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Geographically Distributed Agile Teams Have Choices for Their Lifecycles
I hope that by now you see that you have any number of choices for your lifecycle if you are geographically distributed team and you are transitioning to agile. I do recommend a servant leader agile project manager, for coordination … Continue reading
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Agile Lifecycles for Geographically Distributed Teams, Part 3
Example 3: Using a Project Manager with Iterations and Kanban and Silo’d Teams Here, the developers were in Cambridge, MA, the product owners were in San Francisco, the testers were in Bangalore, and the project manager was always flying somewhere, … Continue reading
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Agile Lifecycles for Geographically Distributed Teams, Part 2
Example 2: Using a Project Manager with Kanban, Silo’d Teams This is a product development organization with developers in Italy, testers in India, more developers in New York, product owners and project managers in California. This organization first tried iterations, … Continue reading
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Agile Lifecycles for Geographically Distributed Teams, Part 1
I’ve been working with geographically distributed and dispersed teams for the past couple of years. Some of them on quite large programs, some of them reasonably small. What they all have in common is that they all want to transition … Continue reading
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Which Program Team Are You Managing?
Some program managers whose organizations are transitioning to agile are not always clear on which program team they are managing. Sometimes, that’s because the organization doesn’t always realize they need more than one program team. If you are coordinating and … Continue reading
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Agile, Power, and Culture
As I work with more organizations and across more cultures, I’ve been realizing that agile exposes a huge piece of the power in the organization that many people may not want exposed. I didn’t have a name for until I … Continue reading
Agile is Not a Silver Bullet
Agile and lean approaches, with either short timeboxes or explicit limiting work in progress and a focus on transparency works for many organizations. In the past few weeks, I’ve received a number of inquiries from all sizes of organizations asking … Continue reading
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