If your organization is looking to realize the time, quality, and cost benefits of agile project management, we can help you get there. Adoption of Agile practices in project management is growing at an astonishing rate - roughly 10% per year.
Waterfall project management has served us well for many years but as companies need to execute faster respond to change Waterfall hasn’t been able to keep up. The key difference between Agile and Waterfall is the type of process control in use. In Waterfall, you're using defined process controls also known as phase gates.
There are phase gates at every stage of the process. What this means is that at each step you're asking for approval to move to the next phase. The scope is defined at the beginning and can't be changed once development starts. The difference with Agile is you're re-setting scope and priority every two to four weeks. You're doing this to ensure that your work is aligned to the highest value business needs all the time.
In this case study a client needed to be able to respond to their customer’s ever changing needs and they needed to do it rapidly. Furthermore, management wanted this change to be permanent and the norm for all future projects whether they by software development or product development.
Enterprise Systems and Services assisted the client with a pilot project from project inception, developing product backlog and the project plan to implement the software product using the Agile Scrum methodology.
The PM acted as the Project Manager as well as the Scrum Master. The objective was to execute on a project while training the Project Managers, Scrum Masters and Developers so that they could become self-sufficient to run future projects.
Sprints were defined in 2 & 4 week increments, with initially 25 user stories in the backlog. By the time the project was fully implemented there were two Scrum Masters, two Project Managers and 10 developers trained and ready to begin running their own projects and provide guidance and leadership to other projects in the company.
Enterprise Systems and Services provides a range of consulting services aimed at helping clients successfully manage technology projects. We can help scope and design the project plans, consult on Agile methodologies and supply experienced project managers.