August 11 2006
PragmaticAgile at Project Challenge London
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Following RADTAC’s success at the Project Challenge show in Birmingham earlier in the year, Peter Measey (Operations Director) will be making a keynote presentation at the Project Challenge show at London Olympia on 19th September together with Guy Nelson, Quality Manager from RADTAC client Fidelity Investments.
RADTAC have defined and rolled-out agile methods based on DSDM and XP for Fidelity as well as a bespoke project governance and management method based on Prince2. Over 600 Fidelity PMs have been trained by RADTAC in the UK, mainland Europe, India and the Far East and RADTAC helped Fidelity India use the framework to achieve CMMI level 5 - the first financial services organisation to do so.
David Hicks, RADTAC Managing Director said “Taking the idea of Agile into the traditional Project Management community including those outside of IT is precisely what the RADTAC vision of Pragmatic Agile is all about. This event in London looks set to be even more interesting than the earlier one in Birmingham, and we are delighted to have Fidelity alongside us on the stage”
This presentation discusses the key concepts of ‘Agile’ and relates it to the Project Management community. The Information Technology Project Management community have been using agile delivery approaches since the mid 1990s. Agile delivery approaches have been specifically designed to operate effectively in environments where a high level of change volatility and a low level of requirements understanding is likely to be the case. Agile has shown significant success (200% + improvements in productivity) in the software industry, however there have been concerns over it’s applicability across the organisation, the perception is that agile may be good for small non complex projects but cannot be used across a project, programme or organisation. ‘Pragmatic agile’ addresses these issues and integrates together the leading agile approaches into an organisations corporate structures and within the chosen programme and project management methods / frameworks. This means that agile approaches can be used within any project, business or IT related. The presentation will discuss the theory of pragmatic agile and visit some private and public sector case studies where the approach has been used with great success.
