The thumbnail is 1000 words for a PM which contradicts the traditional scope-focused project with a value-driven model.
60% of companies that want Agile, have it, but most aren't doing it right, they convert PMs overnight with a few classes. Toyota has a culture and wrote books; Toyota learns more from the bad parts than the good ones. For one month following the start up of a new assembly line, engineers study the defects for root cause.
Among the failures of normal development are green shifting (pressure to ignore risks and only report good status), too much upfront documentation (misses the window of opportunity), and the waterfall (eventual product release that is late and not what was originally requested).
Allow faster development with a methodology that is artifact-light and process-light.
Other references and advice that Michael gave:
- recall "death by meeting" Five Dysfuncions of a Team
- PragmaticMarketing.com has excellent and free webinars
- be generally accurate, not precisely wrong
- prioritize value above all
- schedule developers @ 6 hours per day, not 8
- Dean Leffingwell blog
- Rally Agile development leader
- tell developers the problem, not a list of requirements
Presenting to the Denver chapter of PMI, Michael Swansegar, Agile Scrum master, is helping people understand the culture of agile
"You can sell anything once!" Michael Swansegar
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