blending methods to succeed comparing prince2 s agility with scrum within the tfs2010 alm

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BLENDING METHODS TO SUCCEED

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COMPARING PRINCE2’S AGILITY WITH

SCRUM WITHIN THE TFS2010 ALM

Author : Vincent TAVONEKHAM

Website : www.Thavo.com

Date : 13 March 2011

© 2011 Vincent THAVONEKHAM, www.Thavo.com. Please use / modify freely this presentation ONLY if you keep this line of text. Course Version 4.1.0

TFS 2010 ALM AS A TOOL FOR PRINCE 2

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Team working

•Roles,

•Onshore, near/off shore,

•Doc. and code sharing,

•Centralizing information. Following everything

With « Work Items »

•User‟s requirements / stories (Business Case),

•Feedbacks or Bugs,

•Request for change,

•Workflow for validating the change...

Planning

•Estimating,

•Reports,

•Integrating / sharing with other tools.

Risk and Quality management

•„Reporting Services‟,

•„Build‟ reports,

•Integrate additional tools (quality, doc generation,…),

•Automating tasks and tests,

•Delivery automation.

Configuration Management

•Source control,

•Versioned and backed-up documents,

•Reporting.

Request for change

•Branching and merging

•Changeset and tracking. PRINCE2 and TFS 2010 offers

similar “components” and workflow

of processes to lead to project

success.


OVERVIEW OF PRINCE 2

Official OGC definition of PRINCE2

“PRINCE2 is a generic, tailorable, simple to follow project

management method. It covers how to organise, manage and

control your projects. It is aimed at enabling you to

successfully deliver the right products, on time and within

budget. As a Project manager you can apply the principles of

PRINCE2 and the associated training to any type of project. It

will help you to manage risk, control quality and change

effectively, as well as make the most of challenging situations

and opportunities that arise within a project.

• A PRINCE2 project has the following characteristics:

• Continued business justification

• Learning from experience

• Defined roles and responsibilities

• Managed by stages

• Managed by exception

• Focuses on products and their quality

Tailored to suit the particular product environment

PRINCE2 does not cover all aspects of project

management. Areas such as leadership and people

management skills, detailed coverage of project management

tools and techniques are well covered by other existing and

proven methods and are therefore excluded from PRINCE2.”

Business Value

Driven

continuously

Learning from

experience

Defined roles and

Responsability

Focused on product /

Quality

Best practices based

on thousands of

succeeding projects

Managed by

stages

Managed by

tolerances

No guarantee

to succeed, but

fails quicker

Generic and no tool

recommendation


PRINCE 2 AND TFS 2010

Nikolaj Raahauge, PRINCE2 Practitioner and Approved Trainer (7 July 2009):

“I'd very much like to point out that tailoring PRINCE2 to the individual project and

organizational environment is far more important than going off the bureaucratic cliff and

implementing PRINCE2 full scale”

“in the case of Software Development projects, this is where SCRUM, XP or what not

comes in”

Martin van Borselaer, PRINCE2 Coach and Senior Project Manager,

(White paper on PRINCE 2):

“The new PRINCE2 2009 manual states explicitly that templates other than the official PRINCE2 ones

can be used for reporting, as long as you report what is important to your customer. It is a good idea to

use specific Scrum information like release planning based on Velocity and Product Backlog,

Lessons Learned based on Sprint Retrospectives”

“Within PRINCE2 the delivery process is a black

box, (since it) is all about managing the project‟s

process. The Scrum process is all about delivery.

Fast and effective delivery is key.”

“This makes Scrum a natural fit to the

PRINCE2 „Managing Product Delivery‟ process”


AGILITY IN PRINCE2 AND SCRUM (1/2)

Usually people do not notice the large amount of similarities between PRINCE2 and SCRUM. Rather than presenting them all in detail, here are some few examples:

BY DEFINITION

PRINCE2 and SCRUM are mature and based on practical feed backs of thousands of successful project worldwide,

Neither PRINCE2 nor SCRUM could be used alone, they have to be blended to other technics,

Neither PRINCE2 nor SCRUM should be fully used “from the book”, they have to be adapted to the company,

CONTROL

[PRINCE2] Stage and decision boundaries [SCRUM] Sprint iteration of fixed length and Spring Review

[PRINCE2] Driven by the Business' needs [SCRUM] Driven by User Story and prioritized by Business values

Shall we carry on ?

[PRINCE2] End Stage Assessment [SCRUM] Sprint iteration review

Regular reports :

[PRINCE2] highlight reports {by Project manager} [SCRUM] Daily stand up meeting {by the team + Scrum Master}


AGILITY IN PRINCE2 AND SCRUM (2/2)

TECHNIQUES

Assumes that changes will occur (detailed and big design up-front cannot predict

all)

[PRINCE2] Change Control [SCRUM] Reprioritizing User Story before the

start of a sprint, and reprioritizing technical tasks during a sprint

Decompose user‟s needs to visualize the problem and feeds that back to the

users :

[PRINCE2] Product Break down structure [SCRUM] Epic (=Big User story)

> sub-User stories > related tasks > related sub-tasks

PLANS

Quality boundaries : Agreed and strict tolerance at many levels

[PRINCE2] Project {program management}, stage {project board} and

product {project manager} [SCRUM] “Definition Of Done” : Program

{program management}, End of sprint iteration {project board}, User Story

{Product Owner}, Tasks {Team / Scrum Master}


WHICH TOOL FITS PRINCE2 ?

FAQ from http://www.prince2.com

“PRINCE2 makes no recommendation on which tools you should use to assist you manage your projects

but it does recognise that such tools are widely used. PRINCE2 will sit quite happily alongside a paper-

based planning system or any other tool which you find to be effective in your environment”

Based on “Work Items”, a solution to implement

PRINCE2 could be TFS 2010. Indeed, it is flexible

enough to handle the entire Application Life Cycle

Management (ALM) of two opposite project

process templates :

A lightweight project process template (Scrum,

Agile),

A heavy weight project process template (CMMI,

Sogeti TMAP process template certified, …)

http://www.prince2.com/


Thoses slides are continiously getting improved; up to

date information on TFS, PRINCE2, PMBook and AGILE

on the author‟s blog

www.Thavo.com (Vincent THAVONEKHAM)

The author will further detail those slides into a

whitepaper that will be freely available on this

blog,

PRINCE2 official Web site : http://www.ogc.gov.uk

http://www.borselaer.org/index.php/2010/03/whiteboo

k-prince2-combined-with-scrum/

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SOURCES AND REFERENCES

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http://www.ogc.gov.uk/

http://www.borselaer.org/index.php/2010/03/whitebook-prince2-combined-with-scrum/











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