AgilePM® Process Model

Business Case
The DSDM Process Prioritised Req’s List

Solution
Feasibility
(Page 28) Pre-Project
Eight Principles The composition of DSDM Assessment Development
(Page 20) (Page 16) Foundation
Terms of Feasibility Summary Delivery Plan
Focus on the business need
“Best business value emerges when projects are aligned Reference
 Understand the true business priorities Management
 Establish a sound Business Case to clear business goals, deliver frequently and involve the
 Seek continuous business sponsorship & commitment collaboration of motivated and empowered people.”
Foundations

Deliver on time
 Timebox the work
 Focus on business priorities Philosophy
 Always hit deadlines p16
Evolutionary
Development Assemble
Collaborate 8 Principles p20
Review Solution
 Involve the right stakeholders, at the right time Increment
throughout the project 6 13 14 5 Deploy
(phases) roles
 Ensure that the members of the team are Project Review

Practices
Products
Evolving Solution Deployment

People
Process
empowered to take decisions Report
 Actively involve the business representatives
Models
 Build a one-team culture
Timebox Plan Prototypes
p28 p32 p38 p50,
Never compromise quality 54, 60 Timebox Review Record Supporting Materials
Assessment
 Set the level of quality at the outset
Testing & Assurance Post-Project
 Ensure that quality does not become a variable Common sense and pragmatism
 Design, document and test appropriately
 Build in quality by constant review
 Test early and continuously Five Practices 5 Instrumental Success Factors (ISFs)
(Pages 50, 54, 60, 62) (Pages 24 - 26)

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Do enough design up front to create strong foundations 1 MoSCoW
M
S
4 Modeling
 Models improve
communication
WHY
WHERE
Embracing the DSDM Approach
 All stakeholders and participants
understand and accept the DSDM
possible  Challenge ideas
C project approach
 WHO
 Examples are, Train
 Formally re-assess priorities and ongoing project Won’t Have this time
Maps, Sketches for
viability with each delivered increment WHAT HOW  Focus on four elements
directions, how to

2
- Empowerment, Stability, Skills, Size
DSDM Timeboxes assemble furniture
Develop iteratively and equipment WHEN Business Engagement – Active
 Take an iterative approach to building all products Structured Timebox
 Build customer feedback into each iteration Typically 2-4 weeks and Ongoing
 Ensure active and ongoing business
 Accept that most detail emerges later rather than sooner

Close-Out
Investigation Consolidation engagement by:
 Embrace change - the right solution will not emerge WHY Rationale, ends and means - Commit of business time throughout
without it WHAT Data & Relationships - Day-to-day collaboration
 Be creative, experiment, learn, evolve @10-20% @60-80% @10-20% WHERE Locations - A supportive commercial relationship
WHEN Events’ time & scheduling
Communicate continuously & clearly WHO People and Responsibilities Iterative Development, Integrated
 Run daily team stand -up sessions HOW Process & Outputs Testing and Incremental Delivery
 Use facilitated workshops Free Format Timeboxing
Typically 2-4 weeks  Timebox delivers complete and potentially
 Use rich communication techniques such as deployable increment of the solution

5
modeling & prototyping Ensure testing is fully integrated
Close-Out
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 Present instances of the evolving solution early and often Iterative Development
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 Keep documentation lean and timely  Be as short as possible, typically taking a day or two,
 Manage stakeholder expectations throughout the project Iterative Development with several cycles happening within a Timebox Transparency
 Encourage informal, face to face communication at all levels  Be only as formal as it needs to be - in most cases  Make progress visible to all
limited to an informal cycle of:  Utilise Team Boards and Daily Stand-ups
- Thought - a consideration of what needs to

3
Demonstrate control  Underpins Demonstrate Control principle
 Use an appropriate level of formality for tracking Facilitated Workshops be done
and reporting  Workshop owner must work with the facilitator to - Action - to complete the work considered (PAQ) Project Approach Questionnaire
 Make plans and progress visible to all focus the workshop - Conversation - to review whether the outcome PAQ  Will 5 Success Factors be met?
 Measure progress through focus on delivery of  Set time aside for planning the workshop meets the need and to understand what  Assess risks and options if not
products rather than completed activities  Independent facilitator further work is needed if this is not the case
 Manage proactively  Empower the participants  Involve the appropriate members of the Solution
 Evaluate continuing project viability based on the  Workshop outputs are recorded & circulated Development Team relevant to the work being done.
business objectives

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