Zven specializes in the development of the Value- Driven Agile approach for Project Management with the following essential tasks:
- Minimizing the project cycle
- Establishing the strategic and technological equilibrium
- Evaluating the status and reporting progress
- Developing strategies for Issue and risk mitigation
- Implementing, overseeing and enforcing management methodology
- Prioritizing the project portfolio
Zven believes that the basic phases of an agile development project are really no different from those of any other project. The basic steps of Agile Project Management still define:
- Initiate the project
- Plan for the project
- Execute the plan
- Monitor and control the results
But, the manners in which these steps are accomplished are different and require the project manager to plan and devise what they know about traditional management to a new way of thinking – the thinking of complex adaptive systems.
The practices outlined below provides the framework that Project Managers are required to adhere while working with this approach:
- Guiding Vision Futuristic approach in terms of projects and business rather than an elusive destination. This results in vision continuously guiding and influencing behavior in positive ways.
- Teamwork and Collaboration Recognizing individual team members as intelligent, skilled professional agents and placing a value on their autonomy is fundamental to all other practices.
- Simple and Clear Approach Establishing the strategic and technological equilibrium, developing strategies for Issue, change request and risk management.
- Open Information Open information in organizing team that allows to adapt and react to changing conditions of the project. It is achieved through Open and clear communication and reporting mechanism.
- Agile Vigilance It implies continuously monitoring, learning and adapting to the environment
- Constant Engagement Agile methods ensure that the engagement with the customer and clients are more than the regular methods thus reducing the chances of any misunderstanding or miscommunication during the project execution.