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Andy Jordan

June 22, 2009





One of the companies that I am working with is a software developer that requires a professional services team to complement its software at client sites. Some of the PMs in the professional services team felt that the nature of the work leant itself to an agile approach to an implementation. They may well be correct, but it raises an interesting question about how you introduce the approach to customers who aren’t familiar with agile.
 
Put yourself in the customer’s position. You have just bought an expensive piece of software, you have a team of consultants coming in to understand your specific needs for the software and configure the solution accordingly. You will have some idea about how that’s likely to work, because it won’t be the first piece of software that you have ever implemented. If the vendor now tries to convince you that there is a better way based on lots of mini-deliverables, you might well need some convincing--especially if the expectation is that the first several deliverables won’t be quite what you need.
 
Selling the benefits
As the project manager, your first task is to help the customer understand why agile is a suitable approach for them.



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