Gantthead Column About Agile Project Management Posted
My column at Gantthead, The Agile Project Manager: To Facilitate, Serve and Protect is posted. Enjoy!
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Strategic vs. Tactical Management Work
A twitter follower asked if I could provide a link to a “discussion of tactical vs strategic planning/projects?” Here you go: Strategic work is a management role. It involves setting the direction for the organization (or group), deciding what to do and what not to do, who to hire and when. If it involves committing
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Wage Cost and Project Labor Cost
I’ve been working with teams who want to move to agile. Some people on their teams are in another location, where the salaries are cheaper. It’s difficult to get agile started with a geographically distributed team. If everyone’s distributed, it’s easier than if just some people–especially if they are all one function, such as developers
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Why Do Iterations Have to be the Same Duration in Agile?
Rothman Consulting Group, Inc. Vol 7, #2: Why Do Iterations Have to be the Same Duration in Agile? February 5, 2010 In This Issue: Why Do Iterations Have to be the Same Duration in Agile? Join the Teleseminar Series: Prevent Your Agile Titanic Group Coaching for Managers and Project Managers New to the Pragmatic Manager?
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Avoid Death Marches
Rothman Consulting Group, Inc. Vol 7, #1: Avoid Death Marches January 25, 2010 In This Issue: Avoid Death Marches Join the Teleseminar Series: Prevent Your Agile Titanic Group Coaching for Managers and Project Managers Avoid Death Marches Death marches, the end of the project when people work too much overtime, try to finish
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Transitioning to Agile Testing
Summary: Your developers are already working feature-by-feature in iterations, but your testers are stuck with manual tests. How do you make the leap to agile testing when the nature of agile’s iterative releases challenges testers to test working segments of a product instead of the complete package? In this week’s column, Johanna Rothman explains that
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The Silent Project Killer
Agile projects, especially if you are starting your agile transition, can have plenty of problems. Some are technical debt problems, such as the build taking too long or having insufficient automated tests to know if your changes are helping or hurting the system. But there’s another insidious management problem when many teams transition to agile:
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Are You Making Progress or Spinning Your Wheels?
Summary: While managing a long project, it’s easy to lose track of progress. And, when that happens, how do you even know whether you’re still making progress? In this article, Johanna Rothman offers suggestions to help you take your project one step at a time and keep it under control. When I coach managers or
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Measure Throughput, Not Utilization
Summary: Keeping your team busy with work all of the time may seem good for productivity and a good use of your work force. But it comes with serious backlash in the form of delayed work, incomplete iterations, technical debt, and the negative consequences of multitask context switching. In this column, Johanna Rothman explains how
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The Agile Project Manager: To Facilitate, Serve and Protect
Some agile teams build and maintain their project’s rhythm, happily developing the system. Sure, they may encounter issues–but they can manage those problems and they successfully release the product. No one works overtime, the product owner is happy and the users are happy with the system. Then there are the other teams. I meet many