Management Myth About Experts Posted
I have another management myth column posted over at Techwell: Management Myth #2: Only ‘The Expert’ Can Perform This Work. What do you think? Please comment over there.
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Pragmatic Managers Posted for Your Reading Pleasure
I have posted 2012’s Pragmatic Manager emails. I have been writing in themes this year: I am writing about geographically distributed teams in preparation for my Geographically Distributed Teams Workshop with Shane in April: Building Trust in Any Team Start Your Geographically Distributed Projects Right Earlier this year, I wrote about the project portfolio for
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Webinar Recording Available, Last Day for Early Registration for Workshop
Shane and I recorded a webinar at noon today, about our Geographically Distributed Agile Teams workshop. We had a great time, and answered a lot of questions. We had a few recording glitches, so if you hear me talking over Shane, oops. To me, it sounded as if he was not talking. There is a
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Who Is Agile? A book on LeanPub
Yves Hanoulle has edited a book, called Who Is agile? Full disclosure: I am in the book. I love this book. Not because I am in it, but because of all the back-stories, the pictures, and the links. And, oh my goodness, the links. I did not expect to love this book. I expected to
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Agile Project Portfolio Management Video Posted
The very nice folks from Øredev 2011 have posted my video about agile project portfolio management. You might not think that Malmo, Sweden in November would be a hot time, but for me it was! I met great people and had a wonderful time.
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Webinar for Geographically Distributed Agile Teams on Feb 15, Noon Eastern
Please join Shane Hastie and me for a webinar about our Geographically Distributed Teams workshop on Feb 15, at noon Eastern. Want to make your geographically distributed agile projects more effective? Join Johanna Rothman and Shane Hastie for this webinar where they will discuss their workshop, Working Effectively In Geographically Distributed Agile Project Teams. We’ll
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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 and risk management. With people all over the world, it’s difficult to coordinate the project,
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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, because the project manager was shared among several projects. The developers knew about timeboxed iterations,
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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 release planning is ok. The team does not generate the initial draft of release planning
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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, but the team could never get to done. The problem was that the stories were