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Agile - Explaining Agile Project Management

Posted in agile governance, agile project management, agile theory

The Common Sense Approach to Project Management

Incremental delivery of value
High quality, effective results
Focused on business value

Agile Management (or just Agile) is an umbrella term for a set of ideas, principles and methodologies for developing software, that share a common philosophy.

APR

Stating the Obvious

16 APR 2013 | Posted in agile governance, agile governance framework | Author Rob Smith

Former American President Calvin Coolidge once remarked, “They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our problems would take care of themselves.”

DEC

Which way does the gate go?

17 DEC 2012 | Posted in agile adoption, agile governance, waterfall | Author Michael Robinson |

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Imagine the scenario. You are working for an organisation or PMO that takes a relatively 'waterfall' view of the world, with phases and gates. You spend a large part of your effort trying to get out of the current phase by satisfying the exit criteria to get through the gate.

Q: What can I personally do to become more Agile in this envrionment?

IndigoBlue at the Agile Business Conference

15 OCT 2012 | Posted in Agile Business Conference 2012, agile governance, incremental delivery, uncertainty management | Author Rob Smith

This year's Agile Business Conference was the best yet. There was a great level of attendance with a good number of large enterprises attending. There were some great talks, from both Agile specialists and user companies.

The conference is a great platform for Agile and really demonstrates the increasing take up of Agile in businesses of all sizes in the UK.

We had two speakers - James Yoxall and Mike Robinson - and I thought it would be useful to bring together their talks and related material.

Agile with PRINCE2

10 OCT 2012 | Posted in agile governance, Agile with PRINCE2 | Author James Yoxall

This paper presents IndigoBlue’s approach to integrating Agile with PRINCE2®. It explains why the two approaches can be used together at a conceptual level, and follows with a discussion of the key differences and how they can be resolved. This paper assumes that the reader has a prior level of knowledge of the two approaches.

It is often supposed that Agile and PRINCE2 conflict directly with each other, and cannot be used effectively together. The basis of this view is that PRINCE2 is ‘process-heavy’, while Agile is ‘process-light’.

IndigoBlue Governance Framework

10 OCT 2012 | Posted in agile governance, agile governance framework, incremental delivery, project initiation, uncertainty management | Author Rob Smith

IndigoBlue’s governance framework was created in response to the lack of an adequate set of governance processes for Agile projects and programmes. The absence of good governance is particularly apparent on larger programmes or within organisations running a number of Agile projects.

Agile Governance From The Top Down

10 OCT 2012 | Posted in agile governance, scaling agile, uncertainty management | Author James Yoxall

Agile as a project approach enables value creation whilst also empowering sponsors and senior stakeholders to affect governance over the investment. However, this depends on effective mechanisms for translating the team view into a stakeholder view of progress, risk and opportunity. This paper identifies the challenges and solutions in achieving this translation.

SEP

Using 'Adaptive Capacity'

24 SEP 2012 | Posted in agile governance, backlog management, contingency | Author Stan Wade |

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So, last time I talked about how maybe we should rethink the concept of contingency in agile projects and introduced the concept of Adaptive Capacity, our ability to deal with the ever expected change. Adaptive Capacity is comprised of three major sources:

Agile Governance from the Top Down - webinar recording

Posted in agile governance

James Yoxall, IndigoBlue Process Director presented a webinar - Agile Governance from the Top Down - as an introduction to the Agile Business Conference 2012 [44:51].

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Webinar: Agile Governance from the Top Down

22 AUG 2012 | Agile Business Conference Webinar |

Agile Business Conference Webinar

Overview

Agile delivery teams argue that they provide a more effective platform for governance, by giving a clearer and more honest picture of project status.

Unfortunately, the story from the top down is somewhat different. Senior management and project offices find Agile projects almost completely opaque, and totally reliant upon the assurances of key individuals.

This webinar looks at the reasons why such a gap in understanding exists, and defines the necessary components of a governance process so that the objectives all parties involved can be met.

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Webinar recording, summary and slides

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