Projects at ASPgems

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Complex

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Unique

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And now.... ?

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Doing a project on time and budget is as easy as

walking over water

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Only one requirement: water and specs frozen

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Define goals

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Build a model

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Build a plan

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Plan resources

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Identify risks

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Anticipate problems

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Have alternatives ready

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Manage progress

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Change control

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“Stats”

http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/NCP08083B.pdf

Not finishedWith troubleSuccess

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Why?

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Lie

• You think you know what you want

• You just have an approximate idea

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Future changes

• The market changes

• Your ideas change

• Technology changes

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The plan does not work

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Increase control

• Less resources for the project

• Control reduces flexibility

• Project minutes, documents no one read

• Cost of control and documentation

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Communication

• From your head to your voice

• From what you speak to what I get

• From what i get to what I want to build

• From what I want to build to what I build

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My name is Agustín and I am alcoholic

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The web will always be a little bit broken Tim Berners Lee

http://www.hyperorg.com/misc/nprbroken.html

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Release early, release often

If everything is fine, probably you are late

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Engineering vs.

Craftmanship

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ResourcesTime

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Change question

• How long and how much does it cost?

• Which is the best projet I can do in the time I have with the resources I have?

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Change principles

• Collaboration

• Less is more

• The user rules

• Minimum viable project

• Uannimity

• Don’t build models, build the real thing

• Agile

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Collaboration

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Less is more

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The paradox of choice

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If the user says it is broken, then it is broken

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Minimum viable project

Aim for the smallest possible project

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unanimity

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fucntional darwinism

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Iterate

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Lessons learned

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Agile is not technology

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@agustincnchttp://www.slideshare.net/sgreene/salesforcecom-agile-transformation-agile-2007-conference

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Thanks!!