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Archive of 2008 February
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A Standard Iteration and Release Pattern for the Enterprise?
Posted on February 28, 2008 by Dean Leffingwell in Agile Release Train, Enterprise Rollout, Meeting Deadlines, Release PlanningI've discussed "around this topic" in the book and in various posts as well as the classroom environment, but it occurs to me that I've never directly proposed nor published a standard pattern for iterations and releases for the enterprise...
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Role of the Product Manager
Posted on February 28, 2008 by Dean Leffingwell in Product Owner/Product ManagerI've been blogging off and on the "agile product manager vs. agile product owner" roles over the last few months. (These are categorized under Product owner/Product Manager) In one post (Responsibilities of the Agile Product Owner vs. Enterprise Product...
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Release Planning Day 1 Schedule (AERP4)
Posted on February 24, 2008 by Dean Leffingwell in Agile Release Train, Meeting Deadlines, Release PlanningNote: this is one of a continuing series of posts, categorized under Release Planning. In earlier posts, I’ve described the critical role that release planning plays in enterprise agility. I’ve described the motivations and objectives (AERP1 and AERP2) and...
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Register for the London Course
Posted on February 20, 2008 by Dean Leffingwell in UncategorizedI'll be teaching the one-day course, Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices for Larger Enterprises, March 27, 2008 at the Southwark Mercure London City Bankside Hotel, 71-79 Southwark StreetLondon from 9:00-17:00. The hotel is a 10 minute walk from Waterloo or...
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Organizing and Planning the Release Planning Event (AERP3)
Posted on February 20, 2008 by Dean Leffingwell in Release PlanningNote: this post is part of a continuing series on Release Planning. The main posts in the series are organized and numbered sequentially (AERP1-n), and there are additional posts under the Release Planning category as well. Participants As we have described,
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Release Planning: the Agile Enterprise Main Event (AERP2)
Posted on February 18, 2008 by Dean Leffingwell in Agile Release Train, Distrib. Development, Release PlanningNote: This post is part of a continuing series where I've been discussing the critical role that release planning has in enterprise agility. These seminal release planning events are one of the key mechanisms the enterprise can apply to use its...
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Does Development Productivity go DOWN before it goes UP?
Posted on February 14, 2008 by Dean Leffingwell in Enterprise RolloutOne of the challenges I often have when talking to industry executives about a significant enterprise agile transformation is that they are usually pretty smart! After all, to have achieved their current position, they have probably been around for a...
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Yes, Enterprise Agility is Hard – But Release Planning Helps (AERP-1)
Posted on February 12, 2008 by Dean Leffingwell in Agile Release Train, Enterprise Rollout, Release PlanningNote: This is the first post (AERP-1) in a series on Agile Enterprise Release Planning which I hope to continue over the next few weeks. They'll be labeled AERP1-n, so you can eventually read them in sequence, front to...
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Yes, Enterprise Agility is Hard
Posted on February 11, 2008 by Dean Leffingwell in Release PlanningIn my continued work with some of the larger software enterprises, sometimes I am still surprised at just how difficult mastery of agile practices can be. (Of course this affects only those concerns with the courage to try!) And it's...
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You Might Need Better Release Planning if…..
Posted on February 8, 2008 by Dean Leffingwell in Agile Release Train, Release PlanningThe following bit I wrote was just published as the Tip of the Month in Agile University's newsletter for February. IF your agile team is just getting into the flow in a nascent agile enterprise, and if your teams...
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