Has anyone heard of cases where Agile Approach had been attempted in the Energy Industry? If there are specific cases in Upstream (oil and gas) Energy I would be interested to learn more about it.

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Veerachai Suvarnapruksa Facility Support Engineer| PTT Exploration & Production PLC Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand

The team that I am working in have been practicing Waterfall Project Management Approach for years. When I told them that I am pursuing PMI-ACP certification, they became interested in knowing more about using Agile/Adaptive Approach. But before they jump in with both feet, they wonder if the energy industry (Chevron, BP, Shell, etc.) had ever ventured to try to move developing energy industry-specific Agile Approach that they can learn from?

Posted: Dec 23, 2021 10:04 PM

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Sergio Luis Conte Helping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based Organizations Buenos Aires, Argentina

While I know there is a big and accepted mistake about the use waterfall and Agile words (waterfall is a life cycle, Agile is an approach. You can use Agile approach in waterfall life cycles) I will say that I used Agile approach with waterfall and iterative-incremental life cycle in oild and gas, basically in two of the most important companies which belongs to brasilian and argentinian goverment. I can not put details here but it is easy: just do not confuse Agile with a method. But if you like to focus on a method search for case of studies of using DSDM in british government.

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Dec 28, 2021 2:41 AM

Veerachai Suvarnapruksa

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Thanks for your feedback. Without getting into specific details ... were you able to apply Agile approach recently? Like 2021? What were some of the benefits / lessons learned from that last application? Specifically, were either People, Process, Technology, and/or Cost/Time/Resource/Quality impacted?

Posted: Dec 24, 2021 4:46 AM

Kiron Bondale Retired | Mentor| Retired Welland, Ontario, Canada

Veerachai -

A quick Google search surfaced these links - I'm sure there are many more out there...

https://www.accenture.com/us-en/blogs/acce...stream-business

https://journals.alambiblio.com/ojs/index..../article/view/5

An adaptive approach is inherently well suited to situations where there is great uncertainty which is common in upstream energy situations, especially during the identification of energy resources.

Kiron

Posted: Dec 24, 2021 7:27 AM

Veerachai Suvarnapruksa Facility Support Engineer| PTT Exploration & Production PLC Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand

Dec 24, 2021 4:46 AM

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Posted: Dec 28, 2021 2:41 AM (Updated by author: Dec 28, 2021 2:48 AM)

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Has anyone heard of cases where Agile Approach had been attempted in the Energy Industry? If there are specific cases in Upstream (oil and gas) Energy I would be interested to learn more about it.

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