Why Agile? Flashcards
Why do projects tend to fail?
Fail to bridge gap between strategy and delivery
Executives don’t recognize strategy is delivered through projects
Not realized the importance of PM as driver of organization’s strategy
Not able to handle crisis in high turbulent environment
How to improve project success?
Actively engaged executive sponsors
Controlling project scope
- Avoid scope creeping: series of very small changes
- Notify and negotiate at each step
Small and constant project deliverable, client as collaborator
Manage turbulence effectively
What are the characteristics of gymnastic organizations?
More able to cope with change
- Effective Crisis Management
- Adaptation and flexibility
Emphasize the human element
- Empower people to master new ways of working
- Understand the role of organizational culture
- Recognize the role of diversity, equity and inclusion
Leadership is aligned with all above
Difference between crisis and incident
Incident
- Structure
- Identifiable
- Predictable
- Contingency plans (risks)
Crisis: escalated beyond organization’s ability to contain it
- Inherently abnormal
- Unstable
- Complex
- Unpredictable
- Requires creative solutions
(bonus) Using incident methods for crisis would be more of a hindrance
Types of crises
Gradual, slowly created
-it can be stopped/restricted by organizational measures
Ongoing crisis
-management depends on the pressure to the organization
How to face crises?
Behaviour
Active Passive
Expected + Resilience Sloth
behavior - Self-destructiveness Sloth
Mechanism of resistance to change
Comfort zone (uncertainty)
Lock-in (stuck)
Repetition/Coercion (accostumate)
Consequence of facing crisis as companies
May lead to a higher level of resilience afterwards
How to increase windows of opportunity to act on projects?
Anticipation: Manage the uncertainty curve
- Early involvement of stakeholders
- Experience
- Prototyping
- Methods
- Normal in small projects, TPM, Waterfall or Stage-Gate
Flexibility: Manage the cost and time curve
- Change-driven
- Lack of information
- Agile
How to face crisis in projects?
Flexibility, as anticipation is not possible in turbulent environments
- Iterative: cycles
- Incremental: small outcomes
- Adaptative: open to change