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Archive of 2009 July
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Organizing at Scale: A Basic Scrum Framework for Enterprise Teams
Posted on July 31, 2009 by Dean Leffingwell in Enterprise Rollout, Feature Vs Component TeamsRecently, I was working with a smaller, but distributed, team that was trying to establish a basic framework for working together in a lightweight, Big Picture, enterprise pattern. We were rolling out a basic scrum practice for the individual...
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Organizing at Scale: Feature Teams vs. Component Teams – Part 3
Posted on July 22, 2009 by Dean Leffingwell in Agile Executive, Enterprise Rollout, Feature Vs Component TeamsAs the title indicates, in the last two posts (Part 1 and Part 2 - and also be sure and check the comments from others) I've described the conundrum of organizing agile teams at scale, and said I'd...
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Organizing at Scale: Feature Teams vs. Component Teams – Part 2
Posted on July 17, 2009 by Dean Leffingwell in Agile Executive, Distrib. Development, Enterprise Rollout, Feature Vs Component TeamsIn my last post, I reintroduced this topic, describing the conundrum of organizing large number of agile teams to better address value delivery for new end user features and services. I described two basic approaches, feature teams and component...
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Organizing at Scale: Feature Teams vs. Component Teams – Part 1
Posted on July 15, 2009 by Dean Leffingwell in Agile Executive, Distrib. Development, Enterprise Rollout, Feature Vs Component Teams, Team PracticesWhile continuing my work with a number of larger enterprises facing the cultural change, new practice adoption and organizational challenges of a large scale agile transformation, the topic has again come up as to how to organize large numbers of...
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Lean and Scalable Requirements Information Model Published at Modern Analyst
Posted on July 9, 2009 by Dean Leffingwell in Agile Requirements, Lean ThinkingThe latest version of the Lean and Scalable Requirements Information Model for the Agile Enterprise is now published in the July ejournal of the ModernAnalyst.com. For those of you interested in trends in requirements practices, this is a good...
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Ten Suggested Practices for Applying Agile/Lean Software Management Principles to Other Knowledge Work
Posted on July 1, 2009 by Dean Leffingwell in Agile Executive, Lean Thinking, UncategorizedIntroduction Recently, I’ve been asked to help some teams apply lean/agile/Scrum/XP-like project management practices to non-software development knowledge work. These organizations have seen agile methods produce huge benefits in visibility, productivity, quality, empowerment and motivation in their software teams. They naturally want...
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