Pages: 251
Published: March 2016
ISBN: pending
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Scaling process creates bloat. Dictating how to work to teams doesn’t work. What does? Servant leadership, autonomy, collaboration, and exploration. In this pragmatic and down-to-earth book, you’ll apply agile and lean principles to program management. If you’re a program manager, program product owner, or program architect, you’ll use servant leadership to enable the entire program’s success. If you’re part of a feature team, you’ll learn which measurements to provide to the program and what to expect of the program teams. You’ll use continuous planning, frequent deliverables, and agile and lean principles to deliver your product.
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Scale collaboration, not process.
If you’re trying to use agile and lean strategies at the program level, you’ve heard of several approaches, all about scaling processes. If you duplicate what one team does for several teams, you get bloat, not delivery. Instead of scaling the process, scale everyone’s collaboration.
With autonomy, collaboration, and exploration, teams and program-level people can decide how to apply agile and lean principles to their own work. The feature teams build momentum, using whatever forms of agile or lean work for them. The program teams use lean inside a cadence to make sure the entire product is done and ready to release. The entire program uses empirical data to see and understand status.
Collaborate around deliverables, not meetings. Learn which measurements to use and how to use those measures to help people deliver more of what you want (value) and less of what you don’t want (work in progress). Create an environment of servant leadership and small-world networks. Enable autonomy, collaboration, and exploration across the organization, and deliver your product.
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Johanna Rothman, the “Pragmatic Manager,” offers frank, practical advice that you can immediately apply to your product development challenges.
She helps leaders and teams uncover effective alternatives to their current product development practices. Since one size never fits all, she works with her clients to explore options for what and how to change. The results? Leaders and teams learn to collaborate and focus on outcomes that matter.
With her trademark practicality and humor, Johanna is the author of 21 books, hundreds of articles, and thousands of blog posts about many aspects of management and product development. Find her monthly newsletter and blogs at jrothman.com and createadaptablelife.com.
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Pages: 251
Published: March 2016
ISBN: pending
Edition: 1
In Print