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Managing Programs With Agile and Traditional Projects
Imagine you are transitioning to agile. You are a program manager, with a couple of agile projects, and a couple of traditional projects. How do you manage the program? Here’s what a program team looks like. For the sake of … Continue reading
Agile is Not for Everyone
Someone asked me again about self-assessments for their agile transition. That got me thinking about this problem of transitioning to agile. I don’t believe agile is for everyone in every circumstance. Some people claim agile has “crossed the chasm.” Certainly, … Continue reading
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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Is the Cost of Continuous Integration Worth the Value on Your Program?, Part 3
To continue our story from part 1 and part 2… The teams have determined their individual impediments to Continuous Integration. You, as the technical program manager, and the technical program team can take those impediments, with input from the teams … Continue reading
Is the Cost of Continuous Integration Worth the Value on Your Program?, Part 2
Let’s set the context (which I did not do in my most recent post–sorry). A program is composed of several feature teams, which may well be working on several projects or different feature sets. I assume they are. The goal … Continue reading
Is the Cost of Continuous Integration Worth the Value on Your Program?, Part 1
I like continuous integration. A lot. I started being an aficionado of continuous integration back in my senior year of university . It was my very first (and last) team project in my college career. There were three of us. … 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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