1. Project Management in the Digital Era
The impact of agile project management

2. Production Control
Progress Chasing
Production Planning
Problem Solving

3. The Digital Era
What are the features of Projects?

4. What’s the difference for Project Management?

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7. From managing processes
A Switch
To Managing Value

8. Why value is important
Viability
Prioritisation
Minimum viable product

9. When things get complicated!
Agile was designed for small teams producing small increments in functionality in short cycles known as Sprints.
For complex business change projects this is too simplistic.
The result is that larger activities require a number of small teams to act in concert. Giving rise to a co-ordination and planning role:
The Agile Project Manager
In this simplistic view of an Agile Release Plan. We have four feature teams working together. Team 1 and Team 4 are working on the same feature:
Team 1 has is working with a 1 week sprint cycle
Team 2 a 3 week cycle
Teams 3 and 4 are working on 2 weeks.
This is not uncommon as the sprint cycle time would depend upon the complexity of the work required.

10. This could spell the end of the Gant Chart!
This situation gives rise to a complex dependency management task.
In fact Agile projects have a greater challenge with dependency management than traditional projects. Because in traditional projects the phases take care of some dependencies.

11. Why agile metrics? Three uses Agile without metrics is anarchy –
collecting metrics is the only sure way to quantitatively validate performance and success.
Three uses
Planning
Analysis
Reporting

12. Collaboration v directing
Servant leader
Facilitating self- managing teams
Responsibility for resolving blockers
Engaging stakeholders
Creating a team of teams

13. Features of agile projects
Teams
Perpetual and temporary.
Self-managing – encouraged inconsistency.
Continuously improving.
Process
Just enough documentation.
Agile ceremonies.
Agile Not anarchy.
Metrics
Planning based on metrics.
Status reporting linked to Sprints or Releases.
New terminology, e.g. cadence, velocity; all involving mathematics!

14. The role of the Digital PM
1. Orchestration
2. Stakeholder engagement
3. Issues or impediments
4. Risk Management
5. Change Management

15. Project Management in the Digital Era

16. For further information contact:
Jonathan Ward
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17. Room for a Project Manager?
Primary Agile Roles
Architecture
Owner
Product
Owner
Team
Member
Team Lead or Scrum Master
Stakeholder
Secondary Roles (for Scaling)
Independent
Tester
Agile
Coach
Technical
Expert
Specialist
Integrator
Adapted from © Disciplined Agile Consortium 17

19. The Agile Project Manager
Delivery of value
over
Rigid requirements
Control of dependencies
Management of timelines
Application of metrics
Production of estimates
Collaboration
Directing
That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more