Date: October 6th, 2015

Time: 2pm – 7pm, 10 minute coffee breaks every hour

Prerequisites: A laptop or tablet will be required to participate in the course.

Lecturers: Tom Gilb

Intended audience: Project managers, functional managers, IT professionals involved into decision making on budget, scope, team size on a daily basis

Participation fee: 400 UAH paid via TicketClub 

Background

Most IT projects fail wholly or partly to satisfy expectations of funders and stakeholders (try Googling IT Project Failure).For those who want the ‘well hidden’ knowledge of how to succeed in IT Project Management, specific techniques will be presented in a lecture format with interaction between facilitator and the group.

Outcomes

The participants will be provided with knowledge and tools to help them

1. Control product qualities and costs
2. Ensure delivery of value early enough in the process
3. Lower risks throughout the project
4. Shift focus from building code, to delivery of value for stakeholders

Syllabus

1 hour Briefing on Foundations

• Focus on Stakeholders: why it is dangerous to focus on users and customers alone.
• Focus on Value: why it is bad to focus on functions, use cases, building code.
• Quantifying Values and Qualities: how to make unclear requirements much clearer
• Multiple Levels of Project Control (Organization, Stakeholder, IT, Tech Design)
• How to relate designs to requirements, value drivers to value needs: Impact Estimation Tables

Main Project Management ‘Evo’ Subjects

• Decomposing Project Deliverables to give a stream of high value.
  • 20 Decomposition Principles
  • The 111111 Method
  • The Value Decision Table Method of Decomposition
  • The Requirement Qualifier method of Decomposition
• Cost Estimation by Feedback, and Change. How to deliver, before the deadline.
  • Dynamic Design to Cost method of being on time , under budget
• Using the Value Impact Table to manage and report project progress.
• Case Studies of results using these methods.
• Backroom and Frontroom Project Management.
• ‘Evo’ as an agile method for those who need to manage quality.
  • Adding Evo Quality Management to Scrum.
• Contracting for Value Delivery: The Flexible Contract Method

About lecturer

Tom Gilb is known as the “grandfather” of Agile. He is a Senior Partner at Result Planning Limited and a frequent speaker at many conferences on requirements and project management. His references can very well sum up his impact onto Agile and project management practices.

“Tom Gilb invented Evo, arguably the first Agile process. He and his son Kai have been working with me in Norway to align what they are doing with Scrum.

Kai has some excellent case studies where he has acted as Product Owner. He has done some of the most innovative things I have seen in the Scrum community.”

Jeff Sutherland, co-inventor of Scrum, 5Feb 2010 in Scrum Alliance Email.

“Tom Gilb’s Planguage referenced and praised at #scrumgathering by Jeff Sutherland. I highly agree” Mike Cohn, Tweet, Oct 19 2009

“I’ve always considered Tom to have been the original agilist. In 1989, he wrote about short iterations (each should be no more than 2% of the total project schedule). This was long before the rest of us had it figured out.” Mike Cohn  

https://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/blog/a-requirements-challenge

Comment of Kent Beck on Tom Gilb’s book , “Principles of Software Engineering Management”: “ A strong case for evolutionary delivery – small releases, constant refactoring,  intense dialog with the customer”. (Beck, page 173).

In a mail to Tom, Kent wrote: “I’m glad you and I have some alignment of ideas. I stole enough of yours that I’d be disappointed if we didn’t :-), Kent” (2003)

“But if you really want to take a step up, you should read Tom Gilb. The ideas expressed in Principles of Software Engineering Management aren’t quite fully baked into the ADD-sized nuggets that today’s developers might be used to, but make no mistake, Gilb’s thinking on requirements definition, reliability, design generation, code inspection, and project metrics are beyond most current practice.”   Corey Ladas http://leansoftwareengineering.com/2007/12/20/tom-gilbs-evolutionary-delivery-a-great-improvement-over-its-successors/

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