Agile Adoption past the Team – An Experience Report
Published February 3rd, 2010 Under Project Management | Leave a Comment
This talk explores a 3 month coaching engagement where the customer needed to coordinate requirements and design across five highly dependent development teams. Mike will show how the teams went from zero to hyper-productivity in a matter of sprints by implementing solid engineering practices and deploying a Product Owner team to coordinate deliverables across the entire product delivery organization.
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Jeff Patton at AgilePalooza Boston – Product Owner
Published November 25th, 2009 Under Project Management | Leave a Comment
Jeff Patton debriefs his lunchtime open space session on the Product Owner at AgilePalooza Boston in October 2009. Learn more about AgilePalooza at http://www.AgilePalooza.com
Using Personas in an Agile Environment
Published August 27th, 2009 Under Project Management | Leave a Comment
Personas are no substitute for talking directly to customers, but what do you do when the customer isn’t there to talk to? Learn how to create a persona that helps you keep the customer in mind while developing your product. Tell user stories with confidence because the information is there to back the story up.
Facilitating a Product Council
Published August 26th, 2009 Under Project Management | Leave a Comment
These days, it seems like every software company has some agile or agile-ish teams. But how do you carry agile values beyond the team and into the business prioritization process? Over the last few years, I’ve worked with a group of stakeholders from VPs to support representatives to form a Product Council team that guides our development process. We ship software frequently (every week) and so this process is key for keeping a large number of stakeholders engaged in close contact with the delivery team. The Product Council consolidates feedback, develops the roadmap, and maintains stakeholder buy-in for a continuously evolving plan. In this workshop, i’ll introduce two different Product Council structures and the pros and cons of each. We’ll also talk about voting methods, managing ‘persistent’ stakeholders, using lightweight business cases to avoid waste, and whether your Product Council should be a democracy or an advisory team.
Who Does What in An Agile Project? Product Owners and Project Managers in Agile Teams
Published August 24th, 2009 Under Project Management | Leave a Comment
Using several case studies drawn from Enthiosys client consulting engagements, this talk will explore the relationship between Product Owners and Project Managers in IT-centric Agile project teams, and Product Managers, Product Marketing Managers, and Project Managers in Product-Centric Agile Teams. Luke will also cover when you need Portfolio Managers and how to structure their relationship with the rest of the team. Central to this talk will be a series of interactive exercises that will help you uncover who’s doing what in your Agile Project and provide you with tools to use retrospectives to assess and adjust your allocation of responsibilities among different members of your team.
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