Adaptive Project Framework

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Adaptive Project Framework
Managing Complexity in the Face of Uncertainty

• Presented by
• Robert K. Wysocki, Ph.D.
• Enterprise Information Insights, Inc.

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Meet Your Discussion Leader

• Consultant, trainer, author, publisher
• 40 years experience in IS/IT PM
• Author of 16 books on PM and IS/IT
• Author of the PMI recommended book Effective
  Project Management Traditional, Adaptive,
  Extreme, 4th Edition, Wiley 2007
• Developed more than 20 PM courses
• Trained over 10,000 project managers

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Agenda
Contemporary IS project landscape APF
fundamentals A high-level look at the APF
cycles Adaptations of APF
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Contemporary IS Project Landscape


To the traditional project manager every IS
project looked like a nail and they had the
hammer.
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Contemporary IS Project Landscape


NEEDS

WANTS
What the client wants is probably not what the
client needs. The PMs job is to make the client
want what they need.
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Contemporary IS Project Landscape


Why do you think over 70 of all IS projects
fail?
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Contemporary IS Project Landscape
Projects fail for lack of

• Executive management support
• User involvement
• Experienced project manager
• Clear business objectives
• Minimize scope
• Standard infrastructure
• Firm basic requirements
• Formal methodology
• Reliable estimates
• Skilled staff

APF
Source Standish Group
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Contemporary IS Project Landscape


One size does not fit all.
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Contemporary IS Project Landscape


What basic approach makes sense for this type of
project?
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Contemporary IS Project Landscape

Would you rather follow the recipe or know how to
develop the recipe?
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Contemporary IS Project Landscape


SOLUTION

Clear Not Clear
Not Clear Clear
GOAL
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Contemporary IS Project Landscape


SOLUTION

Clear Not Clear
Not Clear Clear
GOAL
TPM
TPM Traditional Project Management
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Contemporary IS Project Landscape


SOLUTION

Clear Not Clear
xPM
Not Clear Clear
GOAL
TPM
xPM Extreme Project Management
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Contemporary IS Project Landscape


SOLUTION

Clear Not Clear
xPM
Not Clear Clear
GOAL
TPM
APM
APM Agile Project Management
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Contemporary IS Project Landscape

Emertxe Project Management
MPx Emertxe Project Management
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Contemporary IS Project Landscape

Distribution of Projects across the Landscape

SOLUTION

Clear Not Clear
10...
Not Clear Clear
GOAL
70
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Contemporary IS Project Landscape

SDLCs map directly into this Project Landscape
TPM Linear Standard Waterfall
Rapid Development Waterfall
Incremental Staged Delivery
Waterfall APM Iterative
Evolutionary Development Waterfall
Feature-Driven Development Adaptive
APF ASD Scrum RUP
DSDM xPM MPx Extreme
INSPIRE


SOLUTION


Clear Not Clear
xPM
MPx
Not Clear Clear
Extreme
Extreme
GOAL
TPM
APM
Linear Incremental
Iterative Adaptive
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Contemporary IS Project Landscape
Other Factors Affecting Choice of PMLC
Let me help you get on top of this situation.
This is harder than I ever imagined.
Risk Cost Duration Complexity Market
Stability Business Value Technology Used Business
Climate Customer involvement Goal Solution
Clarity Departments Affected Organizational
Environment Team Skills Competencies Completenes
s of Requirements
Risk Cost Duration Complexity Market
Stability Business Value Technology Used Business
Climate Customer involvement Goal Solution
Clarity Departments Affected Organizational
Environment Team Skills Competencies Completenes
s of Requirements
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Contemporary IS Project Landscape
Project Management Life Cycles
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Adaptive Project Framework
APF is unique among Agile Models

• Product and process development
• Scope Change
• Scope Bank
• Integrative Probative Swim Lanes
• APF can be imbedded in other PMLCs
• Meaningful client involvement
• Cumulative delivery of maximum business value
• Terminate any time without loss of business value

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Examples of Projects
TPM Install an intranet network in field
office APF Put a man on the moon and return
him safely by the end of the decade xPM Cur
e the common cold
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Contemporary Project Landscape
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Characteristics of APF




Thrives on change rather than avoiding it Adapts
traditional and agile tools Based on the
principle learn by doing Assures maximum
business value Just-in-time planning Squeezes out
all non-value added work Scope is variable
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Working Definition of an Adaptive Project
An adaptive project consists of a number of
cycles each comprising a sequence of unique,
complex, and connected activities that must be
completed within fixed time and budget
constraints, and deliver maximum business value.
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Overview of APF



APF originated out of two client
engagements Supermarket kiosk design and
development Software development project
management process design
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Overview of APF



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Version Scope

• Adaptive SDPM Strategy for APF Version Scope

• DELIVERABLES
• Conditions of Satisfaction
• Project Overview Statement
• Prioritized functionality
• Mid-level WBS and dependencies
• Cycle length and of cycles

Version Scope
Cycle Plan
Cycle Build
Customer Checkpoint
Post-Version Review
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Cycle Plan

• Adaptive SDPM Strategy for APF Cycle Plan

• DELIVERABLES
• Low-level WBS for this cycle
• Dependencies and schedule
• Partition activities to sub-teams
• Sub-teams develop micro-plans

Version Scope
Cycle Plan
Cycle Build
Customer Checkpoint
Post-Version Review
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Cycle Build

• Adaptive SDPM Strategy for APF Cycle Build

Version Scope
Cycle Plan
Cycle Build
Customer Checkpoint
Post-Version Review
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Client Checkpoint

• Adaptive SDPM Strategy for APF Client Checkpoint

Version Scope
Cycle Plan
Cycle Build
Customer Checkpoint
Post-Version Review
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Post-Version Review

• Adaptive SDPM Strategy for APF Post-Version
  Review

Version Scope
Cycle Plan
Cycle Build
Customer Checkpoint
Post-Version Review
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Characteristics of an APF project

• Incomplete requirements
• Meaningful client involvement
• Short cycles
• Daily 15 minute team meetings
• Co-located team of professionals
• Fixed time and cost
• Cycle ends when time-box expires
• Cycles converge on a solution
• Probative Integrative swim lanes
• No scope change management process
• Variable scope

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APF is a robust approach

• Prototyping
• Business justification
• Business process improvement
• New product development
• Research Development
• APF can even be used within a TPM project!

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Adaptive Project Framework
Selected Bibliography
Effective Project Management Traditional,
Adaptive Extreme, 4th Edition, 2007, John Wiley
Sons, ISBN 978-0-470-04261-8 Effective
Software Project Management, 2006, John Wiley
Sons, ISBN 0-7645-9636-5 Adaptive Project
Framework Managing Complexity in the Face of
Uncertainty, 2009, Addison Wesley, in
preparation. Effective Project Management
Traditional, Agile, Extreme, 5th Edition, 2009,
John Wiley Sons, in preparation
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Thanks for being a great audience!!!
Robert K. Wysocki, Ph.D. Enterprise Information
Insights, Inc. rkw_at_eiicorp.com