Agile Release Train: A Whitepaper

Recently, I’ve been working with a  software enterprise helping them tune their agile process to better align the agile teams to the broader enterprise objectives. One particular subgroup has twelve agile teams, each of whom has a specific product mission in the marketplace. (Think “point products”). However, they must now also cooperate on building their [...]

Agile Product Owner and Agile Product Manager in the Enterprise 5: Seeding the Product Owner Role

In prior posts in this blog series and in the Agile Journal, I’ve described the critical role the team-based agile Product Owner plays in helping achieving enterprise agility. Indeed, the role, originally defined by Scrum, is now so comprehensive in agile methods that the role is hard to separate from the practice of agility itself. [...]

Agile Portfolio Management Briefing

Tuesday night, I was the guest speaker at a joint meeting of the Denver chapter of the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) and the newly formed Denver chapter of the Agile Project Leadership Network. We had a good crowd of 50-60 or so Business Analysis, Project Managers and the like. While most of the [...]

Agile Product Owner and Agile Product Manager in the Enterprise 4: Responsibilities of the Product Owner in the Enterprise

Note: This is the fourth post in a series on the agile Product Owner and agile Product Manager’s roles within the agile software enterprise. My primary collaborators on this series are Mauricio Zamora of CSG Systems, and Jennifer Fawcett of www.agileproductowner.com. In this post, I’ll describe some of the specific responsibilities of the enterprise Product [...]

Agile Journal Part II – Responsibilities of the Agile Product Owner in the Enterprise

For those following this blog series, some of this content has been repurposed for a three part series in the Agile Journal. Part I- On Agile Product Managers and Product Owners: A Scalable, Nuanced Approach, was published last month. Part II – Responsibilities of the Agile Product Owner in the Agile Enterprise has just been [...]

New Pricing for Lean & Kanban Conference 2009

The Lean & Kanban Conference 2009 (http://www.leankanbanconference.com/) has just announced a more favorable and modular pricing structure for this unique, first year conference, to be held in Miami, May 6-8.

Learn the latest thinking in applying Lean techniques like Kanban to shorten cycle time and deliver more value from your software projects. Mix with the experts [...]