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Adaptable Project Management

A combination of Agile and Project
Management for All (PM4A)

Adaptable Project Management

A combination of Agile and Project
Management for All (PM4A)

COLIN BENTLEY

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Every possible effort has been made to ensure that the information contained in this book is accurate at the time of going to press, and the publisher and the author cannot accept responsibility for any errors or omissions, however caused. Any opinions expressed in this book are those of the author, not the publisher. Websites identified are for reference only, not endorsement, and any website visits are at the readers own risk. No responsibility for loss or damage occasioned to any person acting, or refraining from action, as a result of the material in this publication can be accepted by the publisher or the author.

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Colin Bentley 2020

The author has asserted the rights of the author under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the author of this work.

First published in the United Kingdom in 2020 by IT Governance Publishing.

ISBN 978-1-78778-233-4

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Colin Bentley is the author of the original PRINCE2 manual for the Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency (CCTA). He was the Chief Examiner for the Association for Project Management Group and the CCTA until his retirement.

Colin has had more than 20 books published, has lectured widely on project management and has acted as project management consultant to such firms as The London Stock Exchange, Microsoft Europe, Tesco Stores, Commercial Union and the BBC.

Colin has been working with PRINCE2, PRINCE and its predecessor, PROMPT II, since 1975 and was part of the team that created the original method.

Colin created the PM4A project management method for smaller projects. Feeling that a better method could be found by combining this waterfall method of project management with Agile principles, he has now written Adaptable Project Management, a comprehensive method for handling any size of project, especially those where the scope and detail cannot be seen at the beginning.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS My thanks to Andy Britton for his faith in me and to John - photo 4

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

My thanks to Andy Britton for his faith in me, and to John Fisher for his thoughtful input.

For a long time I have thought about the Parable of the Talents in Matthew 25:1430, and wondered how I could return to the Lord more talents than I was given. Maybe Im wrong, but writing seems to me the best talent that I have been given, so I dedicate this book to the Lord in the hope that it will be judged some kind of return on the talents that he has given me.

I would also like to thank Christopher Wright and Prasad Lele, for their helpful comments during the production of this book.

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt, Macmillan, 2002.

DISCLAIMER

All names and examples quoted in this book are fictitious and have been presented solely for learning, understanding and explaining purposes.

PREFACE

Adaptable Project Management (APM) is my name for the merging of PM4A, a more traditional waterfall project management method, with some aspects of Agile that I think work well in combination,, such as evolutionary development, iteration, timeboxing and communication.

Waterfall methods such as PM4A have been around since the 1960s, whereas some of the key aspects of Agile have only been around since the 1990s. There are now several versions of Agile.

If we are to effectively combine the many excellent features of a good waterfall method of project management with the iterative approach of Agile, then something has to give. What you will see in this book is a modification of some aspects of traditional project management in order to take advantage of the many good points available in Agile.

I have taken some decisions as to which parts of the various Agile offerings to include. One that I like a lot is the Dynamic System Development Method (DSDM) Atern version of Agile, and I would like to acknowledge my inclusion of its eight principles and some of its sensible words.

This is not intended to be full Agile. I think Agile has too many technical terms and is still too wedded to software development to be a genuine all-purpose project management method. I have created something new to be what I think a generic project management method should be, so I have deliberately omitted Agile from the books main title. I include a lot of chapters that I think are good and better than any found elsewhere. The modifications are mine, so dont get overheated if you dont find technical terms like Scrum. Just read it for what it is.

CONTENTS
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION TO ADAPTABLE PROJECT MANAGEMENT
1.1 Who is this book aimed at?

Project managers and stakeholders trying to develop a project management approach suitable for their organisation. Many staff are expected to take on project manage mentor client/product owner roles without any briefing or other support. This book will help to address this gap. It will also benefit any readers doing a project assurance review for the first time.

1.2 Background

I dont want to confuse readers. I understand that Evo Evolutionary Project Management is a term used by Tom Gilb and his partners. I was introduced to Tom Gilbs ideas back in the 1960s and greatly admired his thinking, but this is not a book based on his Evo. It is a combination of the old waterfall methods of project management, such as PRINCE2 and PM4A, and the Agile method of software development.

1.3 Waterfall project development

Waterfall is a name given to traditional projects that follow the format of specify, design, develop, deliver. It is assumed that all the requirements can be defined at the outset and that nothing (or almost nothing) will be delivered to the client until the project finishes.

Project Management for All (PM4A) is a method I created with Andy Britton in the early 2000s. Itis a simple but comprehensive method of project management based on the waterfall method. PM4A is aimed at smaller projects and is very strong in the areas of starting up a project and providing an in-depth view of how to handle quality, risk, version and change control.

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