Tuning Your Agile Team
Is your team working as well as it could be? Are you concerned about its practices or teamwork? If so, this is a clinic in which to bring your team. We'll experience a project and then “debug” the practices and and teamwork and see what might work better (or worse!). We will fail fast and succeed faster.
When teams transition to agile, they discover some pitfalls and traps along the way. They don’t always work by value. Their stories are too big. They may not have one product owner—they sometimes have none or three. The standups feel like micromanaging.
In this workshop, we’ll learn by doing. If you have your team with you, you’ll discover what your team does. If you come alone, you’ll discover the challenges of creating a team with new people and what that team does.
We’ll experience and then discuss how you can help your team become better, wherever it is. Learn some tips to make your agile teamwork succeed.
If you don’t have an entire team, come anyway, and you’ll learn something to bring back to your team.
About Johanna Rothman
Johanna Rothman, known as the “Pragmatic Manager,” offers frank advice for your tough problems. She helps leaders and teams learn to see simple and reasonable things that might work. Equipped with that knowledge, they can decide how to adapt their product development.
With her trademark practicality and humor, Johanna is the author of 18 books about many aspects of product development. She’s written these books:
- Project Lifecycles: How to Reduce Risks, Release Successful Products, and Increase Agility
- Become a Successful Independent Consultant
- Free Your Inner Nonfiction Writer
- Modern Management Made Easy series: Practical Ways to Manage Yourself; Practical Ways to Lead and Serve (Manage) Others; Practical Ways to Lead an Innovative Organization
- Write a Conference Proposal the Conference Wants and Accepts
- From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams (with Mark Kilby)
- Create Your Successful Agile Project: Collaborate, Measure, Estimate, Deliver
- Agile and Lean Program Management: Scaling Collaboration Across the Organization
- Manage Your Project Portfolio: Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects, 2nd edition
- Project Portfolio Tips: Twelve Ideas for Focusing on the Work You Need to Start & Finish
- Diving for Hidden Treasures: Finding the Value in Your Project Portfolio (with Jutta Eckstein)
- Predicting the Unpredictable: Pragmatic Approaches to Estimating Project Schedule or Cost
- Manage Your Job Search
- Hiring Geeks That Fit
- The 2008 Jolt Productivity award-winning Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management
- Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management (with Esther Derby)
In addition to articles and columns on various sites, Johanna writes the Managing Product Development blog on her website, jrothman.com, as well as a personal blog on createadaptablelife.com.
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