Evolutionary Project Management

(CSTP Elective)

This tutorial counts as training towards the Certified Software Test Professional requirements.

This tutorial will supply the participant with the pragmatics of doing evolutionary project management. The Evo toolkit. How do you specify objectives that you can evolve towards in small steps? How do you specify designs that can be decomposed into smaller delivery steps? How do you specify and control evolutionary stakeholder-value-delivery steps themselves? The toolkit give practical help.

Evo has major impact on the whole way in which systems engineering is carried out. All systems engineering processes (requirements, design, build, test, and quality control) are suddenly encapsulated into an early and frequent evolutionary result delivery step. If you know what you are doing you will soon produce results for stakeholders. If not, you won't; and must consequently fix your engineering processes and designs.

Outline

  1. The Evo process description: a reusable template.
  2. Basic Evo principles
  3. Principles for decomposing into small Evo steps.
  4. Defined Evo processes
  5. Templates for Quantified Requirements and Quantified Design
  6. Templates for Quantified Evo step specification
  7. Impact Estimation Table Evo project management
  8. Evo Policy template
  9. Organizational considerations when doing Evo
  10. Evo contracting template
  11. (Optional) exercises in Evo planning.

Learning Objectives

  1. Become aware of entirely new ideas.
  2. Be able to evaluate if these apply to their work.
  3. Be aware of how to get more detailed information on the subjects.
  4. Enthuse them with the attractiveness of the ideas presented.
  5. Deliver practical tools to do the job.

Biography:

Tom Gilb won the award for Best Tutorial Speaker, of 18 different tutorials, December 2003 Eurostar Conference, Amsterdam . Award was based on participant feedback forms.

Tom Gilb is an international consultant, teacher and author. His 9 th book is ‘Competitive Engineering' which is a definition of the planning language ‘Planguage'. He works with major multinationals such as HP, IBM, Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola , US DOD , UK MOD, Douglas Aircraft, Boeing, British Aerospace, Microsoft and many others. See his website www.gilb.com for a wide variety of info.

Gilb is recognized as one of the pioneers of teaching and writing about Evo methods ( example Wiki encyclopedia, Craig Larman's History of Iterative methods IEEE Computer, June 2003) and Larman's Book on Iterative methods, By Kent Beck as inspiration for the XP development cycles etc.)