Posted on March 26th, 2009 by Dean Leffingwell
Recently, I’ve been working with a software enterprise helping them tune their agile process to better align the agile teams to the broader enterprise objectives. One particular subgroup has twelve agile teams, each of whom has a specific product mission in the marketplace. (Think “point products”). However, they must now also cooperate on building their [...]
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Posted on March 23rd, 2009 by Dean Leffingwell
In prior posts in this blog series and in the Agile Journal, I’ve described the critical role the team-based agile Product Owner plays in helping achieving enterprise agility. Indeed, the role, originally defined by Scrum, is now so comprehensive in agile methods that the role is hard to separate from the practice of agility itself. [...]
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Posted on March 19th, 2009 by Dean Leffingwell
Tuesday night, I was the guest speaker at a joint meeting of the Denver chapter of the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) and the newly formed Denver chapter of the Agile Project Leadership Network. We had a good crowd of 50-60 or so Business Analysis, Project Managers and the like. While most of the [...]
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Posted on March 11th, 2009 by Dean Leffingwell
Note: This is the fourth post in a series on the agile Product Owner and agile Product Manager‘s roles within the agile software enterprise. My primary collaborators on this series are Mauricio Zamora of CSG Systems, and Jennifer Fawcett of www.agileproductowner.com. In this post, I’ll describe some of the specific responsibilities of the enterprise Product [...]
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Posted on March 11th, 2009 by Dean Leffingwell
For those following this blog series, some of this content has been repurposed for a three part series in the Agile Journal. Part I- On Agile Product Managers and Product Owners: A Scalable, Nuanced Approach, was published last month. Part II – Responsibilities of the Agile Product Owner in the Agile Enterprise has just been [...]
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Posted on March 9th, 2009 by Dean Leffingwell
The Lean & Kanban Conference 2009 (http://www.leankanbanconference.com/) has just announced a more favorable and modular pricing structure for this unique, first year conference, to be held in Miami, May 6-8. Learn the latest thinking in applying Lean techniques like Kanban to shorten cycle time and deliver more value from your software projects. Mix with the [...]
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