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Archive of 2008 January
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Announcing the Scaling Software Agility One-Day Course!
Posted on January 31, 2008 by Dean Leffingwell in Enterprise RolloutI am happy to announce that I'll be presenting a one-day overview course based on the book: Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices for Large Enterprises, in London, England on February 27, 2008, and in Boulder, Colorado on March 19, 2008...
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A Three-Track Strategy for Enterprise Adoption
Posted on January 30, 2008 by Dean Leffingwell in Enterprise RolloutIn my blog entry of a few days ago, (Ideal Training for Enterprise Agility?), I noted that Pete Behrens (www.trailridgeconsulting.com) and I were collaborating on a leveraged enterprise rollout model, that is, a model for education and...
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Two New Enterprise Case Studies
Posted on January 29, 2008 by Dean Leffingwell in Case StudiesI'm always on the lookout for documented case studies of agility at enterprise scale which highlight impediments, lessons learned, anecdotal benefits, and wherever possible, hard metrics of improvement in productivity, quality or morale. I've (b)logged two such case studies, the...
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Ideal Training for Enterprise-Scale Agility?
Posted on January 24, 2008 by Dean Leffingwell in Enterprise RolloutPete Behrens (www.trailridgeconsulting.com) and I were formulating a training strategy for a significant enterprise that is contemplating an "all in" (immediate and across the entire company) enterprise scale transformation approach. Based on my experiences at BMC Software and his...
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How Enterprise Agile Adoption Can Fail
Posted on January 23, 2008 by Dean Leffingwell in Enterprise RolloutThe Top 5 Challenges that I Have Personally Seen I was in attendance at an enterprise agile rollout risk/mitigation session last week where the topic was brainstorming ways in which the rollout of enterprise agility could conceivably fail. The...
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Meeting Deadlines – “Tiger Teams” vs. Agile Project Management Practices
Posted on January 21, 2008 by Dean Leffingwell in Meeting Deadlines, Team PracticesOften times when introducing some of the basic agile project management practices to new teams (for example, the daily standup) some of the more experienced (ok, older) team members comment on the fact that these techniques look a lot...
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Patterns of Agile Adoption
Posted on January 17, 2008 by Dean Leffingwell in Enterprise RolloutIn this months newsletter from the Agile Journal, (www.agilejournal.com) Mike Cohn identifies six core patterns of adoption that have been applied in a number of companies over the last few years. The patterns are: Start Small or Go All In Technical...
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Responsibilities of Agile Product Owner vs Enterprise Product Manager
Posted on January 14, 2008 by Dean Leffingwell in Product Owner/Product ManagerBuilding on my own experiences as well as Jennifer Fawcett's whitepaper (agileproductowner.com) and the webinar from Catherine Connor and Rally, there are indeed some some substantial changes in the role of Product Manager in a before and after agile...
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More on Product Manager vs Product Owner, Webinar from Rally
Posted on January 4, 2008 by Dean Leffingwell in Product Owner/Product ManagerSpeaking of product managers and product owners, Catherine Connor from Rally Software (and a former compatriot of mine at Rational), recently presented a webinar entitled “How Product Management Must Change to Enable the Agile Enterprise”. Here’s the abstract: Continue reading this entry →