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Product Owners: How to Get Your Development Team to Love You!!
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!Ron Lichty, principal, Ron Lichty Consulting author, Managing the Unmanageable!
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www.RonLichty.com www.ManagingTheUnmanageable.net !!!
Rules of Thumb / Nuggets of Wisdom* • Brooks’s Law: Adding manpower to a late
software project makes it later. – Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
* 300 in the book
Delight Your Customers
In the beginning, everyone will talk about scope, and budget, and schedule, but in the end, nobody really cares about any of those things.
The only thing they care about is this: People will love your software, or they won’t. ���
So that’s the only criterion to which you should truly manage. —Joseph Kleinschmidt, CTO
Support Agile Values
Methodology You Use
Methodology You Associate with Increase Profits
Agile Blended (Some Waterfall and Some Agile) Lean Waterfall
Agile 73.9% 13.0% 9.8% 0.0%
Blended (Some Waterfall and Some Agile) 31.8% 46.2% 10.6% 6.1%
Lean 14.3% 0.0% 42.9% 14.3%
Waterfall 15.8% 50.0% 18.4% 13.2%
Don't Know 5.3% 42.1% 26.3% 5.3%
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Let the Team Focus
ScrumTeam.jpg (from Exploring Scrum- the Fundamentals, by Dan Rawsthorne & Doug Shimp)
Have the Data
• “If you don’t have time to calculate value, we don’t have time to calculate cost.”��� --Jim Highsmith, agile coach and guru
Have the Data
• You need to know about this classic book:��� Software by Numbers ��� Mark Denne & Jane Cleland-Huang
Have the Data
• You need to know about this classic book:��� Software by Numbers ��� Mark Denne & Jane Cleland-Huang
– the source of • Minimum Marketable Features (MMFs) • Incremental Funding Methodology (IFM)
Incorporate Engineering’s Stories
• Webinar w Greg Cohen:���http://www.slideshare.net/RonLichty/prioritizing-the-product-backlog-aipmm-webinar
It’s the Values
• Support Agile Values The Agile Manifesto
– We value: • Individuals and interactions over processes and tools • Working software over comprehensive documentation • Customer collaboration over contract negotiation • Responding to change over following a plan
-- http://agilemanifesto.org/
It’s the Values
• Support Agile Values Value the Agile Manifesto over sets of practices
– We value: • Individuals and interactions over processes and tools • Working software over comprehensive documentation • Customer collaboration over contract negotiation • Responding to change over following a plan
-- http://agilemanifesto.org/
Ron Lichty Consulting • Interim & acting CTO/VP Eng roles / making development hum
– http://ronlichty.com, [email protected]
• The book: ���Managing the Unmanageable: ��� Rules, Tools & Insights for Managing Software People & Teams – http://ManagingTheUnmanageable.net
• The study: ���The Study of Product Team Performance – http://www.ronlichty.com/study.html
• Training: Agile for Teams The Agile Manager Managing Software People and Teams