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2. Start and finish Course style
LunchCoffee and breaks
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3.  The underpinning philosophy and principles of
DSDM Atern
 The lifecycle of an DSDM Atern project
 The products produced by DSDM Atern project
 DSDM Atern roles and responsibilities
 DSDM Atern techniques and their benefits and
limitations
 The mechanisms for control and how to test,
estimate and measure progress in an Agile project
Main goal
 Attempt Foundation exam with confidence
 Communicate freely within DSDM project,
understanding its principles and philosophy
Secondary goal
 Benefits and value of Agile and DSDM Atern
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4.  Let’s Get to Know Each Other
 Please share with the class:
 Your name and surname
 Your organization
 Your profession (title, function, job responsibilities)
 Your familiarity with the project management
 Your familiarity with the agile project
management
 Your experience with DSDM/Scrum
 Your personal session expectations
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5.  Foundation Exam
 Paper based and closed book exam
 Only pencil and eraser are allowed
 Simple multiple (ABCD) choice exam
 Only one answer is correct
 60 questions, pass mark is 30 (50%)
 1 hour exam
 No negative points, no “Tricky Questions”
 No pre-requisite for Foundation exam
 Sample, two (official) mock exams are
provided to you
Candidates completing an examination in a language that
is not their mother tongue, will receive additional time
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6. DSDM Atern syllabus section code and title
LP Lifecycle and Products
PR People and Roles
TE Techniques
CO Control
Handbook Page
Module slide number / total module slides
Slide number /
total slides
Module number
and name
DSDM Atern
handbook page
DSDM Atern syllabus
section code
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Simulation …
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9. 1. Defining Agile and DSDM
2. DSDM philosophy and principles
3. DSDM roles and responsibilities
4. DSDM project lifecycle, phases, products
5. Techniques
6. Requirements definition and prioritization
7. Requirements estimating and timeboxing
8. Delivering quality
9. Project control and risk management
10. Testing
11. Configuration management
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10.  A philosophy and a mindset
 Flexibility, agility, adaptability, incremental delivery,
iterative cycle, fast feedback
 Working closely, constantly with users and customer
 Ensuring final solution actually meets business needs
 Focusing on business value/outcome not strictly project plan/output
 Focusing on value delivery not on fixed specification
 Deferring decisions about details as late as possible
 No “big design up front” (BDUF), in place of “enough design up front” (EDUF)
“If a process is too unpredictable or too complicated for the planned, (predictive)
approach, then the empirical approach (measure and adapt) is the method of choice“
Ken Schwaber
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11. Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM)
Agile Unified Process (AUP)
Open Unified Process (OpenUP)
Large-scale Scrum (LeSS)
Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD)
Scrum at Scale (Scrum@Scale)
Scrum-of-Scrums
…
Scrum
Lean software development
Kanban (process + method)
Extreme Programming (XP)
Continuous Integration (CI)
Continuous Delivery (CD)
Feature-driven development (FDD)
Test Driven Development (TDD)
Crystal Clear
…
Fuller Approaches
(but still Agile)
Lightweight Approaches
(no project definition)
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13. Agile
(empirical/adaptive process control model)
Traditional
(defined/deterministic process control model)
People and Interactions over Processes and Tools
Working Software over Comprehensive Documentation
Customer Collaboration over Contract Negotiation
Responding to Change over Following a Plan
“We are uncovering better ways of developing software by
doing it and helping others do it”
Through this work we have come to value
While there is value in the items on the right; we value the items on the left more.
(but Agile is not just about delivering software, it applies to all types of project)
www.agilemanifesto.org
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14.  Approaches typically call for a significant
amount of formality and detail
 Big Design Up Front (BDUF)
 Requirements are captured in a formal set
of documents which follow standardized
templates
 This may be preceded by a number of
detailed requirements related documents,
built with increasing levels of detail,
including a high level vision and low level
functional requirements documents
 Relevant stakeholders must generally
formally approve each of these documents
before work begins
Sequential /
cascade / waterfall
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15.  Different style of management (compared
to traditional (a.k.a. waterfall))
 Enabling constant change during elaboration of
the detail
 Continuously correcting course
 Maintaining aim on target -> value (delivering a
usable solution on a fixed date)
 Monitoring progress in a different way
 Measured by delivery of products (not by activity)
 Sustaining the high rate of progress throughout
 Targeting and motivating empowered
teams (Not directing them)
 Servant Leadership
 Collaboration requires a no-blame culture
 Building culture of team success/failure
Incremental, iterative
and adaptive
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16.  Simple (straightforward)
 Everything is known
 Complicated
 More is known than unknown
 Complex
 More is unknown than known
 Chaotic (unpredictable)
 Very little is known
TECHNOLOGY
REQUIREMENTS
Far from
Agreement
Close to
Agreement
Close to
Certainty
Far from
Certainty
Source: Strategic Management and Organizational Dynamics by Ralph
Stacey in Agile Software Development with Scrum by Ken Schwaber and
Mike Beedle.
Agile thrives
here
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17. Plan Design Code Test Release Review
Decision Demo
Value to business after
deployment
Working solution
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18. Visibility Ability to Change
Business Value Risk
Waterfall
time
time time
time
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19. Project adaptation for
changed/new business
requirements
Project adaptation for
changed/new business
requirements
Project adaptation for
changed/new business
requirements
Plan Design Code Test Release Review
Value to business after
big bang deployment
Plan
Review
Plan
Review
Plan
Review
Plan
Review
Test
Analyse
Test
Analyse
Test
Analyse
Test
Analyse
Value to business after
deployment #1
Value to business after
deployment #2
Value to business after
deployment #3
Value to business after
final deployment #4
Decision Demo Decision Demo Decision Demo Decision Demo
DSDM Atern is not just smaller waterfall! Working solution
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20. Waterfall Agile
Visibility Ability to Change
Business Value Risk
time
time time
time
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21.  Agile project delivery framework that delivers
the right solution at the right time
 Project team and significant stakeholders being
focused on the business outcome
 Delivery is on time ensuring an early ROI
 All people involved work collaboratively to
deliver the optimum solution
 Work is prioritised according to business need
and the ability of users to accommodate
changed in the agreed timescale
 Atern does not compromise on quality i.e. the
solution is not over or under engineered
 Atern Agility
 Atern Flexibility
 Hybrid method combining project
management with product delivery
Lead author:
Keith
Richards
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22.  An Agile Project Delivery Framework that delivers the right
solution at the right time
 Any kind of project
 Focused on business value
 On time and in budget
 Quality and control
 Incremental
 Iterative
 Adaptive
 Collaborative
 Right solution at the right time
 Established and proven integration
with PRINCE2
“True Agile”
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23.  DSDM - The oldest established Agile approach (1994)
 Established and proven integration between DSDM and PRINCE2
 DSDM Atern is owned by the DSDM Consortium
 A not-for-profit organisation
 www.dsdm.org
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25.  What is the requirement or project
context?
 Simple or complex environment?
 Simple product development?
 On-going backlog of features/improvements to be built
 Delivering projects and programmes?
 Full project lifecycle
 Cross project dependencies
 Required compliance with legal requirements
 Minimal formality or within a structured
corporate culture?
 Constant contact with client/business?
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26.  User ownership of the system is more
likely
 Reduces risk of building the wrong system
 abandonware, bloatware, shelfware, fatware
etc.
 The final system is more likely to meet the
users teal business requirements
 Users will be better trained
 Deployments is more likely to go smoothly
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28.  Agile is a style of working and philosophy
 Agile world consists of: methodologies, frameworks, tools,
practices, techniques …
 Unlike a traditional approach, Atern fixes Time, Cost and
Quality at the early phases of a project
 Contingency, in the form of lower priority features,
ensures that on-time delivery of a viable solution
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