Presented at InnoTech Austin on October 20, 2011. For details on InnoTech, visit www.innotechconferences.com

1. with Real‐World,
Agile & Integrated Project
Agile & Integrated Project
Management™ and Business
Analysis™
Tools and Techniques You Can
Implement Now!
Darrel A. Raynor, PMP, MBA
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2. Abstract
How to Get More Out of Your Project Teams with Real‐World,
Agile & Integrated Project Ma
A il & I t t d P j t Management™ and Agile &
t™ d A il &
Integrated Business Analysis™ ™ Tools and Techniques You
Can Implement Now!
Can Implement Now!
Need to continually do more wit th less without burning out your
teams? Want to move to mor
teams? Want to move to mor efficient processes without
re efficient processes without
re
disrupting what works in your r organization? Come discuss
A&IPM™ and A&IBA™ how c commercial, nonprofit, and
, p ,
government organizations are e reducing their process
overhead, number of docume ents, and frustration by using
best practices in place in many organizations. These best
practices do not require tool p
purchases, rather use your
existing technology.
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3. Benefits
This presentation describ
This presentation describ
bes:
• Expectations and Best Practices
And how to:
dh
• Plan projects using your documents as deliverables
p j gy
• Reduce the number of and d complexity of many of
your documents
your documents
• Learn techniques geared t to easing your project
process burden
b d
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4. Expectations
• Be able to select
Be able to select
how to record your
documents
• Be able to use of
your documents
and email
and email
• Be able to negotiate
processes
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5. A&I Defined
Agile & In g
g ntegrated
Project Management™ and : Business Analysis™
• Agile: Quickness; Lean; Ta
Agile: Quickness; Lean; Ta
ailored
• Integrated: Unified; Acts a
as a System
• Leading to meet project reequirements
How We Differ with A&IPM and A&IBA
• Real‐world steps to fit YOUR projects
Real world steps to fit YOUR projects
• Includes basic Integrated Artifacts
• PMI & IIBA
PMI & IIBA concepts linked R l W ld S
li ked to Real‐World Steps
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6. Do
ocument Best Practices
• Format all document
Format all document
ts
– Most important infoormation first
– Suitable to projector
r and screen sharing
• Don’t duplicate infor
Don t duplicate infor
rmation
• Link – Traceability
aceab y
• Update or static?
• Track changes
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7. Your ‘Slider’
Use your ‘Slider’ for t
tailoring the
number, depth, and c content
of all your p j
y project pro
p ocesses…
A Lot
More
Som
me
A Little
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8. Do
ocument Best Practices
• WEDIAKPO
Write Everything Down I A K
Wi E hi D In A Known Place Once
Pl O
No ‘Winging IT’
• Create all documents at
t start
Don’t give into urge to cre
Don’t give into urge to cre
eate more documents
eate more documents
• Discussion group or cen
ntral file – NOT email!
Don’t use email to record information
Especially avoid attachme
Especially avoid attachmeents!
• As both Agenda and Me
eeting Minutes
Save dozens of documents
S d fd ts created, stored, backed up…
t d t d b k d
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9. A&
&IPM Project Pentagon™
SCOPE TIME
PEOPLE COST
QUA
ALITY
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10. Us
se Links to Complete Your
Document Circle
• How to architect your linking so that you
How to architect your linking so that you
provide the needed ‘drill down’ and return…
–TTraceability
bilit
Help
– Support Exploration
– Be able to ‘Get Back’!
Home
H Process
Application
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11. Glossary
• Where the meaning o words live
Where the meaning o
of words live
of
• Best Practices
– Use only words in Glossary
– Hierarchy: Org  Dept  System  Project
Hierarchy: Org  t 
t System 
– Project: at end, conside
er migrating “up”
– Review and update oft ten
– Load into ‘Custom Dictionary’ and run spell check
y p
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12. References
These references (Among ot
thers…) yield best practices.
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13. Questions
&
wers
Answ

14. Resources & Questions
www.DataAnalysis.com
Training: For course descriptions a
and schedule
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Consulting: Contact us for customized, lean, project consulting
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- An Approach to LLeading People Through Deliverables“
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15. Thank You for Being a Great
Audience!
A di !
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