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10 Evolutionary Project Management Principles - Evo Principle 7
November 4, 2008 | Author: PM Hut | Filed under: Agile Project Management, Project Management Best Practices
10 Evolutionary Project Management Principles - Evo Principle 7 (#8 in the series 10 Evolutionary Project Management (Evo) Principles)
By Tom Gilb
The Evo project team will focus their energy, as a team, towards success in the current Evo step. They will succeed or fail in the current step, together. They will not waste energy on downstream steps until they have mastered current steps successfully.
Discussion
Evo demands interdisciplinary teamwork. All aspects of development must be fused continuously and frequently in order to deliver useful value to stakeholders at an Evo step. The team must learn how to deliver successfully ‘in the small’. Bad ideas need to get dropped early - and cannot permeate the entire project. Authority is really pushed down to the team level. You don’t need approval for things that might be large-scale risks for the entire project. You need to prove they work early in practice and continuously. If they don’t, you need immediate inter-step changes to something that does work for real.
Tom Gilb is a freelance consultant, teacher and author serving clients mainly in Europe and the US. He has books in print: “Competitive Engineering”, “Principles of Software Engineering Management” and “Software Inspection”. He specializes in software engineering, systems engineering, and technical management. He resides in Norway and London. His most recent papers, book manuscripts and slides are available on www.gilb.com.
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