Is the Agile Enterprise Product Manager the Agile Product Owner?

One of the primary lessons we have learned from the agile movement, is that in order to rethink the development process from an organizational perspective, it is sometimes easier to start with a blank slate than it it is to “edit down” or “refactor” the existing organization. Scrum does this implicitly with a basic postulate [...]

OpenUP/Eclipse EPF Team Comes to Boulder

A week or so back, members of the EPF (Eclipse Process Framework Project) met in Boulder. (learn more about this project at http://www.eclipse.org/epf/general/description.php). Member/attendees included Kurt Sand and Chris Sibbald (Telelogic), Per Kroll and Ricardo Balduino (IBM/Rational), Ana Paula Valente Pereira (Whatever Consulting), Nate Oster and Ken Clyne (Number Six) and Bjorn Gustafsson (GoodSoftware). Guests [...]

More on Distributed Teams – Ping Identity’s “Swarm” Model for Remote, Distributed Agile Development

I 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 2003, and he always impresses me with his innovations and advanced thinking with respect to [...]

Is Distributed Agile Development as Hard as it Looks?

Within 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 immediately relocate them to be so, is essentially zero. Moreover, scale alone drives distribution as [...]

Scaling Software Agility Now Available at Microsoft’s Redmond Campus Bookstoore.

Starting Saturday, December 1, the Microsoft Store on Microsoft’s Redmond campus will for the first time start carrying books from publishers other than Microsoft Press. Scaling Software Agility is one of the ones they have chosen to stock in this initial test phase. The tens of thousands of Microsoft employees who work in Redmond and [...]