Wattle adopt a Prince 2 Agile framework for the delivery of our projects, combining the project governance of Prince2 with the flexibility of Agile & Scrum. PRINCE2 Agile combines the flexibility and responsiveness of agile with the clearly defined framework of PRINCE2 and provides guidance on how to practically apply both, PRINCE2 and agile, reduce conflict and implement it effectively, so we benefit from the best of both worlds.
We deliver into the third sector, which is a private sector. The DNA of our clients organisations is that they are primarily committee ran (often by boards sometimes even boards of volunteers) and democratised and political in structure. Spend on technology projects is closely governed and the sector mostly insists on following a process of ITT / RFP (invitation to tender or request for proposal) with a formal tender process where they require a defined scope, timescale and budget. If we are successful in our bids we are then asked to contract against the scope and the budget.
Many organisations would leverage Prince 2 or even Waterfall to deliver a fixed price fixed scope project, we do not feel that either strict delivery method is a fit for the successful delivery of technology projects. We know and understand agile practices and feel that agile delivery provides us with the best platform for success. Prince2 Agile helps us to bridge that gap.
We do! We just wrap it with a Prince2 methodology to overlay governance and control to meet the needs of our clients. The real impact here is to our delivery team cover the best of both worlds. The actual delivery teams, engineers, CRM consultants etc simply leverage SCRUM practices during build & delivery with a Scrum master, under the direction of the Project Manager who controls scope, budget, change, risk of the project.
Wattle operate a self managing team structure . We have two key teams that will be involved during the project lifecycle. The Discovery & Analysis team and the Delivery team.
Discovery & Analysis team:
Delivery team: