Section 10 : Adaptative Approach Flashcards
When is it appropriate to use an adaptive approche ?
- Changes or variations in the environment or inputs
- Changing conditions
- Varying needs
- Environment is uncertain or dynamic
- Important to optimize performance
- Changing requirements or constraints
What are the characteristics of an uncertain or dynamic environments ?
- Frequent
- Significant
- Flexible
- Responsive
- Fluctuating demand
- Changing customer needs
What type of adaptation can be needed ?
- System
- Process
- Adapting to new regulations or standards
- Adapting to changes in the availability or cost of resources
What is the difference between adaptive and predictive plan-based project ?
What are the pros of adaptive ?
Pros
- Greater predictability
- Improved risk management
- Flexibility
- Greater agility
- Improved decision making
Cons
- Lack of upfront planning
- Greater risk
- Inflexibility
- Great risk of failure
What does virtual structure help in a adaptive project ?
- An adaptive approach may be particularly suitable for virtual teams
- Can be helpful in situations where team members are geographically dispersed
- Allows for greater flexibility
- Ability to adapt to changes as they occur
What is a collocated structure ?
- An adaptive approach may be suitable for collocated teams
- Can be helpful in quickly responding to changes or challenges * Communication and collaboration
- Osmotic communication
What is osmotic communication ?
It is when you learn informations by being in the open space.
* A benefit of collocated teams is osmotic communication
* Useful information that flows between team members who are in proximity
What is a matrix structure ?
- May be suitable for teams operating in matrix structure * Coordination and collaboration
- The ability to adapt to changes as they arise
What is hierarchical structure ?
- An adaptive approach may be less suitable for teams operating in a hierarchical structure
- May be more difficult to quickly make changes and adjustments
- Waiting on approval rather than quick decisions
- Waiting time is waste
What is a distributed teams ?
- At least one team member is working off-site
- Majority of agile teams are distributed
- Communication tools and reduced communication costs * Cost-effective approach
What is a global, cultural and team diversity ?
- Not uncommon to have team member from different countries working together
- May create challenges:
- Time zones
- Cultures
- Communication styles
- Native languages
What are the digital tools for distributed teams ?
- Videoconferencing, live chat, Skype
- Interactive whiteboards
- Instant messaging
- Web collaboration software
- Presence-based applications
- Electronic task boards and story boards * Web-based meeting facilitators
- Survey applications
- Agile project management software
- Virtual card walls
- Monday.com, Trello, Wrike, Smartsheet
What is the difference between a distributed and an outsourced teams ?
- Distributed team: multiple development sites that can span buildings, cities, or countries
- Outsourced team: multiple legal entities, contracting, contract administration and different development infrastructures
How to encourage emergent leadership ?
- Team success is more important than individual success
- Anyone can be a leader on an agile team
- Understanding roles and responsibilities
What is fostering emergent leadership ?
- Allow team members to take charge
- Motivate the team members
- Show recognition of individuals and team
- Avoid zero sum rewards
What is the level of uncertainty for an adaptative project ?
- Uncertain
- Dynamic
- Greater flexibility
- Ability to adapt to changes as they occur
How does the size and complexity of the project can affect the type of method we should use ?
- Smaller or less complex projects require less upfront planning
- Flexible in responding to changes
How is the level of team autonomy in an adaptive project ?
- Involves regular reviews
- Evaluation of progress
- Ability to adjust the plan as needed
How does the stakeholder preferences can impact the project ?
- Stakeholders’ preferences and needs may impact the approach
- Resource constraints
- Risk tolerance
- Project goals and priorities
- Level of influence
What are the organizational process assets ?
- Resources
- Processes
- Tools
- Historical information
- Artifacts
What are the environmental factors ?
- Enterprise and external factors
- Conditions
- Influences
What are the organizational process assets that facilitate
the use of adaptive approaches ?
- Project management software
- Risk management processes
- Agile methodologies
- Collaboration tools
What does the project management tools help u too do ?
- Planning
- Tracking progress
- Adapting to changes
What does the risk management processes helps to do ?
- Help to identify potential risks or challenges
- Plan for potential risks or challenges
Give me some agile methodologies ? (Draw an agile process)
- Scrum
- Lean
- Kanban
What are the pre-sprint activities ?
- Vision Statement: concise description of the goals of the project
- Product Roadmap: visual timeline of major product features to be delivered and is
- Stories: requirements written by the Product Owner and based on customer requirements
- Product Backlog: made up of stories and prioritized
normally created by the Product Owner
What is the sprint planning meeting ?
what is the daily stand up/ daily work ?
What is the product increment ? Finished work ?
What is the sprint review?
What is the sprint retrospective ?
Is it possible to cancel a sprint ?
- Product Owner has the authority to cancel a sprint
- Can happen when the Sprint Goal becomes obsolete
- Changes in the Product Backlog, strategies, or approach
- When a sprint is cancelled, the items that are “Done” will be reviewed and accepted, and the rest of the items will be put back into the Product Backlog
What are the collaboration tools ?
- Collaboration tools are essential for an adaptive approach
- Communication
- Collaboration
- Team communication
- Project management software
What are the environmental factors that facilitate the use of adaptative approaches ?
- Dynamic or uncertain environments
- Stakeholder preferences
- Regulatory or compliance requirements
- Technological changes
What is an dynamic or uncertain environment ?
- Greater flexibility
- The ability to adapt to changes as they occur
What are the regulatory compliance requirements ?
- An adaptive approach may be more suitable for ensuring that the project remains compliant if regulatory or compliance requirements are subject to frequent changes
How the technological changes can affect ?
- Rapid technological changes can make an adaptive approach more suitable
- Adaptive approaches allow for the incorporation of new technologies as they become available
