This video, produced by Hamid Shojaee, offers a quick, yet very informative view of scrum. Scrum is an incremental approach to project management in which the major roles include the scrum master (essentially the project manager), the product owner (or stakeholders), and the team (designers, developers, testers).
The image below gives a visual to the scrum process.
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Why talk about deploying
Project Management Software?
n 1999 PMI survey study MS Project ranked as most popular PM tool, lowest in overall satisfaction and lower than MS Word as most frequently used PM tool
n “Less than 30% of all change efforts actually succeed in meeting the expectations of key stakeholders.”
Conquering Organizational Change by Pierrie Mourier & Martin Smith
“… the most frequent, but often overlooked cause of implementation problems is ignoring people issues.”
from a 5 year study by Cavanaugh Leahy & Co. 1999
Successfully Deploying PM Software
n Missionaries, the gospel of productivity and Cannibals
n Isaac Newton, Thomas Kuhn and the Deployment Wall
n Deployment as PM and the Technology Usage ladder
n Change Management and the Push-Pull leadership model
Missionaries, Cannibals
and the gospel of productivity
n Early adopters as missionaries for improved productivity
n Missionaries eaten by cannibals within first six months
n Most people adopt software if easy and mandated, not to be more productive
n The BIG SECRET ABOUT DEPLOYING SOFTWARE–
“it’s not productivity, it’s a combination of change management and leadership”
Isaac Newton’s (1642-1727) perspective on software deployment
n 1st Law:
An object maintains its state of uniform motion unless it is acted upon by an external unbalanced force.
n Translation: The Power of Habit
People maintain and are at rest in their patterns unless activated by an external “unbalanced” (i.e. judged to be not-fair) force
Isaac Newton’s (1642-1727) perspective on software deployment
n 2nd Law:
The acceleration of an object varies directly as the external unbalanced force applied to it and inversely as its mass.
n Translation: Implementation Speed
How fast users adopt new software and incorporate change will vary directly with
(a) how much force is applied and
(b) how much resistance to change exists/remains.
Isaac Newton’s (1642-1727) perspective on software deployment
n 3rd Law:
For every action force there is an opposite and equal reaction force in the opposite direction on the object exerting the action force
n Translation: Push Back
For every new software deployment effort, there will be an opposite and equal force applied to the change effort… the question is only who will persevere
Isaac Newton “take-aways”
Thomas Kuhn (1962)
“Structure of Scientific Revolution”
n Paradigms Rule:
One’s paradigm predetermines the conclusions about reality, and new facts that don’t fit an existing paradigm are ignored
n Translation: Rejection Response
Introducing new software into a person’s work system that is already defined by a paradigm of customary processes, steps and preferred tools – will evoke a rejection response
n “Most people when confronted with either changing their mind or proving why they don’t have to… get busy on the proof.”
John Galbraith
Thomas Kuhn (1962)
“Structure of Scientific Revolution”
n Crises & Paradigm Shifts
Paradigm shifts seldom occur as soon as a new paradigm is invented, but rather only when the old one is shown to be inadequate
n Translation: “Shake it Up”
Introducing new software changes paradigms, the success of which is dependent upon proving the “old” is inadequate