Last time we got into a fun discussion around Agile and the difference to ... hmm? ... to what? It would be far fetched to claim that there is a comprehensive and generally accepted understanding of what Agile is. But what are we comparing against? It appears that at the moment the term "traditional project management" is quite popular and its even more vague than Agile. Let's be brave and tackle that beast. What Project Management schools of thought are out there? What are the differences? And what are the arguments for one or the other?

1. Agile versus ___?
(If you only have a hammer, ...)
Project Management and Beyond …
Meetup #8
Berlin, Nov 11th 2014

2. Agenda
19:15 - 19:30: Nice to meet you :)
19:30 - 19:45: Short Impulse
19:45 - 20:00: Brainstorming
20:00 - 21:00: (Fishbowl) Discussion

3. There are many PM Frameworks,
Methodologies and Approaches ...
...
PRINCE2
PMBOK
IPMA ICB
SCRUM
CCPM
KANBAN
… with differences but also complementing!

4. What are the differences?
to be honest: a little bit exaggerated ;)
AGILE
- Short iterations
- Build fast, welcome
changes and learn
- Self-organization
- Stable teams
- Periodical reflection
- ...
TRADITIONAL
- Phases and milestones
- Analyse, plan, build
and avoide changes
- Command & control
- Varying group staffing
- Post-mortem review
- ...

5. If you only have a hammer, everything looks
like a nail ...
Complex Complicated
somewhat predictable
not completely knowable
pattern management
emergent practices
inspect and adapt
fairly predictable
(not easy) knowable
analysis/ reduction
good practices
plan and control
Chaotic Simple
predictable, reproducable
obvious, easily knowable
standard procedures
best practices
process optimization
not predictable
not knowable
crisis management
experiments
stabilization
Based on: Cynefin Model [Dave Snowden]
Disorder

6. If you only have a screwdriver, everything
looks like a screw …
Complicated/
Political
Simple/
Rational
Complex
Complicated/
Judgemental
Chaotic
HOW?
uncertain
WHAT?
certain uncertain
Based on: Stacey Matrix [Ralph Douglas Stacey]

7. Utilize known things
Source: http://pm-blog.com/2014/08/24/das-ende-der-planbarkeit-beyond-project-management/ [Hagen Management]
Explore new things
STABILITY INSTABILITY

8. What projects are more successful?
average
no project
management
waterfall agile
Source: http://www.pentaeder.de/projekte/2011/10/11/was-ist-des-agilen-pudels-kern/

9. What is the Key Success Factor?
● Smaller projects are a little bit more successful.
● IT-Projects that deal with complicated technologies are as successful as
projects that deal with simple technologies.
● Powerful/ integrated project management tools have only minimal negative
influence.
● The usage of communication tools have a minimal positive influence.
● Collocation versus remote work: projects with teams at one location are
more successful.
● The gender mix in the project team has no influence.
● …
Source: http://www.pentaeder.de/projekte/2011/10/11/was-ist-des-agilen-pudels-kern/

10. The TEAM is the Key Success Factor!
average storming
performing
Source: http://www.pentaeder.de/projekte/2011/10/11/was-ist-des-agilen-pudels-kern/

11. Brainstorming:
Place your “projects” on the Cynefin!
Complex Complicated
somewhat predictable
not completely knowable
pattern management
emergent practices
inspect and adapt
fairly predictable
(not easy) knowable
analysis/ reduction
good practices
plan and control
Chaotic Simple
predictable, reproducable
obvious, easily knowable
standard procedures
best practices
process optimization
not predictable
not knowable
crisis management
experiments
stabilization
Based on: Cynefin Model [Dave Snowden]

12. Anything else to discuss?
● What do you (want to) know about ___?
● Why do you think, ___ will (not) work for you?
● What aspects are you missing when you think
about ___?
● …?
● What do you think would be a perfect “hybrid”
framework? And why?