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Skip Walter April 12, 2012
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Agile
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• Cognitive Psychology Researcher
• Software Engineer
• Software Designer
• Manager
• Executive
• Graduate School Teacher
• Organizational Designer
• Executive Consultant
• Serial Entrepreneur
• Pracademic (HCDE, Business)
• Proud Father – PhD, Lawyer, Soundscape Designer for games
Skip Walter - Composing a Life Creating Rainbows with my Colleagues
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Waterfall Software Development
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Just Technology…
Strapping New Technology onto Existing Processes and
People May Not be a Recipe for Success…
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Lecture Outline
• Context for Project Management
• The Kodak Fling 35 Story
• The Aldus PageMaker 5 Story
• The “Iron Triangle”
• Project Context – Decision Matrix
• Agile Project Management
• Core Project Management Concepts
• Exercise – break into three person teams
• Compare and contrast Waterfall and Agile
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Kodak “Fling 35” - 1989 The Daily Build – Seeing What Matters
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http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/47689/ev
aluatinguseofc00robe.pdf?sequence=1
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Aldus PageMaker 5.0 How not to do anything right!
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Paul Brainerd
Father of Desktop
Publishing
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The Iron Triangle of Project Management
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The Iron Triangle Pick Any Two
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http://theagileexecutive.com/2010/07/22/the-devops-triangle/
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Prioritizing the Iron Triangle
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James Thompson Organizations in Action
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Stable Shifting
Homogeneous
Heterogeneous
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The Facts of the Matter . . . Early!
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Added Value Services Layer
Scalable Application Infrastructure Configurable across the web, multiple threads, processors, cores, machines and SANs
COLLECT
Collection
Manager
PROCESS
Workbench
REVIEW
Document
Mapper
Suite
PRODUCE
Production
Appliance
MANAGE
Engagement
Manager
API
* *
eDiscovery Investigations Mergers &
Acquisitions
Freedom to
Operate
Added Value Professional Services Customizable
Agile
Rapid
Development
Swamp
Highly stable
Backwards
compatible
Bedrock
Waterfall
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Bedrock Swamp You know where you are.
You know where you are going.
You know how to get there.
You don’t know where you are.
You are not sure where you are going.
You don’t know how to get there.
Bedrock versus Swamp How do you navigate in the wilderness?
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Bedrock versus Swamp Waterfall versus Agile
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Prediction versus Control The Effectual Entrepreneur
16 http://www.effectuation.org/sites/default/files/What%20makes%20entrs%20entl%20note.pdf
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Agile Techniques and Processes
• Incremental development
• eXtreme Programming
• Scrum
• Adaptive Software Development
• Lean
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Dirty Little Secret of Agile
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Seeing the Bottlenecks in Enterprises Goldratt’s Theory of Constraints
If what you are
doing isn’t
working, shrink
the batch size.
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Agile Manifesto
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The Agile Principles
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Agile Adoption
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table-of-agile-adoption-.html
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Scrum – Most Popular Agile Method
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Core Project Management Concepts
• Communication is the results that you get, not the
words that you speak.
• Team Formation
• Expect what you inspect
• Daily Demo (Fling 35)
• Clear metrics of progress and success
• I want, I need, by when
• Big picture
• Specific result
• Delivery by
• Collaboration by Difference – Doug Wilde 24
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Communication Exercise
• Break into teams of three
• Need one person in each group to meet with me
• Describe a “full room” in a house you grew up in (no bathroom or
bedroom)
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Team Formation
• Forming
• Storming
• Norming
• Performing
• Adjourning
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Gotcha:
Any time you add or
subtract a member
from a team or team
meeting, you restart
at forming.
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Expect What You Inspect
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The Daily Demo
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Expect What you Inspect 10X Factor Productivity Criteria
• Using Slywotzsky imperatives observe knowledge workers
– Move from guessing what customers want to knowing their needs;
– Move from getting information in lag time to getting it in real time;
– Move from burdening talent with low-value work to gaining high talent leverage.
• Find a Clear Productivity Metric • Measure productivity every step of
development
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I want, I need, By When
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Collaboration by Difference Doug Wilde (Stanford) - Teamology
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http://www.asme.org/kb/news---articles/articles/diversity/more-
diverse-personalities-mean-more-successful-te
https://www.stanford.edu/group/designx_lab/cgi-
bin/mainwiki/index.php/Teamology
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Think Small “Fail” Forward
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When you are in a low information/knowledge
environment with high uncertainty:
Tell A Story!
Kaizen:
One Small Step
Ask small questions
Think small thoughts
Take small actions
Solve small problems
Bestow small rewards
Identify small moments
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Compare and Contrast Waterfall & Agile
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Compare and Contrast Waterfall & Agile
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To synopsize the difference between the two, one
can say the classic waterfall method stands for
predictability, while Agile methodology spells
adaptability. Agile methods are good at reducing
overheads, such as, rationale, justification,
documentation and meetings, keeping them as
low as is possible. And, that is why Agile methods
benefit small teams with constantly changing
requirements, rather more than larger projects.
http://agileintro.wordpress.com/2008/01/04/waterfall-vs-agile-methodology/
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Software Development Process
Waterfall or Agile
Design Build Distribute Intervene Operate
In no current software development
methodology is there a step for
defining, testing or achieving desired
productivity goals.
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User Observation –
The Miracle
Design Build Distribute Intervene Operate
Agile Process + User Research
Use Video to
Communicate
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What is the difference between …
• Project Management
• Product Management
HCDE 403 Spring 2012
Extreme Productivity by Design
Questions?
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