Gateway reviews - waterfall based or agile ready?

Brian Wernham

Gateway reviews:

Waterfall biased or Agile ready?

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What is

‘Agile’? ‘Agile’ only for

web

development? ‘Agile’ only for

tiny stuff? ‘Agile’ = loss of

control?

Gated assurance

processes for

agile projects?

What is

‘DSDM’?

‘Agile’ in

mission critical

projects?

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What is

‘Scrum’?

This talk:

What are Gateway reviews?

What is ‘Agile’?

Can a Gated approach be used to assure

‘Agile’ projects?

… and what about complex change

programmes?

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Waterfall projects drive a waterfall

assurance approach…

Traditional

Project

Design

Build

Test

Deploy

White box

Assurance

‘P’ Level

Process

Assurance

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What is the waterfall approach?

Why does it often cause

problems on innovation projects?

What are Gateway Reviews?

Do Gateway reviews reinforce weaknesses

in the waterfall model?

Waterfall - Let’s dig deeper…

The “Big Design Up Front”

mind-set

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I had better ask for all

possible features…

At last – a chance to get what I

want!

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The Big Design Up Front is born…

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The result of Big Design Up

Front…

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As difficult as trying to swim up a

waterfall…

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Gateway reviews – as interpreted

for waterfall projects

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Acronyms:

- Strategic Outline Case (SOC)

- Outline Business Case (OBC)

- Full Business Case (FBC)

Source: Welsh Government 2012

What does an ‘Agile’ project look

like:

- a governance perspective

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Innovation

project

P/type

P/type

P/type

P/type

Examples of Agile Methods

- A project level method: ‘DSDM’

15 Source: DSDM Consortium (DSDM = Driving Strategy, Delivering More)

Examples of Agile Methods

- A team level method: ‘Scrum’

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Source: Mike Cohn

‘Agile’ projects invert the ‘iron-

triangle’:

17 Source: DSDM Consortium

Don’t be slaves to process!

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Be outcome focussed:

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‘O’ for Outcome Assurance…

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‘P’ Level

Process

Assurance

Taking an appropriate assurance

approach…

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Traditional

Project

Innovation

project Hybrid

Programme

Design

Build

Test

Deploy

P/type

P/type

P/type

P/type

White box

Assurance

Hybrid

Assurance

Black box

Assurance

Innovation

Project

Innovation

Project

Traditional

Project

Traditional

Project

Hybrid Gate Assurance?

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Project

Programme Gateway Reviews

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‘O’

Annual ‘O’ Gates

Gates 1-5 repeated

for each project

Gate 0 repeated

annually

‘P’ level

Process

Assurance

‘O’ Level

Outcome

Assurance

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Source: Welsh Government 2012 – amended to correctly show iterative Gates O

Managing and assuring agile/waterfall hybrid

change programmes – a recent article…

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