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Tag Archives: program management
Economics, Models, and Money
Israel Gat had a great Agile Cutter Advisor recently, the Friction of Agile (registration required). He discussed the friction of agile going up in geographically distributed teams because of the dis-economies of assimilation (the space-time continuum problem, and the issue … Continue reading
New Pragmatic Manager Email Newlsetter About Programs Posted
I’ve been keeping up with my email newsletters this year—at least, better this year than previously. Yesterday, I posted “Organizing Programs.” I received several emails agreeing with that one. Apparently, I struck a nerve. If you think you are supposed … Continue reading
Reducing Your Own WIP and Yves’ Who Is Series
As a business owner, I have to remember to manage my own WIP, work in progress. Yves Hanoulle recently wrote about his own encounter with his wip limits, and what he decided to do it with respect to his “Who … Continue reading
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Tagged management, program management, project management, transparency
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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
Further Your Influence Skills: Vancouver & Potsdam
I’m a pragmatic realist. So, in my program management workshop and in my geographically distributed teams workshop, and in a number of my other talks and workshops this year (and next year), I’m talking about influence. Of course, I’m addressing … Continue reading
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Tagged authority, geographically distributed teams, integrity, negotiation, program management
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Speaking at Sept 19 Yahoo! Program Management Council
I’m giving at a talk at the Sept 19 Yahoo! Program Management Council, Managing for Collaboration. You might think this is a bit of an oxymoron: Managing for collaboration? But when you have programs, collections of projects where the business … Continue reading
Do You Need Titled Architects for Your Programs?
My StickyMinds.com column, Do You Need Titled Architects for Your Programs? is up. Please do comment over there.
Failed Fast at Agile 2011, Learned a Lot
I prepare for my speaking and workshop engagements. This year, I’ve been all over the world. I’ve had a great time, and my clients and audiences have had a great time, too. Well, except for this past week at my … Continue reading
How Agile Architects Lead
Lisa, Vin, and Derek in their comments on Agile, Architects, and Programs were concerned about how an architect might lead the test architecture work. They have good reason to be concerned. I hadn’t expressed how I see architecture working in … Continue reading
Agile, Architects, and Programs
When I was on vacation, I realized that lots of people already know that we need development architects on complex programs. And, lots of people forget that we also need test architects on complex programs. The more complex the product, … Continue reading
