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Programs, TItles, and Business Value
I keep hearing a lot about “chief” this and “chief” that when it comes to Big Agile, aka program management. You know, chief product owner, chief architect, that kind of thing. I’m kind of puzzled. I thought agile was all … Continue reading
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Tagged agile, architect, lean, product owner, project management, scaling agile, transition to agile
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What Team Does the Product Owner/Responsible Person Belong To?
In my post, When You Have No Product Owner at All, I said That’s because agile needs a responsible person who is not part of the cross-functional technical team to rank the backlog so the team knows the order of … Continue reading
When You Have No Product Owner At All
What happens when you have no product owner at all? How does a team know what features to develop in what order? Several teams I know encountered this. They all had product managers. Most of them had BAs. All of … Continue reading
New Manager, New Product Owner, Too Much Work
I recently spoke with a colleague who’s a little confused. John was just promoted to being the development manager in a small organization. He’s used to doing lots of work—whatever needs to be done, he does. Now, he’s managing 6 … Continue reading
Posted in agile
Tagged management, one-on-one, product owner, project management, project portfolio, transition to agile
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Agile Program Titles
I’ve been working with and discussing agile program management with a bunch of people. One of the big issues is: what do we call certain people at the program level? We need a program manager, someone who sets/explains the program’s … Continue reading
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Tagged agile architecture, product owner, program backlog, program management
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Multiple Product Owners for an Iteration
I’ve been working with clients making the transition to Agile. They are accustomed to a product manager “owning” a product, and negotiating for people to work on their product. Of course, that means begging, borrowing, stealing people from other projects … Continue reading
Who Should Be a Product Owner?
At a recent workshop, one of the participants asked me this question, “We want to start a new Scrum team. But we are confused about who to ask to be the product owner. We have a choice of someone who … Continue reading
Webinar Series for Orasi
If you’ve wanted to catch some of my presentations but were unable to make it to a conference or one of my speaking engagements, you have three opportunities this fall that don’t require you to leave your desk. I’ll … Continue reading
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Tagged product development, product owner, project management, project portfolio management
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