DSDM® - Agile Project Management - a (still) unknown alternative full of advantages

An introduction to the AgilePM® method, which combines the best of classical project management and agile product development

Robert M. Richards

• Publisher: Books on Demand
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9783754396599
• eBook ISBN: 9783752636635
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Management
• Index: Business

Everyone is talking about agility and praising it as THE approach for successful project management. However, many approaches offer hardly any methods for external steering, budgeting, reporting, controlling. Many only cover the development process and leave it to the users to add further parts as needed. This repeatedly leads to the desire for hybrid project management, which combines agile development with project control and planning. However, most hybrid approaches are patchwork. Different philosophies are cobbled together, some of which contradict each other. DSDM® is different here. The method is completely based on agile approaches, but not only covers production, but also offers project planning, project steering and controlling, risk management and reporting with a goal-oriented role and responsibility management.In this booklet, the book author, himself an expert in DSDM® for many years, offers the reader a good overview of the method and shows why many more companies should get to grips with it.

Table of Contents

• Preliminary note
• Foreword
• Introduction to agility
  • The "Agile Manifesto
  • Twelve principles of the Agile Manifesto
• AgilePM - Basics
  • The elements of DSDM
  • 'Enough Design Up Front' (EDUF).
  • The benefits of DSDM for project success
  • Projects and project variables
    • Introduction
    • Understanding project variables
• The principles of DSDM
  • Introduction
  • Principle 1 - Focus on the business need
  • Principle 2 - Deliver on time
  • Principle 3 - Work together
  • Principle 4 - Don't compromise on quality
  • Principle 5 - Build progressively on solid foundations
  • Principle 6 - Develop iteratively
  • Principle 7 - Communicate continuously and clearly
  • Principle 8 - Demonstrate control
• ISF's - Instrumental Success Factors
  • Acceptance of the DSDM approach
  • An effective solution development team
  • Entrepreneurial commitment - active and continuous
  • Iterative development, integrated testing and step-by-step implementation
  • Transparency
• The DSDM process
  • Pre-Project Phase
  • Feasibility phase
  • Foundation Phase
  • Evolutionary Development Phase
  • Deployment phase
  • Post-Project Phase
• Roles and responsibilities
  • Roles at project level
  • Roles of the Solution Development Team
  • Supporting roles
• The individual roles and their responsibilities
  • Roles with business focus
    • Business Sponsor
    • Business Visionary
    • Business Advisor
    • Business Ambassador
    • Business Analyst
  • Roles with management focus
    • Project Manager
    • Team Leader
  • The roles with technical focus
    • Technical Coordinator
    • Technical Advisor
    • Business Analyst
    • Solution Developer
    • Solution Tester
  • Roles with process focus
    • Workshop Facilitator
    • DSDM Coach
• Methods and techniques
  • MoSCoW - Prioritization
  • Timeboxing
  • Iterative development
  • Modeling & Prototyping
  • Facilitated Workshops
• The DSDM products in the course of the project
  • Terms of Reference
  • Feasibility Assessment
  • Business Case
  • Prioritised Requirements List
  • Solution Architecture Definition
  • Development Approach Definition
  • Management Approach Definition
  • Foundations Summary
  • Evolving Solution
  • Timebox plan
  • Timebox Review Record
  • Project Review Report
  • Benefits Assessment
• Agile control
  • Risk Management
  • Requirements Management
    • User Stories
    • User Stories - The 3-C Approach
    • User Stories - INVEST Pattern
    • The Business Analyst
  • Estimate
• Success factors and adaptation possibilities of DSDM
  • The Project Approach Questionnaire (PAQ) - Assessing Options and Risks
  • Statement 1: "All members of the project understand and accept the DSDM approach (philosophy, principles and practices)."
  • Statement 2: "The Business Sponsor and Business Visionary clearly and proactively take ownership of the project."
  • Statement 3: "The corporate vision behind the project is clearly stated and understood by all members of the project team."
  • Statement 4: "All project participants understand and accept the importance of submitting an acceptable solution on time as a primary success factor."
  • Statement 5: "Requirements can be prioritized and there is confid...

Table of contents

• Table of Contents
• Preliminary note
• Foreword
• Introduction to agility
• AgilePM - Basics
• The principles of DSDM
• ISF's - Instrumental Success Factors
• The DSDM process
• Roles and responsibilities
• The individual roles and their responsibilities
• Methods and techniques
• The DSDM products in the course of the project
• Agile control
• Success factors and adaptation possibilities of DSDM
• Afterword
• Copyright