Slide 1: Social Project Management Everything small is big again Leisa Reichelt Flow Interactive
Slide 2: who are we?
Slide 3: a tiny bit about me
Slide 4: what are we talking about?
Slide 5: so... social project management, eh?
Slide 6: why is this interesting?
Slide 7: the ‘social’ revolution
Slide 8: changing the way we do many things
Slide 9: a new way of ‘doing’ projects...
Slide 10: well... not really new...
Slide 11: ...it’s just that they’re being taken a lot more seriously these days.
Slide 12: limited planning no documentation do it yourself (small team) multiple skillsets small budget release ASAP
Slide 13: what was once a hack, is now an accepted methodology
Slide 14: project management 2.0?
Slide 15: social project management
Slide 16: [project management]?
Slide 17: what does project management 2.0 look like?
Slide 18: small teams
Slide 19: smart, motivated people
Slide 20: limited planning
Slide 21: a clear vision
Slide 22: minimal scope
Slide 23: small projects
Slide 24: multi-skilled teams
Slide 25: fast pace
Slide 26: rapid release
Slide 27: alpha
Slide 28: beta
Slide 29: feedback
Slide 30: responsiveness
Slide 31: iteration
Slide 32: is this really so new?
Slide 33: but, there are not-so-new alternatives...
Slide 34: agile
Slide 35: Manifesto for Agile Software Development We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. Through this work we have come to value: Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Working software over comprehensive documentation Customer collaboration over contract negotiation Responding to change over following a plan That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more. www.agilemanifesto.org
Slide 36: short development cycles, iteration, end user involvement, multi-disciplinary teams
Slide 37: compare & contrast with ‘project management 1.0’
Slide 38: large scale projects
Slide 39: top down
Slide 40: Gantt charts
Slide 42: many stakeholders
Slide 43: escalating requirements
Slide 44: complex dependencies
Slide 45: risk registers
Slide 46: mammoth teams
Slide 47: scary/crazy budgets
Slide 48: horizon & beyond timelines
Slide 49: expected failure.
Slide 50: why do these types of project fail?
Slide 51: firstly. do they fail?
Slide 52: Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP, Accenture, IBM Global Services
Slide 53: the 1.0 ‘large scale’, top down project approach fails spectacularly. All the time.
Slide 54: except, they don’t *officially* fail. Because we update the Gantt chart as we go. We move the goal posts
Slide 55: but why?
Slide 58: traditional project management doesn’t match the way we work.
Slide 59: war story
Slide 60: project management 2.0 projects *also* fail all the time.
Slide 61: for different reasons...
Slide 62: usually because it just wasn’t such a great idea.
Slide 63: or the implementation was completely wrong
Slide 64: or the audience doesn’t exist yet.
Slide 65: but it doesn’t matter.
Slide 66: because they’re smaller and faster. there’s less invested.
Slide 67: dust off. take the learning. move on.
Slide 68: ok. so what’s all this social stuff got to do with it?
Slide 71: new toys
Slide 74: but, will it scale?
Slide 75: creating a composite
Slide 76: a recent war story
Slide 77: old principles new principles
Slide 78: the take home lesson
Slide 79: want to share your thoughts or experience? thank you :) leisa reichelt leisa.reichelt@gmail.com blog: disambiguity.com work: flow-interactive.com
Slide 80: image credits Gantt Chart image: http://www.conceptdraw.com/products/img/ScreenShots/project/gantt_chart_presentation.gif How waterfall doesn’t fit the way we work images taken my me, of Johnnie Moore’s presentation at Reboot 9.0 (johnniemoore.com) Org. chart: http://www.pipingdesigners.com/Tips/org%20chart.JPG Happy Project Team: http://flickr.com/photos/grazi/204789193/