligned with
the organization’s strategic Vision and Roadmap for each Investment Theme.
Primary responsibilities –
Program level Product and Release Management is designed to help prevent the work of
multiple Agile teams becoming mis-aligned and difficult to integrate.
At the Program level business and architectural Features are defined and ordered in a
Programmed Backlog.
Release ‘Train’ Planning is performed by teams together on a regular basis, typically every 2 -3
months. Potential Shippable Increments (PSIs) of business functionality are used for planning
with Hardening/Innovation/Planning Sprints used as necessary to ensure delivery on demand.
The evolving architecture necessary to support new business functionality is also planned and
developed ahead of the business functionality as an Architecture ‘Runway’ that it can ‘land’ on.
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In addition a System Team is often established to create initial infrastructure and then support
and share the Agile teams’ system-level continuous integration and end-to-end testing efforts
Roles at the Program Layer:
Product Manager -The product manager at the program level is analogous to the
product owner at the team level. They have content authority over the program
backlog – deciding and prioritizing what the system will do.
System Architect - The system architect has design authority. There are
architecture-specific backlog items that find their way into the program level
backlog.
Validate user experience via user testing ; Assist in UX system testing ; Share UX
guidelines and best practices across trains ;Participate in program and team level
planning and demos
The Release Train Engineer acts as a Uber-Scrum Master at the program level :
Assist program execution and tracking ; Coordinate all of the train activities
Escalates impediments and helps manage risk; Drives program-level continuous
improvement
Agile Release Trains –These are self-organizing teams of agile teams, reliably
and frequently delivering enterprise value.
Release Management Team - Responsible for scheduling, managing and
governing synchronized release
DevOps Team -Development departments are driven by user needs for frequent
delivery of new features, Operations departments focus more on
availability, stability of IT services and IT cost efficiency.
These two contradicting goals create a “gap” between Development and IT
Operations, which slows down IT’s delivery of business value DevOps team is to
fix this situation
System Team -Team is responsible for building the development infrastructure
and managing development environments. The System team stages the system
sprint demo which is a compilation of Team efforts and assists with test
automation and continuous integration
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The Portfolio Layer
At the top level in SAFe the Portfolio Management function turns the organization’s strategy into a set of
investment themes, typically for the next 6-12 months. Business and Architectural Epics to support each
Investment Theme are defined on a Portfolio Backlog of large scale development Programs which will
span multiple releases. A Kanban-based pull system is used to manage the flow of epics and ensure that
the economic basis for decision making is quantitative and transparent.
Primary responsibilities-
Need to identify Value Streams that can be initiated as programs for delivery by Agi le Release
Trains
Manage the funding of the Release Trains to keep them on the rails
Responsible for definition and management of Business and Architectural Epics that run across
value streams and need to be managed at the Portfolio level
Responsible for collecting Metrics throughout the system that help to inform Portfolio
Management.
Roles at the Portfolio Layer:
Program Portfolio Management- Will be taking care of Strategy& Investment Funding .Also
Program Management will be done at Portfolio Level
Epic Architect - The Enterprise Architect works with business stakeholders and System
Architects to drive holistic technology implementation across programs. Within the context of
the Framework, the enterprise architect is focused primarily on the following responsibilities
Epic Owner - The Epic Owner is responsible for driving individual Epics from identification,
through the analysis process, to the go/no go decision making process of Program Portfolio
Management, and when accepted for implementation, working with the Release Train
development teams and Product Management to initiate the development activities necessary
to realize the business benefits of the epic
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The SAFe Way to Be Lean
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Lean thinking is important for scaling agile:
SAFe synchronizes the alignment, collaboration, and delivery of large numbers of agile teams across
enterprise and employs key Lean principles to underpin it constructs .SAFe is fundamentally based on
five Lean practices
1. The Goal: Value
SAFe inherently supports enterprise value streams which document how value flows through an
organization Value stream represents all the activities that contribute to value delivered to a Customer.
Agile programs also known as Agile Release Trains (ARTs), are the regular, predictable value delivery
mechanisms that realize this value via collaborative program and team objective.
2. Foundation: Leadership
Effective managers must be trained in the principles of Lean Thinking .Managers, in turn primarily
develop people, who ultimately create and deliver solutions.Specifically,Product managers,Product
Owners and Scrum Masters operate as servant leaders and empower their teams to deliver value in the
fulfillment of business objectives.
3. Respect for People
Empowerment of teams to continuously improve the way they work employees are inherently motivated to
solve problems and create quality solutions when empowered to do so.Building employee and business
partnerships based on transparency,trust and mutual respect at all levels of the organization.
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4. Kaizen
Kaizen translates as “Change to become good”. Lean enterprise value that represents driven,
5. Product Development Flow
The principles of product Development Flow created a powerful mental model that SAFe uses to apply
lean flow principles to software development.
A. Take an Economic View
At Portfolio Level, Portfolio Epic Kanban System strategic investments themes and lightweight
business case are used to make economic decisions and impacts visible at the enterprise level.
Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF) this is economic prioritization tool focuses on the cost of delay
(CoD).WSJF is a key concept to prioritizing flow of work within a 2-3 month time box.
B. Actively Manage Queues
Short queues are good bas ed on Little’s Law; The more items we have queued in a s ys tem the
longer the average time each will take .Therefore, the longer the queue, the longer our client must
wait for new value Managing queues is very important for reducing wait time.
C. Understand and Exploit Variability
The Scaled Agile Framework accepts the fact that variability exists and attempts to leverage it by:
Limiting Team, Program and Portfolio to a finite size
Frequently re-planning to adjust and adapt
Using a Hardening Innovation Planning (HIP) sprint to promote innovations events that allow
teams ’ freedom to us e their experience and domain knowledge to dis cover and pres ent
innovative ideas to the business.
D. Reduce Batch Sizes
A batch size reduction is achieved by having co-located, cross functional teams that delivers small,
potentially shippable increments of work (PSI)
E. Apply WIP Constraints
The more work in process results in multiplexing overhead, which can often run from 20 to50%.A
common mantra in many agile organization is “s top s tarting and s tart finis hing” which implies that a
small amount of work should be driven to completion before starting any more work. In SAFe, WIP
is constrained at operational level.
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F. Control Flow Under Uncertainty: Cadence and Synchronization
SAFe uses cadence a regular rhythm to plan and deliver capability at sprint and PSI boundaries to
ensure that frequent and regular adjustments are made to the plan to help deliver predictable,
valuable results.
G. Get Feedback as Fast as Possible
A key lean principle is gathering feedback from all aspects of the software development process as
frequently and as fast as possible
Team level feedback is facilitated by small batch sizes, sprint retrospectives and technical
practices such as pair programming and automation testing.
At program level, feedback is gained from a fortnightly System Demo and the Inspect and
adapt (I& A) Workshop which is a program level retrospective designed to address and remove
systematic impediments.
Case where SAFe will save You:
Program wherein application consisting of multiple modules and technologies needs to be developed.
Each module belong to different subject areas hence developers with different skillset based on domain
would be needed. Delivering such project with multiple modules/technologies using Waterfall/Agile can be
a big challenge.
Major challenges that drove the need for change are:
Schedule slippage due to multiple streams working together
High number of defects due to late integration testing
Longer month release cycle; unable to respond to rapidly changing requirements.
Cross module communication to discuss dependencies and challenges at early stage of development
Continuous interaction with Architects/SMEs for resolving performance related issues
Benefits:
1. Reduce time-to-market
The agile development cycle uses the release train concept from SAFe.
Releases have a fixed date, and scope is selected and adjusted if necessary — in order to meet the
deadline. If a feature misses the train, it has to wait for the next train. Releases have smaller cycles as
product is developed based on prioritized features and exposed to user based on agreed timelines of first
iteration and probability of changes initiated in final release is very minimal due to continuous feedback
process. Complete product is available in final release
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2. Significant Quality improvement:
As a result of earlier and more frequent integration testing (which is fundamental to the agile approach)
defects are uncovered and resolved faster giving customer confidence on final delivery.
3. Risks are uncovered and mitigated at early stages of iterations:
As development is iterative and time box in nature effort and schedule risk is out of question
Continuous testing cycle and involvement of roles like UX; technical architect reduces risk of not
meeting NFRs and performance criteria.
Continuous user reviews/feedback gives confidence that we are building right product
Conclusion:
To build complex software in a large enterprise with multiple teams working across geographies, using
traditional approach of product development might not give desired results like faster time to market, on
time delivery and defect free product. To achieve this all the levels like operations , management and
business should work collaboratively.
Integration of Agile and Lean brings these three levels together to achieve vision, mission and values in
small size projects. For a large scale projects SAFe framework promotes a shift from “command and
control” style of management to leadership which will give confidence to deliver faster and qualitative
results even at large scale.
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