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AoAD2 Practice: Whole Team

James Shore

Okay, you’re Agile now,” your manager says, before vanishing in a puff of golf-scented smoke. Claudine brings you up to speed about the product you’ll be working on. Your team is building the UI, and several other teams are building the back-end microservices. This excerpt is copyright 2007, 2020 by James Shore and Shane Warden.

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AoAD2 Chapter 4: Investing in Agility

James Shore

There’s a wide variety of help available: occasional mentoring; training; help with process design and implementation; and full-time (or near-full-time) coaching. The most effective help you can get is to hire experienced practitioners to coach each team full-time. The same goes when hiring consultants and coaches.

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AoAD2 Chapter 5: Invest in Agility

James Shore

There’s a wide variety of help available: occasional mentoring; training; help with process design and implementation; and full-time (or near-full-time) coaching. The most effective help you can get is to hire experienced practitioners to coach each team full-time. The same goes when hiring consultants and coaches.

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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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32 Best Jira Alternatives For Agile Project Management Teams In 2020 [Free & Paid]

Codegiant

Jira’s agile UI can also be a bit cumbersome. Experienced, especially DevOps, teams though, wouldn’t have problems navigating through Jira’s UI. Chris “Deuce” Alexander, Enterprise Agile Coach. “ Stéphane Turquay, Senior Product Manager at Smallpdf. “ Dusan, Co-founder of DealsOnHealth. “ Austin, CEO at Capiche.

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Agile vs Scrum: Differences & Similarities?—?The Complete Review [2020]

Codegiant

This helps the PM along with the dev team develop a product that suits the needs of the market to a tee. The exam material ranges roughly 8 different books / guides and leans a lot on the PMBOK (Product Management Body of Knowledge) textbook. Jay Hyett, Senior Delivery Coach at Envato. APMG International?—?a

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AoAD2 Practice: Team Room

James Shore

Whole Team, Coaches. 2002] found that sitting together doubled productivity and cut time to market to almost one-third of the company baseline. For people whose work takes them outside the team room frequently—product managers tend to fall into this category—make sure someone else on the team is available to act as their backup.