A Contemporary Framework for Agile Product Management in the Enterprise

The following article was posted on InformIT yesterday: A Contemporary Framework for Agile Product Management in the Enterprise. Pieces of it have been spread around this blog before, but this is a fairly standalone piece describing my view of the changing role of the product manager in the agile enteprise.

Presentation from Agile 2009

Below is my updated presentation from Agile 2009 yesterday. Thanks to those who attended. Scaling Software Agility Overview Agile 2009_updated

Feature vs. Component Teams: Another Perspective

Hiren Doshi is doing a good job of describing various considerations around the feature vs. component teams discussion and on the practical  application of the three tier Big Picture model for larger and distributed enterprises, at his blog at www.practiceagile.com. His ongoing, experience-based perspective is lucid and practical so I’ve added his blog to the blogroll. [...]

New Whitepaper: The Big Picture Of Enterprise Agility

Readers of this blog are likely aware that effectively implementing software agility at the enterprise level is no small feat. Even for the fully committed department or enterprise, it can take six months to a year to introduce and master many of the basic agile practices and a number of additional years to achieve the productivity [...]

Organizing at Scale: Implementing Spanning Features

Prompted by the discussion of feature and component teams, a reader recently sent in the following question: “I have a user story, that on its face, appears to have been structured in such a way that it simply cannot be independent.  That is, the story itself cuts across teams, and even across product lines.  If [...]

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