Adult Behavior on Projects Tim Lister. Civil rights Strong Presence in Vietnam.

Adult Behavioron

Projects

Tim Lister

Civil rights

StrongPresence inVietnam

I am a Risk Management Zealot

I am a Team Zealot

I like to think…

RiskMgmt

People ware

Agility

MyTalk

Do Great High Jumpers Compete at 1.25 meters?

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 8.0Will be ready when you need it!

Avoiding a risk usually lowers

the value of the product.

(Value inside a Risk.)

What Does it Costto Build a Swimming Pool?

2 Ways to Think About Risk…

• A risk is a potential problem.

• 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.

2 Ways to Think About Risk…

I’ve never met an unlucky project.

Oh, thaton-comingtrain!

A Look at Agility withyour RM goggles on…

Incremental-ism is a greatrisk mitigation strategy.


On time, in budget, in scope ≠ success


How does Iteration 0 work? Maybe a risk assessment atits end?


We are not recording secretaries.

Gathering requirements???

Here’s a prettyorange requirement.I’ll take it back toThe office.

Many requirements are invented.

UserRequirement?

Agility through yourPeopleware goggles…

Nothing beatsface-to-face.


Nothing beatsworking on onlyone project.


Nothing beatsworking hard,and then goinghome.

RiskMgmt

People ware

Agility

What’s at the intersectionof these three?

An attempt to increaseour chances for success.

But we must admit to…

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

How can we accept projectsformulated to fail?

Everybody smells it right away.Everybody hunkers down.

Who’s to blame for thisloathsome situation?

Me, and my generation.

The joy of success. It lets you:try hardlearnexperimenthave pride

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?

For starters:

We all need to declare the smell as soon asit 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?

Never lose the feeling…

Tim ListerThe Atlantic Systems Guild, Inc.353 West 12 StreetNew York NY 10014212 [email protected]

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Adult Behavior on Projects Tim Lister. Civil rights Strong Presence in Vietnam.

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