Introducing a lightweight process in a conservative environment
Organiser(s): PeterSchrier and GerJanTeDorsthorst
Session duration: 45 minutes
Session type: Workshop
Intended Audience: project managers, managers, coaches, people involved in change efforts
Session language: English
Description:
We will present how we managed to get an agile project started in this organisation and how the word about the project spread.
We invite you to explore with us success factors for a small XP-style software development project within an institution with a history of managing software development projects using either big M Methodologies – "Let's figure it all out first" or the Nike Method – "Just do it".
In both cases practices exist to make the project successful. Yet, projects are having trouble to be successful. If we are able to capitalise on existing practices in the context given and counter weaknesses with additional proven practices, projects can be more successful.
For instance, with big M methodologies we might need to add some "Just do it" practices, and with Nike Methodologies we might need to add some "Let’s figure something out here first". It is all in the balance and knowing what to choose when.
We would like to discover with you which factors specifically made our project successful and on which success factors we could have worked more. Moreover, we would like to explore how to anchor the most important success factors into an organisation, so new projects may benefit from lessons learned, in an aware manner of what fits and what does not, dependent on changes in context.
To make this exploration truly an exchange we invite you to write down any success factors you know of from your experiences and projects. Together we can discover, as we illustrate our project's success factors, the ones that we believe were crucial and the ones we overlooked. And you, in turn, may discover similar learnings applicable in your context and for your projects.
After the presentation we intend to have more and new insight on:
- which factors were really important here
- which practices were used to make these factors happen
- were all these practices specifically XP-practices or "was it already there" and we just capitalized on it
- on what factors can we elaborate for our purpose of anchoring
- how could we proceed to anchor the really important factors for use into new projects
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