Agile IT Project Professional by Kjetil Strand

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Agile management with ITPP
SmidigDig 2016
Kjetil Strand, Promis AS

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What is ITPP?
• ITPP = IT Project Professional
• A certification programme in agile management
• Organized by the Norwegian companies Metier AS and
Promis AS, in cooperation with former and current SIMULA
researchers
• Introduction in spring, 2012

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All use of this document should be
followed with reference to Promis AS
and/or the authors
Agile
Contracting
and
Execution
ITPP = PRINCE2® + ACE

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3 sound principles in PRINCE2®
• Continued business justification
• Focus on products
• Learn from experience

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• Agile from the Customer’s perspective
• Value Breakdown Structure
• Remove waste – create flow
• Quality assurance – the Control Gate
• Agile contracting
• Scaling agile
• Based on experience and best
practises
ACE – specific features
In short: ITPP gives
power to PRINCE2® !

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Agile from the Customer’s
perspective
• Benefits and cost budgeting
• Benefits and cost management
• Owner governance
• Real Product Ownership
• Enterprise Architecture compliance
• Control Gate for each iteration
• Risk sharing with the suppliers

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The Pareto principle
80% of the effects
come from 20% of
the causes 0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
45
50
0
2,00
3,60
5,50
7,70
10,10
11,70
13,40
15,60
17,60
20,00
22,60
24,50
26,80
28,70
31,40
33,90
36,20
38,00
40,00
Accumulated benefits
Accumulated benefits
0
80% of the benefits
50% of cost budget

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Value Breakdown Structure
Story level
Epic level
Effect goals
(quantified
outcomes)
Business Case
Benefits
Cost
Timescale
Uncertainty
Effect goals 1..n
Epic 1
Story 1 Story 2 Story 3
Epic 2
Story 4

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3 views on software initiatives
Work Product Value

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Epic
Both story points and benefit points
Story points
Benefit points
• Benefit points
• Re-use elements from Planning Poker
– Group sessions
– The Fibonacci sequence
Story
Story points
Benefit points
Story
Story points
Benefit points

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Quantifying the relative benefit of epics
with respect to each effect goal
• Business experts quantify relative benefit using «benefit points» (0,1, 2,
3, 5, 8, 13, 20, 40, 100)
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Using group sessions... .. to fill the epic/effect goal matrix
60MNOK
Processing time per
received application
reduced by 50%
40M
Accuracy in
fraud detection
increased by
50%
Calculated
weighted average
Epic 1 3 8 5
Epic 2 1 8 3,8
Epic 3 8 5 6,8
Epic 4 20 2 12,8
... ... ... ...
Epic n 13 13 13

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Service development in the public domain
Sprints
Scope
Team leadsStakeholders
Product Owner
ProductBacklog
Cross functional
teams

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Continuous prioritizaton
New user story
Prioritization
Estimation
Budget
Prioritet

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Continuous prioritizaton
New user story
Prioritization
Estimation
Budget
Prioritet
3
2
1

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ITPP – status per mid 2016
• 250 persons have been certified since the introduction in
spring 2012
• All large consultancy companies in Norway are
represented, and most of the public agencies
• Online version in English launched in 2015
• www.smidigeprosjekter.no

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ITPP online
Workshops are replaced by
presentations and self study of
the book «Agile Contracting and
Execution»
Online version available
in English only
All use of this document should be
followed with reference to Promis AS
and/or the authors
Agile
Contracting
and
Execution