Agile and Lean Program Management

Collaborating Across the Organization

Scaling agile or lean projects to a program is difficult. Dictating to a program doesn’t work. What does? Autonomy, collaboration and exploration. Learn how to become an agile and lean program manager or become a valued member of a program team and collaborate across the organization.

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About the Book

Are you a program manager trying to coordinate many projects across your organization? Are you part of a software team, waiting for the software, hardware, or marketing to be ready? Or, are you are part of the core team, in HR, Marketing, DevOps, or some other group in the organization wondering, “When will this product be done?”

Learn to select the most pragmatic agile and lean approaches for your program. Increase your product’s business value, reduce your risks, and release faster. Establish a rhythm for your program, reduce work in progress, and see where you are missing key players. Provide autonomy for feature teams, a collaborative and exploratory environment across the organization to realize business value. Everyone on your program will be able to answer the question, “When will this program be done?”

About the Author

Johanna Rothman @johannarothman

Johanna Rothman, known as the "Pragmatic Manager" helps organizational leaders see problems and risks in their product development. She helps them recognize potential "gotchas," seize opportunities, and remove impediments.

Johanna has been managing projects and programs since the Neanderthal era. She is the current agileconnection.com technical editor. She is the author of these books:

Manage Your Job Search
Hiring Geeks That Fit
Manage Your Project Portfolio: Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects
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)
Corrective Action for the Software Industry (with Denise Robitaille)

She is also writing Agile and Lean Program Management: Collaborating Across the Organization, a book about agile program management.

Johanna writes the Pragmatic Manager, a monthly email newsletter, and writes two blogs on her web site, www.jrothman.com, as well as a blog on www.createadaptablelife.com. She is a columnist about management for Techwell.com, and is a columnist about agile project management for projectmanagement.com.

About the Publisher

This book is published on Leanpub by Practical Ink .

Johanna Rothman's books on leanpub. Practical, frank, and often humorous tips you can put to work right now.

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