APM Workshop, Milan, September 28, “APM Workshop, September 28, 2007” Agile Project Management Models Workshop Practice ORGANIC TEAMS

APM Workshop, Milan, September 28, Participants Massimo Ramponi Michele Sandrucci Michele Lucioni Rita Spanò Salvatore Specchia Massimilano Bentivegna Viviana Rasi Vincenzo Arnone Elena Cheli Paolo Rossi Tommaso Falasconi Federico Lazzarin Marzia Giannini Silvano Degani Luigi Pantarotto Paolo Scapini

APM Workshop, Milan, September 28, Referring to the ORGANIC TEAMS practice, what APM activities do you already perform? Customer: Financial Organization (Bank) Project: Development of a new Information System Timeframe: 4 months (!) Performing organization: Startup Company Project Team: 7 resources (4 sr. + 3 jr.) Team meeting every two days Weekly status meeting with the Customer

APM Workshop, Milan, September 28, What other APM activities do you suggest to perform in order to better implement the ORGANIC TEAMS practice? Fostering of adequate culture, both in the performing organization and within the customer Development of a rewarding system which recognizes autonomy and self-organization Early sharing of business objectives at team level Reconciling the self-discovered rules of each team with the general (simple…) rules of the performing organization

APM Workshop, Milan, September 28, What APM activities suggested by APM model, do you consider really outside your mental model and your project environment? APM model specific for Software Development projects, difficult to extend to other environments APM model is difficult to implement in functional organizations Agile teams can be quite expensive (skilled, flexible resources), at least at the beginning You need the RIGHT customer, the RIGHT project, the RIGHT resources (skill, experience, attitude)…

APM Workshop, Milan, September 28, ORGANIC TEAMS - Questions What about the risk of being a “jack-of-all-trades and master- of-none”? How can you estimate the effort for an “agile” project in advance? Colocation with geographically dispersed “virtual teams”? How to reconcile “democracy” within teams with external time constraints?