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1. Projects at ASPgems
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2. Complex
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3. Unique
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4. And now.... ?
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5. Doing a project on time
and budget is as easy as
walking over water
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6. Only one requirement:
water and specs frozen
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7. Define goals
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8. Build a model
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9. Build a plan
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10. Plan resources
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11. Identify risks
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12. Anticipate problems
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13. Have alternatives ready
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14. Manage progress
%=
Spent
Spent
+ Needed
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15. Choose two
Time
Resources
Features
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16. Manage
100
75
50
25
0
M1
M2
M3
M4
M5
M6
M7
Real
M8
M9
Planned
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17. Change control
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18. “Stats”
Not finished
With trouble
Success
http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/NCP08083B.pdf
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19. Why?
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20. Lie
• You think you
know what you
want
• You just have an
approximate
idea
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21. Future changes
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•
•
The market changes
Your ideas change
Technology changes
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22. The plan does not work
100
75
50
25
0
M1
M2
M3
M4
M5
M6
Real (as of today)
Planned
M7
M8
M9
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23. Increase control
•
Less resources for the project
•
Control reduces flexibility
•
Project minutes, documents no
one read
•
Cost of control and
documentation
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24. Communication
• From your head to
your voice
• From what you speak
to what I get
• From what i get to
what I want to build
• From what I want to
build to what I build
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27. My name is Agustín and I am
alcoholic
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28. In our world
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29. High Business Risk
Risk
High tecnichal Risk
Low Business Risk
Low tecnichal Risk
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30. The web will always be a little bit broken
Tim Berners Lee
http://www.hyperorg.com/misc/nprbroken.html
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31. Release early, release often
If everything is fine, probably you are late
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32. Engineering
vs.
Craftmanship
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33. Choose two
Time
Resources
Features
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34. Change question
•
How long and how
much does it cost?
•
Which is the best projet
I can do in the time I
have with the resources
I have?
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35. Change principles
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•
•
•
•
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Collaboration
Less is more
The user rules
Minimum viable project
Uannimity
Don’t build models, build
the real thing
Agile
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36. Collaboration
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37. Less is more
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38. The paradox of choice
Barry Schwartz
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39. - Satisfaction level +
positive effect of # options
- number of options +
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40. - Satisfaction level +
negative ones
- number of options +
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41. - Satisfaction level +
total
- number of options +
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42. If the user says it is broken, then it is
broken
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43. Minimum viable project
Aim for the
smallest
possible project
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44. unanimity
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45. fucntional darwinism
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46. More Benefit
Cost vs. Benefit
More Cost
Less Benefit
Less Cost
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47. Iterate
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48. Lessons learned
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49. Agile is not technology
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50. Top management
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51. http://vimeo.com/29719577
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52. http://www.slideshare.net/sgreene/salesforcecom-agile-transformation-agile-2007-conference
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53. Can’t do both
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54. Thanks!!
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