PMBoK® 6 Edition PMBoK® Guide 6th edition. PMI Cyprus Chapter January 18 Andreas Solomou PMP®...

PMI Cyprus Chapter January 18

Andreas Solomou PMP®

PMBoK® 6th Editionnew & revised elements

Andreas Solomou

Remember?

It is not just a standard!



Why change?

Regulatory requirements (ANSI)

Address the market needs

Foundations

PMI was founded in 1969 on the premise that there were many management practices that were common to project in diverse application areas (pharmaceutical, construction etc.)



1981

A project with the focus to collect and document the “best practice” with the aim to develop a standard

3 areas of focus

Ethics

Standards

Accreditation

PMBoK® 1st Issue

1983: A special report titled the “Ethics, Standards, and Accreditation Committee Final Report”

1987: The first issue

6 Knowledge Areas

90 Pages



1996

Pages 176 Knowledge Areas 9 Processes 37

2000


2004

Pages 390Knowledge Areas 9 Processes 44

2009


2013


PMBoK® 6th Edition

800 pages (+ the Agile Practice Guide)



What’s New?

What's New?



Who is Who?

Agile Alliance is a nonprofit organization committed to:

• supporting people who explore and apply Agile values, principles, and practices

• to make building software solutions more effective, humane, and sustainable

Manifesto for Agile Software Development

How is the Guide Structured?

User Friendly

Informal and relaxed writing style

Side bars

Case studies

Tips



What’s for?

Implementing agile approaches at

• a project or

• team level

What’s in it?

Popular agile approaches

Mapping of Agile to the PMBoK® guide processes and knowledge areas

NO change or modification to the PMBoK®

Guide



What’s in it?

Guidance, Techniques, approaches

NOT Descriptive

What’ out of it

NO coverage of niche or company specific techniques

Does not recommend and support any specific technique

NOT suitable for implementing agile across the organisation



Chapter 2

What is Agile®?

Definable work Vs High-Uncertainty Work

Explore feasibility in short cycles and quickly adapt based on evaluation and feedback

The Agile Manifesto®

“Agile is a mind-set defined by values, guided by principles and manifested through many different practices”.



Life cycle selection

Predictive Iterative Incremental Agile

3



Predictive

Agile

Agile

What the guide suggests?

Agile Agile Agile Predictive Predictive

Agile Agile Agile Agile Agile Agile Agile

Predictive Predictive Predictive Predictive

Predictive Predictive Predictive

Agile Agile Agile

Agile Agile Agile

Predictive Predictive



Implementing Agile

Start with the Mind-set (understand it)

Servant Leadership (Relationship Managers)

Manage relationships to build communication and coordination withinthe team and across the organisation

The Role of the PM

The value of Project Managers is not in their position, but in their ability to make everyone else better



Characteristics of Servant Leaders

• Promoting Self-awareness

• Listening

• Serving those on the team

• Helping people grow

• Coaching vs Controlling

• Promoting safety, respect and trust

• Promoting energy and intelligence of others

Agile Teams

Self managing

Range in size (3 to 9)

Ideally collocated



Workspaces

Co-located

“Caves and Common”

Virtual teams

Get together frequently

Implementing Agile

Delivering in an Agile environment

Common Agile Practices

Retrospectives

Backlog Preparation and Refinement

Daily stand-ups and Review

Planning (Epics – User Stories)

Execution strategies (Test driven development – Spikes

5



Tools and Techniques

Charting:Burn-down (or Burn-up) charts

Cumulative Flow Diagram

Kanban Boards

Earned Value in Agile

Agile and Organisational change

Readiness

Culture

Structures and Frameworks

Organisational Structure, Governance (e.g. Programs), PMOs

Scrum, SaFE, Kanpan

6



Annexes

PMBoK® Guide Mapping

Describes what stays the same and what may be different along with some guidelines to consider increasing the likelihood of success



Agile Manifesto Mapping

How the elements of the Agile Manifesto are covered in the Agile Practice guide



Attributes that influence Tailoring

Very large project teams

Dispersed Teams

Teams in functional silos

Nature of the product (Safety critical, stable requirements)

Terms and Language

/….

PMBoK® Guide 6th

edition



Changes

Some new things

Some changes/modifications

What’s new in the PMBoK® Guide

The Structure

Streamlined and organised - Separated into Parts



Part 1

1. Introduction (Notice the Tailoring section)

2. Environment (Better organised)

3. The role of the Project Manager

4 to 13. Knowledge Areas

Introduction

Simplified wording

Streamlined explanations

More examples



Tailoring

What emphasis to put on each process?

Extended paragraph in Part 1

Tailoring Considerations paragraph in every Knowledge Area

Considerations for Agile/Adaptive Environments

Some concepts expanded

Business Value

Phases

Tailoring

Data Vs. Information

Project Management Business Documents (New)

Business Case

Project Benefits Management Plan



Chapter 2 Environment

Streamlined – Better flow of information

Factors clearly distinguished

Organisational structures

The usula +

Organic or Simple

Multidivisional (replication of functions within divisions)

Hybrid

Virtual

PMO (those that have a PMO)



The role of the Project Manager

17 Pages

Part 2

The Standard itself by Process Group



What’s New (within the standard)

3 New Processes

Manage Project knowledge

Implement Risk Responses

Control Resources

1 Process Removed

Close Procurement

(49 Processes in all)

What has Changed?

1 Knowledge Area Name change



Changes in the Structure

One activity has moved from one knowledge area to another.

Remember how you apply processes?

Why the Changes in the Names?

To emphasise facilitating rather than controlling

Monitor Vs. Control



Appendices

New Appendix InformationSummary of Key Concepts

Summary of Tailoring Considerations

Summary of Tools & Techniques

Adaptive & Iterative Approaches

New (and extended) tools set

New strategy in Risk Management

Earned Value Management extended

Extended explanation on tools & techniques with examples (Graphs, Charts)

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