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Self Assessment Tool for Transitioning to Agile
Over on agileconnection, a user asked about a self-assessment tool for measuring agile maturity. That’s not exactly the right question, because agile transition is a journey, not a destination. But, I can understand why he asked the question. I tried … Continue reading
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
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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Agile Project Management Tutorial, AgileIndy Conf, March 7, 2013
Are you interested in how to manage agile projects? Thinking of transitioning to agile? Available on March 7, 2013? I am leading an experiential one-day tutorial in conjunction with AgileIndy to introduce the ideas of agile project management to people … Continue reading
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Tagged agile, conference, lean, transition to agile, tutorial
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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
Transition to Agile, Large Technical Debt, Small Project
Many months ago, Rebecca asked an interesting question about technical debt in projects. She asked, How to start when there’s a really big mess? In that case, small, just being a professional clean-up acts may not even make a dent. … Continue reading
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Tagged backlog, project management, risk, technical debt, transition to agile
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For Programs, Short is Beautiful
In my talk, How Much Will this Project Cost? at Agile 2012 last week, I got to say, “Short is beautiful.” For those of you who have never seen me, I’m five feet tall. The question was something like this: … Continue reading
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Tagged agile, iteration, project management, transition to agile
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Hours, Velocity, Silo’d Teams, & Gantts
I’ve been having some email conversations with some project and program managers turned Scrum Masters. In general here’s how things have proceeded: Their organizations decided agile was a great idea Their organizations decided Scrum was a great idea to implement … Continue reading
Public Workshop, Transitioning to Agile, in Stockholm, May 28-29
I’m offering a public workshop about Transitioning to Agile in Stockholm, May 28-29, 2012, in English. Developers’ lives change when you transition to agile. Product owners’ lives change. Managers lives’ change. The organization’s culture changes. And, when a project and … Continue reading
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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