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Agile Program Management: How Will You Deliver?
One of my program management clients is organizing a program and is having trouble thinking about a delivery model that fits their program. They are transitioning to agile and are accustomed to traditional releases. When I suggested they have someone … Continue reading
Thoughts on Infrastructure, Technical Debt, and Automated Test Framework
I’ve had several conversations in email and with clients recently that have all been about this question: “What do we do about our infrastructure?” Either the project or the program has to create/update/upgraded their architecture or automated test infrastructure, pay … Continue reading
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Tagged agile, architecture, geographically distributed teams, lean, program management, roadmap, technical debt
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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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Tagged agile, geographically distributed teams, kanban, lifecycle, project management, roadmap
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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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Why an Agile Project Manager is Not a Scrum Master
A reader asked why the lifecycle in Agile Lifecycles for Geographically Distributed Teams, Part 1 is not Scrum. It’s not Scrum for these reasons: The project manager and product owner start the release planning and ask the team if the … Continue reading
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Tagged agile, geographically distributed teams, project management, roadmap, transition to agile, transparency
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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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Tagged agile, geographically distributed teams, lifecycle, project management, roadmap
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