Agile and Lean Program Management: Scaling Collaboration Across the Organization
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| Rating | : | 4.94 (630 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1943487073 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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I write an email newsletter, the Pragmatic Manager, and two blogs on jrothman, and a personal blog on createadaptablelife with its own newsletter. I can help you create projects, teams, and organizations that work. I write articles for all kinds of places, including Better Software, IEEE Software, and Cutter IT Journal to name just three. Please take a look and sign up for the newsletters. . I help leaders and managers do reasonable things that work. About the Author People know me as the "Pragmatic Manager." I provide frank advice--often with a little humor--for your tough problems. I'm not sure I want to go to Antarctica. I suggest you think about your context first, because your circumstances are unique. I've keynoted on five continents
If you duplicate what one team does for several teams, you get bloat, not delivery. With autonomy, collaboration, and exploration, teams and program level people can decide how to apply agile and lean to their work. If you’re trying to use agile and lean at the program level, you’ve heard of several approaches, all about scaling processes. Create an environment of servant leadership and small-world networks. Scale collaboration with agile and lean program management and deliver your product.. Learn which measurements to use and how to use those measures to help people deliver more of what you want (value) and less of what you don’t want (work in progress). Scale collaboration, not process. Learn to enable autonomy, collaboration, and exploration across the organization and deliver your product. Learn to collaborate around deliverables, not meetings. Instead of scaling the process, scale everyone's collaboration
"Refine skills and adding to the toolbox" according to DT. I have over 6 years of Agile PM experience but only a couple years of Scaled Agile - so there's still a lot I can learn. The book does a great job at highlighting some techniques and tools, and provides examples that can be leveraged, for Agile efforts at the scaled or program level. Great for refining skills and adding to the toolbox.. Kim F said Great, practical advice. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. It offered great advice for not just the structure of the program team but best practices and trouble-shooting for each role in the team and offered alternate ways of working based on the needs and maturity of your organization.. The author’s range of experience in both legacy and Agile methods is a great help here as she offers explanations as to why mrsungo Whether you are coming from the Agile side of the house, or have a more traditional background, Johanna Rothman’s Agile and Lean Program Management is something you are going to want to have on hand if you are trying to manage work at the program and portfolio level within a work context that incorporates Agile and Lean practices.The book offers an explanation of how to go about setting up your program environment in a very clear and pragmatic way. The author’s range of experience in both legacy and Agile methods is a great help here
I help leaders and managers do reasonable things that work. I've keynoted on five continents. I write articles for all kinds of places, including Better Software, IEEE Software, and Cutter IT Journal to name just three. People know me as the "Pragmatic Manager." I provide frank advice--often with a little humor--for your tough problems. I write an email newsletter, the Pragmatic Manager, and two blogs o