Combining Waterfall and Adaptive practice in IT projects

Combining PMBOK waterfall and
Adaptive (Agile, Scrum) models for
start-up software projects

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DANIL DINTSIS
PH. D. IN SYSTEM ANALYSIS,
PGMP, PMP, ITIL OSA, MOF CERTIFIED SPECIALIST
CONSULT@DINTSIS.ORG
WWW.DDINTSIS.COM

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Sources
 PMBOK® Guide 5 Edition
 PMBOK Extension for Software Projects
 ISO/IEC/IEEE/ГОСТ Р ИСО 12207, 15288
 IEEE Standards (SWEBOK® 3)
 ITIL ®, MOF®

What is Software Product? It is:
Business Solution Common Decision
Serviceable and Changeable

Software and Apps as a specific type of a Product
Wide audience
Virtual teams
External
dependencies
High educated
developers
Advanced
users

Project planning and management models

Waterfall – planning from start to finish
The most lovely one by corporate customers and top managers

Rolling wave
Rolling wave is the best approach for long
projects, or for projects with phase-to-phase
dependencies

Waterfall model advantages
 Strong and clear development roadmap
 Opportunity for complex architectural planning
 Clearly defined project scope: time, resources, finance

Early bird key decisions.
Waterfall models are hard to quick changes.
Final product market opportunities are in a risk zone in case
of long-term development
Disadvantages of the waterfall model

Adaptive models

Agile model
User
story
Analyze
Projectize
Develop
(Code)
Document
Test and
Validate
Operate

• Incremental planning with steps from 1-day to 1 month
• Integration of users and developers in a regular collaboration
• Small self-organized teams
• Large projects can include many adaptive teams
• Each team member works on a single project during one iteration
• Each team includes specialists with specific and general
competencies
Adaptive model. Main features

• predict results
• strongly fixed project scope
• team considers result as realistic one
• clear monitoring and control
• assistance in other projects planning
• baseline for resource, financial and schedule planning
Why WBS is so important?
Project
Package Package Package
Phase

Time
Functionality
Minimizing risks in requirements
Release 1
Release 2
Release 3
ADAPTIVE MODELS

Disadvantages of the Adaptive model
Summarizing of bugs from consequent iterations
Volume, time and resource uncertainty
Strategic planning challenges
Strongly based on both customer’s and team’s involvement
and motivation

Combined waterfall – agile model
as in the PMBOK extension for software projects

Risk management cycle
combining waterfall and agile
as in the PMBOK extension for software projects

MSF model
Project plan
approved
Out of
Developm
ent
Release Readiness
Review
Deployment
Milestone
Vision approved
Build

A Single Iteration Lifecycle
Plan
Analyze
DesignDevelop
Test
© Scott Schultz “Rapid Iterative
Production Prototyping”, 1988

WBS extension for mixed Waterfall – Agile models

Boards for different planning levels (based on Trello)
Global Board
Package
board
(SCRUM)
Team member
individual
board

Product. Version 1.0

Развитие продукта. Регулярные улучшения

Change levels vs Planning models
Change
category
What changes Difficulties Duration Model
First level Modification of
existing work
procedures
Low Fast change Adaptive/
Agile
Second
level
Changing of
business
procedures
Medium Medium Adaptive as a
part of a
project/Program
Third level Changing business
branches
Very difficult Long-term Portfolio

Developers are not only a “resourse”!
People need more than tasks!
Team motivation.
Implementing best from Agile

Team building approaches
 Combining local and virtual teams
 Experts and specialists of common practices
 Balance between project and functional team members

Face-to-face information change recommended

Team work models
 Pair programming
 Test-led programming
 Co-location

PM role
Leadership
Control

Slack as an example of a team collaboration tool

Contacts
 www.i-mokymas.com
 info@i-mokymas.com
 www.itstartupadvise.me

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