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Inception Deck Purpose • Designed to: – Eliminate confusion and misunderstanding about what this project is about – Shine a big spot light on areas of potential conflict and misalignment – Highlight challenges BEFORE the project begins – Are we all in agreement? * Original Inception deck created by Robin Gibson of Thought. Works, based on the work of Rob Thomsett (Radical Project Management) © 2008, Rasmusson Software Consulting, All rights reserved

Review stakeholder objectives • Departmental objectives – Reduce number of support calls by 20% – Increase market share – Support business – Share knowledge • Empathize, learn and understand what’s driving your stakeholders © 2008, Rasmusson Software Consulting, All rights reserved

2. Create an Elevator Pitch • • For [target customer] who [statement of the need or opportunity] the [product name] is a [product category] that [key benefit, compelling reason to buy] unlike [primary competitive alternative] our product [statement of primary differentiation]. © 2008, Rasmusson Software Consulting, All rights reserved

Example - Silicon Graphics • For [post production film engineers] • who [are dissatisfied with the limitations of traditional film editors] • the [SGI workstation] • is a [digital film editor] • that [lets you modify film images any way you choose]. • Unlike [workstations from Sun, HP, or IBM] • our product [has all the interfaces needed for post-production film editing]. © 2008, Rasmusson Software Consulting, All rights reserved

Example - Quicken • • • For [the bill-paying member of the family] who [is tired of filling out the same old checks] the [computer program Quicken] is a [PC home finance program] that [automatically creates and tracks all your check-writing]. • Unlike [Managing you Money] • our product [is optimized specifically for home bill -paying]. © 2008, Rasmusson Software Consulting, All rights reserved

Features don’t sell – benefits do Feature Benefit 245 Hp Engine Pass safely on the highway Anti-lock breaks Brake safely with loved ones Cruise control Save $$$ © 2008, Rasmusson Software Consulting, All rights reserved

Objectives and Scope IS IS NOT (but could be) • [In scope project objectives here] • [Out of scope project objectives here] UNRESOLVED • [Unresolved project objectives here] © 2008, Rasmusson Software Consulting, All rights reserved

Organizational Context Business Entities IT Entities The Application Entity 1 Functional area 1 Entity 1 Functional area n External Entities Entity n Entity 1 Entity n © 2008, Rasmusson Software Consulting, All rights reserved

Logical Scope In Scope Out of Scope Users Existing Systems The Application Legacy Functional area 1 Mainframe Operations Support External Systems Functional area n 3 rd Party DB Other initiatives Accounting App DB Message Queue Reporting Enterprise Bus (SOA) © 2008, Rasmusson Software Consulting, All rights reserved

Technical Vision Thin Client Services Domain Logic Web Services Accounts Ledgers Trades Mainframe Main Page Client-side Create New Security Customer Validation All trades Apollo Update existing Search by Id Remove 3 rd Party Tools ELT Trans. Complex Calcs Transform. Layer Data Access Layer Batch 3 rd Party Tools SQL Server NHibernate Databases Message Queue Order clearing house Pending Orders DB 1 Database Content DB listens updates DB 2 Hercules DB N © 2008, Rasmusson Software Consulting, All rights reserved

High-Level Risks • What could go wrong? – Is there anything we can do about it? • Eliminate what you can – Technical spikes / prototype • Then move on • Don’t get hung-up (awareness) © 2008, Rasmusson Software Consulting, All rights reserved

Remember the Lord’s Serenity Prayer Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, The Courage to change things I can, And the wisdom to know the difference. - The Serenity prayer © 2008, Rasmusson Software Consulting, All rights reserved

What will it take - Project Staffing # Role Competencies 1 Project Manager • Solid Agile Project Management experience • Financial services experience a plus 6 Developers • J 2 EE/STRUTS/ANT • Infrastructure set-up (CC, Functional testing) 2 Analysts • XP-style Story Cards (testable, traceable, etc) • Test script creation • Iterative analysis experience 1 Customer • Able to make decisions • Source of truth 1 QA • Automated Testing expertise © 2008, Rasmusson Software Consulting, All rights reserved

11. Trade-Off Sliders ON OFF Feature completeness ON OFF Stay within budget ON OFF Deliver the project on time ON OFF High quality, low defects ON OFF Increase profitability by 10% ON OFF Make business ecstatic ON OFF Delight customers © 2008, Rasmusson Software Consulting, All rights reserved

Project Estimates • • Internal Release 0. 5 Estimates: – 12 weeks staffed as follows • Xxx Remainder of Release 1 guesstimated at 9 weeks Remaining releases guessed – via extrapolation from Story count – at 46 weeks These numbers will be reassessed following Iteration 2, IR 0. 5 and R 1 © 2008, Rasmusson Software Consulting, All rights reserved

Key things to remember • Set people’s expectations early – Be clear on time commitment – Use mornings for discussion – Afternoons for offline refinement • Demand stakeholder involvement • Be flexible • Certain exercises won’t finish in time allocated (you will need to iterate) © 2008, Rasmusson Software Consulting, All rights reserved

Agile Project Management Training Agile Intro Agile Project Inception Fundamentals Roles and Responsibilities Team Practices Iteration Planning Iteration Mechanics Analysis / Dev / Test Sync Points Building the first plan Story gathering Estimation/Prioritization The first plan Tracking Velocity Big visible charts Status reports Retrospections Wrap-up Transition Support © 2008, Rasmusson Software Consulting, All rights reserved