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Joseph Pelrine's Blend of Science, Process &Teamwork

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Agile
Topics
Change,
Teamwork,
Leadership

Joseph Pelrine was present when XP took its first steps, was Europe's first Certified Scrum Trainer, and today is still breaking new ground. In this 2007 InfoQ interview, Joseph talked about Network Analysis and how Social Complexity Science informs his work with teams; the usefulness of the Dilbert archetype; & a speed-dating technique to help teams get started (creating software, of course).

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Is Burnout Inevitable, while Facilitating Agile Projects?

Community
Agile
Topics
Leadership,
Teamwork

Facilitation on Agile projects seems to involve much more than the primary responsibility of improving the effectiveness of the work that the teams are doing. The responsibility of a facilitator can become so broad that over-facilitating becomes common, thus leading to burnout. An interesting Group Facilitation newslist discussion takes a closer look.

What is the Role of a Manager in an Agile Organization?

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Agile
Topics
Agile in the Enterprise,
Careers,
Leadership

Your organization is adopting Agile Development and your Managers are trying to find their new role. Prior to the adoption Agile perhaps management was involved in the production specifications and assigned the tasks. Now that teams are self organizing and the stories (instead of specs) come from the product owner, what does management do?

Agile Project Management ScrumWorks Pro 3.0 released

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Agile
Topics
Artifacts & Tools

Danube Technologies has just released the 3.0 Release of ScrumWorks Pro, last mentioned in August 07. ScrumWorks Pro is an Agile Project Management tool that help track team(s) progress through individual iterations and whole releases. In this release changes focused on two areas: usability improvements and the use of MySQL as the backend database.

Articles about Management

Help Your Teams Trade Cubicles for Communication Skills

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Agile
Topics
Collaboration,
Teamwork,
Leadership

The Agile “self organising team” paradigm demands new skills of team members – including the people skills for which they may once have depended upon their Project Managers. Far from being redundant, management can now play an important role in helping teams learn new ways to communicate and collaborate. This article proposes some strategies for imparting new skills and suggests some resources.

The "Consulting" Contract

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Agile
Topics
Collaboration,
Customers & Requirements,
Leadership

Coach Michael Spayd tells us that both contractors and permanent employees can play a "consultant" role, and should think about developing consulting contracts or "designed partnerships" with their clients - not about the exchange of money, but to help create stellar results for the client while working in a manner that adheres to their own values and preferences.

Interviews about Management

Panel: The Value of Agile Leadership to the Enterprise

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Agile
Topics
Leadership,
Stories & Case Studies,
Adopting Agile,
Agile in the Enterprise

InfoQ presents a one hour video from the APLN Leadership Summit at Agile2006, where a panel of business leaders spoke about their experiences: Bud Phillips (Capital One Financial), Israel Ganot (BMC Software), Steven Ambrose (DTE Energy), Peter George (Cronos Inc.). Topics included top-down vs. bottom-up adoption, making the leap of faith to enterprise adoption and the value of the PMO.

Presentations about Management

The Business Value of SOA

Community
SOA
Topics
Funding,
Business

In this presentation, recorded at QCon, Burton Group research director Anne Thomas Manes talks about how to make the business case for SOA. Her talk covers explaining SOA to non-technical business people, various approaches for selling SOA to management and gaining funding for SOA investments.

Context-Driven Agile Leadership: Managing Complexity and Uncertainty

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Agile
Topics
Customers & Requirements,
Methodologies,
Leadership

Of course, "anything more than 'barely sufficient' process is waste," but what does that mean for your team, or my next project? In this 60 minute presentation from the APLN Leadership Summit at Agile2006, Todd Little shared a model to help choose the right "flavour" of Agile for different kinds of projects, and discussed the importance of 'steering' throughout the project's duration.