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Competency Lost

The Agile Manager

Product Owners were recruited from the ranks of the existing Business Analysts and Project Managers. Less senior BAs became Product Managers, while those Project Managers who did not become part of the Product organization were either staffed outside of IT or coached out of the accompany.

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AoAD2 Chapter 6: Invest in Change

James Shore

Help people understand how to do their job in the changed environment. Provide training, coaching, and other ways for people to get help without feeling judged. Large changes—those that directly impact more than 30-70 people—require professional change management. It can kill the change entirely.

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AoAD2 Chapter 3: How to Be Agile

James Shore

Investments needed for Focusing teams: Account for a 1-4 month productivity dip on each team. Ensure each team includes a coach who can teach Focusing practices. Ensure each team has access to stakeholders, or someone who represents stakeholders, for the purpose of determining product features and priorities.

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Two DevOps Metrics for Agile Teams & their Managers

Storm Consulting

They’ve had a dozen coaches working full-time, lots of community leadership, communities of practice, roadshows, conferences, a new top-down target operating model and bottom-up encouragement. Support staff are paid from a special ‘run the bank’ (RTB) budget, so it’s easy to figure their cost as a function of their time.

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Agile vs Waterfall: Key Differences And Definition?—?Which Model Is Better?

Codegiant

It combines some of the best agile practices and methods, including the methodologies from TDD, as well as agile change management, and database refactoring. Travis James Fell is the Product Manager at Hypori. The most important question the firm needs to answer is what are its goals, deadlines and budget.

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Managing to Solve An Elegant Puzzle with Will Larson

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

They went through a bunch of different styles of management, the different techniques like a formal kind of structure for coaching, like adaptive leadership and like a bunch of different kind of styles, and it was just like great. It was just really good. The word ‘sprint’ inherently seems like it’s anti-slack.