Preparing For Success

Question 1

What are the instrumental success factors:

Answer 1

Embracing DSDM
Effective solution development team
Business engagement active and ongoing
Iterative development, integrated testing, and incremental delivery
Transparency
The project approach questionnaire assessing options and risks

Question 2

How do we embrace the dsdm approach?

Answer 2

Stakeholders and participants understand and accept the dsdm philosophy and concepts

Question 3

What are the 4 key areas of building an effective team

Answer 3

Empowerment
Stability
Skills
Size

Question 4

How should the solution development team be empowered?

Answer 4

To make decisions based on expertise within the boundaries
They are chosen for their desire, authority, responsibility, and knowledge.

Question 5

What does stability mean?

Answer 5

The solution development team needs continuous, informal, and ideally face to face communication to understand the business problem and solution

Question 6

What skills should the solution development team have?

Answer 6

Core business knowledge and technical expertise required
Good communication
Work well with others

Question 7

What size should the solution development team be?

Answer 7

7+-2

Question 8

What do we mean with business engagement

Answer 8

It must be active and ongoing, actively engaged and committed on the time and maintain it throughout the project.

Question 9

Commitment of business time throughout

Answer 9

Direction of the project, business engagement, business time, and guide details of the solution

Question 10

Active involvement of the business roles

Answer 10

Contact ongoing and frequent to guide the evolution of the solution

Question 11

Supportive commercial relationship

Answer 11

Collaborative working on the iterative and incremental development

Question 12

Other measures for success

Answer 12

Iterative development integrated testing an incremental delivery

Question 13

Iterative development, integrated, testing, and incremental delivery

Answer 13

Each time box complete potential deployable, increment, testing, fully integrated into the alternative and incremental development

Question 14

Transparency

Answer 14

Ongoing progress and work is visible to all demonstrations of the evolving solution are available at the end of time, box, physical objective, and unquestionable proof of progress.

Question 15

Project approach, questionnaire, assessing options and risks

Answer 15

Assesses, whether the success factors are likely to be met
actions needed to be taken
used during feasibility phase shape the work of foundation face, and at the end of foundations to help finalize approach