Choose Your Own Program

AdventureWhere do I fit in as I move to a

program manager?

World is ChangingO What got you here won’t get you

there

O It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory. – W. Edwards Deming

Agile just a buzzword?O Management is management

O Still just delivering products

O What we’re doing works

Agile PrinciplesO Individuals and interactions over

processes and tools

O Working software over comprehensive documentation

O Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

O Responding to change over following a plan

AssumptionsO New hire for a smallish firmO Using a Scaled Agile Framework

implementationO 2 week

sprintsO 5 sprints

releases

new journey

Quickly review questions

Realm of control: 1 Team

Role Project Manager

http://goo.gl/M8nOyZ Round1

5 minutes

Deriving meaningful info

O Status O BudgetO IssuesO StructureO Task assignmentO CommunicationO backlog

Congratulations!PROMOTION to Program Manager

Success?O Did you survive your 2nd release as a

program manager?

O How do you think your team managed?

O How well did the team deliver?

journey continues

What would you do differently?

Realm of control: 3 teams

Role Program Manager

http://goo.gl/0G9Ykk Number2

5 minutes

What’s different?O Did you change?

O Why?

O Why Not?

O When would you?

Congratulations!

What do you do now?

Realm of control: 15 teams

Role Program Manager

http://goo.gl/Co7dBW 3rdRound

full tilt

5 minutes

How’d you do?O Did you survive this last release?

O What happened to your teams?

O How well did the teams deliver?

Wrap upO Themes

O Doing it for them vs. enabling

O Managing the team vs. team managing itself

O Silo of information vs. Oracle of information

O Frying pan & Fire vs. wide open ocean

Observations

Questions