THE LEVERAGED TRIANGLE

PM-Agile-DevOps enable development leadersRichard Jenny, PM Operations PE, PMP, PM-ACP, MBA

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30-June

TRIAGILE 2016

SPEED,

AGILITY,

QUALITYPM Foundation

SKILLS

Agile Development

METHODS

A DevOps

MINDSET

“Leveraged Triangle of Constraints”Richard Jenny PM Workshops 2015

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CO-EXISTENCE!

“…of Agile METHODS, Project Management SKILLS and a DevOps MINDSET.

For Speed, Agility, and Quality in product development.

These three domains have long been looked at independently by

many. Speakers often point to the disadvantages and technique pitfalls of

each to gain buy-in and preference to their key focus.

The true leveraging model recognizes and respects aspects of all three

domains …more efficient and transparent development environment

…in planning, developing and delivering high quality customer solutions.”

Richard Jenny PM Workshops 2015

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RJ’S “LEVERAGED TRIANGLE” BEGINNINGS

• PM 4,000 Years ~100 <75

• Agile 100 Years ~60 <25

• DevOps 50 Years ~25 <10

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• 2630 BC–2611 BC? - Pyramid of Djoser?

• 1916 - Henry Fayol’s Principles of Management?

• 1931-1936 Hoover Dam?

• 1950s - The Navy Polaris Missile Project or DoD PM rollout or NASA adoption?

• 1958 - Invention of CPM and PERT?

• 1996 – PMBOK? …..or in 2017 6th edition after adding Agile!

• 2012 – Project Management for Dummies? …or in 2006, SW PM for Dummies? …..or in 2012 Agile PM for Dummies?

PROJECT MANAGEMENT’S BEGINNING

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• 1957 - Incremental Software Development?

• 1970 - Dr. W. Royce’s Managing The Development Of Large Software Systems?

• 1977 - RJ’s Calculus Portfolio Program?

• 1990s - Compilation of Light SW development methods?

• 1994 - Dynamic System Development Method?

• 2001 - Agile Manifesto?

• 2012 - Agile Project Management for Dummies?

AGILE’S BEGINNING

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• 2007 – Patrick Dubois’s concept in an IT Data Center project in Belgium?

• 2008 - Agile conference, Andrew Clay Shafer, Patrick Debois discussed

"Agile Infrastructure“ and “DevOps"

• 2008 – Concurrent Engineering “Systems Thinking” ("Paradigm Shift”)?

• 2009 – San Jose @ Flicker syncing Dev and OPS for “Velocity”

• 2009 Oct 30-31 – Belgium “DevOpsDays”

• 2010 - “DevOpsDays” in Sydney, then in Mountain View, CA

DEVOPS’S BEGINNING

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A DEVOPS FLY-BY…GENE KIM

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DEVOPS DEFINED?

• Group of concepts that have catalyzed into a movement

• Collision of trends: agile operations, collaboration dev. and ops

• Building, evolving and operating rapidly-changing resilient systems at scale

• OPS making use of the same techniques as Developers for systems work.

• Collaboration of customers, product management, developers, and QA

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WHY THE LEVERAGED TRIANGLE?BECAUSE OF PROJECT FAILURE DRIVERS

Insufficient or Non-Evolving Planning

Lack of Executive Sponsorship

Scope Judgement Errors or In-Project requirements change

Lack of a System Level, Repeatability Mindset

All Common across PM, Agile, and DevOps10PM Operations

WHAT ARE A FEW SIMILAR PM/AGILE/DEVOPS TRAITS?

“General Manager” Leader Servant Leader

Scope Statement and Charter Release Planning

Progressive Elaboration (Learning) Sprint Planning

Concurrent Engineering (DevOps) SCRUM Team

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INCREMENTAL PLANNING AND VALUE!REPEATABLE BY SYSTEMS.

LEARN FAST, LEARN OFTEN

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Value Delivery at each Sprint

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REFERENCE: LEVERAGED TRIANGLE ABSTRACT

Purpose: Explore opportunities for parallelisms between traditional Project Management Skills, Agile Development Methods and the DevOps Mindset to enable greater speed and agility in IT and Product development and deployments.

Who will Benefit: Senior Technical Agile Project and Program Managers, PM Office, Agile and IT Leaders, IT. Leaders involved in guiding teams or organizations in maturing methods to the eliminate wasted work and improve time to market development and delivery cycles.

Description: Leveraging Agile Development Methods and the DevOps Mindset, the technical PM or agile Leader can augment his or her training in the PMBOK and Agile knowledge Areas and Processes to optimize project teams for increased speed and value creation agility.

• All models strive to deliver Customer Value first! …in different ways.

• Traditional PM SKILLS and models may induce risk of a missed market window.

• Agile METHODS and a DevOps MINDSET helps minimize work waste, deliver early while optimizing the system and the customer or stakeholder value.

13Richard Jenny PM Operations https://www.linkedin.com/in/richjenny 919.271.4317 rjenny01@gmail.com

THANK YOU!

RICHARD JENNY

PM Operations

https://www.linkedin.com/in/richjenny rjenny01@gmail.com

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