Adrian discussed agile project management and the challenges of assurance. Adrian kicked off with a challenge to the audience that there is no such thing as agile project management, rather that agile is about a state of mind and behaviours.

1. Creating an Agile
assurance landscape
for projects
26th February 2015
Adrian Pyne

2. making organisations fit for projects
 Being Agile means……
 Being Agile at two levels
 Agile Organisational Project Management
 Being an Agile landscape
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About Adrian......
• Organisation culture development
• Coaching and mentoring
• Collaboration
• Professional Services build and management
• Business Transformation programme delivery and rescue
• Portfolio, programme and project management capability development
• Enterprise PMO design/build/operate
• Intelligent Client model development
• Member of APM approx. 20 years
• APM Audit Committee
• Frequent speaker , conference chair and blogger
• Cabinet Office White Paper
• OGC: MSP, P3M3 & Portfolio Mngt review panels
• APM – Intro to Programme Mngt & Portfolio Mngt
• The Gower Handbook of Programme Management
• APM Registered Project Professional and Assessor
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Applied Impact Technology 4

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Being Agile means…..
 Satisfy the customer, produce outcomes that result in benefits
 Embrace changing requirements
 Provide an environment for success that is sustainable
 Collaborative behaviours based on Trust
 Keep it simple
 At regular intervals – reflect, learn and adjust
Steve Messenger
Chair: DSDM Consortium

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Being Agile at two levels
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$95,000 per second
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
0.5%
http://www.whereprojectsthrive.uk/

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 Organisational Agile Project Management
Being Agile at two levels
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 Within projects and programmes

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Being agile at two- levels: projects
What an agile project looks like
An Agile Project Manager stands back…hands off

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Timeboxing
Collaboration
Engagement
Purpose
Being agile at two- levels: projects
What an agile project looks like

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Projects are viruses
Agile Organisational Project
Management

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Agile Organisational Project
Management
A challenging landscape for Agile
I want to run an Agile project
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u5N00ApR_k
See Youtube link:

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Agile Organisational Project
Management
Organisation Culture
Vision
Strategy
Technology
ProcessPolicies
Values
Organisation
Rules
Behaviours
Symbols
Relationships
Perceptions
Beliefs
Assumptions
Unwritten
rules
Common practice
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Agile Organisational Project
Management
What needs to be overcome
And some people simply get it wrong……
 Non-agile organisation culture
– Lack of flexibility
– Non-release of operational resources
– Lengthy decision making, e.g. change
– Resistance to Matrix working
– Top down governance
– Lack of Trust and empowerment
– Very risk averse – loathing of uncertainty
 Organisational anti-bodies

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Being an Agile landscape
Eye on the PRIZE
AGILE GOVERNANCE

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Being an Agile landscape
AGILE GOVERNANCE

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Being an Agile landscape
Collaboration
AGILE GOVERNANCE
TRUST

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Being an Agile landscape
Measure
AGILE GOVERNANCE
Learn
Planned
benefits
Planned
outcomes
Planned
capabilities
Project
Deliverables
Actual
capabilities
Actual
outcomes
Actual
benefits

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Agile Organisational Project
Management
Agile Organisation Culture – you can’t be a bit Agile
Vision
Strategy
Technology
ProcessPolicies
Values
Organisation
Rules
Behaviours
Symbols
Relationships
Perceptions
Beliefs
Assumptions
Unwritten
rules
Common practice
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"Vercingetorix Throws Down His Arms at the Feet of Julius Caesar", 1899, by Lionel Noel Royer
Being an Agile landscape

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Thank you!

21. Links:
http://www.apm.org.uk/blog/agile-thinking-projects-thinking-out-process-box
http://www.apm.org.uk/news/transformational-change-what-do-and-yellow-brick-road
I want to run an agile project parts 1 and 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u5N00ApR_k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAf3q13uUpE
Brian Wernham
http://www.amazon.com/Agile-Project-Management-Government-Wernham/dp/0957223404
Whereprojectsthive
http://www.whereprojectsthrive.uk/

22. Contacts
Adrian Pyne
E: a.pyne@btconnect.com
M: 07767 822 842