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Posts about managing distributed and highly distributed development
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Feature vs. Component Teams: Another Perspective
Posted on August 20, 2009 by Dean Leffingwell in Distrib. Development, Feature Vs Component TeamsHiren 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...
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Organizing at Scale: Implementing Spanning Features
Posted on August 7, 2009 by Dean Leffingwell in Distrib. Development, Enterprise Rollout, Feature Vs Component TeamsPrompted 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. ...
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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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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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More on Distributed Teams – Ping Identity’s “Swarm” Model for Remote, Distributed Agile Development
Posted on December 8, 2007 by Dean Leffingwell in Distrib. DevelopmentI learned yet another new thing this week while attending a board meeting at Ping Identity, providers of software and services for Internet Single Sign On. Ping’s Development VP, Bill Wood, has been practicing and advancing agile development since...
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Is Distributed Agile Development as Hard as it Looks?
Posted on December 4, 2007 by Dean Leffingwell in Distrib. DevelopmentWithin the context of the larger enterprise, distributed development is the norm, not the exception. After all, if one has hundreds of developers and testers, the likelihood that they are all in co-located component teams, or that the enterprise could...
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