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Adult Behavior on Projects

Adult Behavior on Projects. Tim Lister. Strong Presence in Vietnam. Civil rights. Strong Presence in Vietnam. Civil rights. I am a Risk Management Zealot. I am a Team Zealot. I like to think…. Risk Mgmt. Agility. People ware. My Talk. No. Do Great High Jumpers

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Adult Behavior on Projects

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  1. Adult BehavioronProjects Tim Lister

  2. Strong Presence in Vietnam Civil rights

  3. Strong Presence in Vietnam Civil rights

  4. I am a Risk Management Zealot I am a Team Zealot

  5. I like to think…

  6. Risk Mgmt Agility People ware My Talk

  7. No.

  8. Do Great High Jumpers Compete at 1.25 meters?

  9. We Can’t Avoid Risk... • All projects with benefit but no risk were completed long ago. • You can’t control many of the variables that could be risks. Version 8.0 Will be ready when you need it!

  10. Avoiding a risk usually lowers the value of the product. (Value inside a Risk.)

  11. What Does it Cost to Build a Swimming Pool?

  12. 2 Ways to Think About Risk… • A risk is a potential problem.

  13. 2 Ways to Think About Risk… • A risk is any variable on your project that, • within its normal distribution of possible values, could take on a value that is detrimental, even fatal, to your project.

  14. I’ve never met an unlucky project. Oh, that on-coming train!

  15. A Look at Agility withyour RM goggles on… Incremental-ism is a great risk mitigation strategy.

  16. A Look at Agility withyour RM goggles on… On time, in budget, in scope ≠ success

  17. A Look at Agility withyour RM goggles on… How does Iteration 0 work? Maybe a risk assessment at its end?

  18. A Look at Agility withyour RM goggles on… We are not recording secretaries.

  19. Gathering requirements??? Here’s a pretty orange requirement. I’ll take it back to The office.

  20. Many requirements are invented. User Requirement?

  21. Agility through your Peopleware goggles… Nothing beats face-to-face.

  22. Agility through your Peopleware goggles… Nothing beats working on only one project.

  23. Agility through your Peopleware goggles… Nothing beats working hard, and then going home.

  24. What’s at the intersection of these three? Risk Mgmt Agility People ware

  25. An attempt to increase our chances for success. But we must admit to…

  26. The Dead Fish of Failure… It sits on the table of far too many projects.

  27. How can we accept projects formulated to fail? Everybody smells it right away. Everybody hunkers down.

  28. Who’s to blame for this loathsome situation?

  29. Me, and my generation.

  30. The joy of success. It lets you: try hard learn experiment have pride

  31. I don’t know how to fix this. We need a chance to succeed, not a guarantee. Does the team declare the dead fish? Do managers?

  32. For starters: We all need to declare the smell as soon as it is wafting in the project area. We need to all discuss the damage the Dead Fish does. Is it too much to ask that 50% of our projects should be outright winners?

  33. Never lose the feeling…

  34. Never lose the feeling…

  35. Never lose the feeling…

  36. Never lose the feeling…

  37. Never lose the feeling…

  38. Tim Lister The Atlantic Systems Guild, Inc. 353 West 12 Street New York NY 10014 212 620-4282 lister@acm.org systemsguild.com

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