Ict educators win-win-win w agile, ron lichty, 1.4.13
•Download as PPT, PDF•
2 likes•7,491 views
"Delivering a Win-Win-Win Workforce with Agile Programming Methods", presentation to the 2013 Winter ICT Educator conference in San Francisco January 4, 2013.
Report
Share
Report
Share
Recommended
Transforming Chaos To Clarity, Ron Lichty
Presentation to PMI - Wine Country Chapter- 4/8/2010: Transforming Chaos to Clarity: Making Your Software Development Hum
Crash course- managing software people and teams
"We'd like you to manage the team now." That's about as much introduction - and training - as many of us get before our first day managing. Often preceded only by, "You're a great programmer,” and maybe, “it feels like you've got some people skills.”
But while programming cred and facility with people are helpful qualifications, what do you really need to know to manage well? What makes a manager great? What are the qualities that meld teams and deliver great software? What will make both your programmers and your execs rave? Those are among the questions that led Ron Lichty and his co-author Mickey W. Mantle to write "Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams" (Addison-Wesley).
In this interactive session, Ron will examine the great managers each of us has experienced, and the qualities, skills, finesse and gifts of greatness that made them stand out. He'll talk about "the rest of the job": managing up, managing out, and other aspects of being a seasoned manager that reports mostly don't see.
You'll take away a few best practices that take most managers years to discover.
Bio:
Ron Lichty has been managing and, more recently, consulting in software development and product organizations for over 25 years at companies like Apple, Fujitsu, Schwab, Razorfish, Forensic Logic, Stanford, Check Point, and dozens of startups of all sizes. Before that, as a programmer, he coded compiler code generators, was awarded patents for compression and security algorithms for embedded microcontroller devices, wrote two widely used programming texts, and developed the computer animation demo that Apple used to launch and sell a next-generation line of PCs. He has mostly managed development teams and organizations, but also product managers, project managers, testers, designers, … pretty much everyone on product teams. The primary focus of his consulting practice, these last four years, has mirrored what he did as a manager: untangling the knots in software development. His career has spanned web applications, system software, entertainment, shrinkwrap products, ecommerce, interface development, embedded devices, professional services and IT - and grew from first level managing to VP Engineering, VP Product and CTO roles.
As Ron Lichty Consulting, he takes on fractional Interim VP Engineering and Acting CTO roles, trains teams in scrum, transitions teams to agile, trains managers in managing software people and teams, and coaches teams to make their software development “hum.” http://www.ronlichty.com
His 450-page book, Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams (http://www.ManagingTheUnmanageable.net), published by Addison Wesley, has been compared by many readers to programming classics The Mythical Man-Month and Peopleware. He also co-authors the biannual Study of Product Team Performance (http://www.ronlichty.com/study.html).
What's It Take to Be a (Good!) Manager
Managing programmers is hard! Becoming a successful manager requires a drastic change of focus.
The transition from programmer to manager is made particularly challenging by the dramatic difference between what made us successful as programmers and what it takes to successfully manage others. In addition, programmers are an interesting management challenge. We tend to be free spirits, playful, curious, and (very) independent.
What’s management really about? What differentiates success as a manager? What's it mean to manage in the era of agile? How do you prioritize? What constitutes great management?
Presenter is Ron Lichty, who co-authored the Addison-Wesley tutorial and reference, Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams - http://www.ManagingTheUnmanageable.net. Compared by reviewers to software development classics, The Mythical Man-Month and Peopleware, the content is now also available as video training, LiveLessons: Managing Software People and Teams, http://www.ManagingTheUnmanageable.net/video.html. Ron aspires to make software development better worldwide by advancing the practice of software development management.
Ron has been alternating between consulting with and managing software development and product organizations for 25 years, almost all of those spent untangling the knots in software development and transforming chaos to clarity, the last 20 of those in the era of Agile. Originally a programmer, he earned several patents and wrote two popular programming books before being hired into his first management role by Apple Computer, which nurtured his managerial growth in both development and product management roles.
Principal and owner of Ron Lichty Consulting, Inc. (www.RonLichty.com), Ron advises business, product and engineering leaders to solve development team challenges, taking on an occasional interim vice president of engineering role, and training teams and executives in making agile more effective. He transitions teams from waterfall and iterative methodologies to agile, coaches teams already using agile to make their software development "hum", and trains managers in managing software people and teams. In his continued search for effective best practices, Ron co-authors the Study of Product Team Performance (http://www.ronlichty.com/study.html).
Product Owners - How to get your development team to love you (ProductTankSV,...
Product managers and product owners can engage and motivate their teams to delight customers - or they can distract and dishearten their teams.
Ron Lichty has been a product manager, a CTO, and a VP leading both development organizations and product teams. As a development leader, he regards product managers who "get it" as key partners.
Here are 16 ways to engage and motivate product teams - to ensure that together that you delight customers!
Points to take away:
▪ Delighting customers is the metric to which we should manage
▪ Delighting customers relies on tight collaboration between product managers, product owners, and development teams
▪ Product managers and development leaders are uniquely positioned to, together, motivate product teams
▪ Product managers and product owners are uniquely positioned to connect the dots
BIo:
Ron Lichty has, for 30-plus years, championed delighting customers. He believes that strong product/engineering collaboration is essential to achieving that goal. Ron co-authored the Addison-Wesley book Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams (http://www.ManagingTheUnmanageable.net) and annually coauthors the Study of Product Team Performance (http://www.ronlichty.com/study.html).
Ron spent seven years as a programmer, two years as a product manager, and 25 years managing product and development organizations at all levels - to VP of engineering, VP of product and CTO - at companies ranging in size from tiny startups to Charles Schwab, Stanford and Apple.
He now consults across that realm, taking on fractional interim VP Engineering and acting CTO roles, training teams in agile, training managers in managing software people and teams, and coaching development teams and executives in making software development hum. (http://www.ronlichty.com)
Ron has long been a popular speaker at product, development and agile meetups and conferences.
Crash Course - Managing Software People and Teams
"We'd like you to manage the team now." That's about as much introduction - and training - as many of us get before our first day managing. Often preceded only by, "You're a great programmer,” and maybe, “it feels like you've got some people skills.”
But while programming cred and facility with people are helpful qualifications, what do you really need to know to manage and lead well? What makes a manager great? What are the qualities that meld teams and deliver great software? What will make both your programmers and your execs rave? Those are among the questions that led Ron Lichty and his co-author Mickey W. Mantle to write "Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams" (Addison-Wesley).
In this interactive session, Ron will examine the great managers each of us has experienced, and the qualities, skills, finesse and gifts of greatness that made them stand out. He'll talk about "the rest of the job": managing up, managing out, and other aspects of being a seasoned manager that reports mostly don't see.
You'll take away a few best practices of leading and managing that take most managers years to discover.
BIO: Ron Lichty
Ron Lichty has been managing and, more recently, consulting in software development and product organizations for over 30 years at companies like Apple, Fujitsu, Schwab, Razorfish, Forensic Logic, Stanford, Check Point, and dozens of startups of all sizes. Before that, as a programmer, he coded compiler code generators, was awarded patents for compression and security algorithms he designed and coded for embedded microcontroller devices, wrote two widely used programming texts, and developed the computer animation demo that Apple used to launch and sell a next-generation line of PCs.
Ron has mostly led development teams and organizations, but also product managers, project managers, testers, designers, ... pretty much everyone on product teams. The primary focus of his consulting practice, these last eight years, has mirrored what he did as a manager: untangling the knots in software development. His career grew from first level manager to VP Engineering, VP Product and CTO roles.
As Ron Lichty Consulting, he takes on fractional Interim VP Engineering roles, trains teams in scrum, transitions teams to agile, trains managers in managing software people and teams, and coaches teams to make their software development “hum.” http://www.ronlichty.com
Addison Wesley recently released the 2nd edition of his fifth book, Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams (http://www.ManagingTheUnmanageable.net), compared by many readers to programming classics The Mythical Man-Month and Peopleware. He also co-authors the periodic Study of Product Team Performance (http://www.ronlichty.com/study.html).
Critical Agile Practices, Nuanced Techniques
Five techniques that can make our teamwork and our teams dramatically more effective. Nonetheless, they're nuances I almost never see teams doing (and that have made my own teams much more effective).
I'm an engineering-team and engineering-organization fire-jumper. This is stuff that works for me.
I've not only seen these techniques work with my teams, but... I'm also the co-author of the Study of Product Team Performance, in which correlations from the thousands of respondents on product teams all over the world have validated the universality of the nuances of two of these techniques.
I've been teaching and coaching managers and teams in all five for 15 years. It's time they get wider visibility, and a wider swath of teams and managers get a shot at leveraging them.
Presenter Ron Lichty has, for 30-plus years, championed delighting customers. He believes that strong product/engineering collaboration is essential to achieving that goal. Ron co-authored the Addison-Wesley book Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams (http://www.ManagingTheUnmanageable.net) and annually coauthors the Study of Product Team Performance (http://www.ronlichty.com/study.html).
Ron spent seven years as a programmer, two years as a product manager, and 25 years managing product and development organizations at all levels - at companies ranging in size from tiny startups to Charles Schwab, Stanford and Apple - to VP of engineering, VP of product and CTO.
He now consults across that realm, taking on interim VP Engineering roles, advising executive leaders how to untangle the knots in their product development organizations, training teams in agile, training managers in managing software people and teams, and coaching development teams and executives in making software development hum. (http://www.ronlichty.com)
Ron has long been a popular speaker at product, development and agile meetups and conferences. Ron@RonLichty.com
The hidden ingredient in hyper productive teams (scrummasters guild, 10.15)
Ron LIchty, author of "Managing the Unmanageable", will explore how shared leadership is often the unspoken ingredient in hyper-productive teams. He will lead participants in activities designed to give a direct experience of sharing leadership and explain how that leads to hyper-productive teams and organizations.
Join us at Cisco in San Jose for an experience that could make everyone around you smarter and wiser.
Definitions of Done and High Performance Teams
What’s the most powerful practice in Agile? My candidate: a team-crafted, team-owned definition of done.
Our research findings: product teams are most effective when they have a definition of done defined by the team itself collaboratively.
Might the practice of crafting a definition of done – before writing a single line of code – be the most powerful practice in Agile? Or does having a definition of done matter? What is the correlation between Definitions of Done and high performance teams?
Thousands of people on product teams all over the world respond to our survey for the Study of Product Team Performance. We asked them.
Here's what the data shows.
Presented November 2018 to the Silicon Valley Engineering Leadership Community, and January 2017 to the Silicon Valley Agile Trends & Leadership.
Speaker:
Ron Lichty
In addition to training teams in agile, Ron Lichty has spent years coaching managers about how their roles change with agile. While his recent Addison Wesley book, Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams (http://www.ManagingTheUnmanageable.net) didn’t zero in on agile, both the book and the classes that he and his coauthor give current and prospective managers espouse a deeply agile mindset for managers. He also coauthors the annual Study of Product Team Performance (http://www.ronlichty.com/study.html).
The primary focus of his consulting practice, these last five years, has mirrored what he did as a manager: untangling the knots in software development. His career has spanned web applications, system software, entertainment, shrinkwrap products, ecommerce, interface development, embedded devices, professional services and IT - and grew from first level managing to VP Engineering, VP Product and CTO roles.
As Ron Lichty Consulting, he takes on fractional Interim VP Engineering roles, trains teams in scrum, transitions teams to agile, trains managers in managing software people and teams, and advises organizations to make their software development “hum.” http://www.ronlichty.com
Managing the Unmanageable was recently released as video training - LiveLessons: Managing Software People and Teams - both from Pearson and on O’Reilly’s Safari Network (http://www.ManagingTheUnmanageable.net/video.html).
Recommended
Transforming Chaos To Clarity, Ron Lichty
Presentation to PMI - Wine Country Chapter- 4/8/2010: Transforming Chaos to Clarity: Making Your Software Development Hum
Crash course- managing software people and teams
"We'd like you to manage the team now." That's about as much introduction - and training - as many of us get before our first day managing. Often preceded only by, "You're a great programmer,” and maybe, “it feels like you've got some people skills.”
But while programming cred and facility with people are helpful qualifications, what do you really need to know to manage well? What makes a manager great? What are the qualities that meld teams and deliver great software? What will make both your programmers and your execs rave? Those are among the questions that led Ron Lichty and his co-author Mickey W. Mantle to write "Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams" (Addison-Wesley).
In this interactive session, Ron will examine the great managers each of us has experienced, and the qualities, skills, finesse and gifts of greatness that made them stand out. He'll talk about "the rest of the job": managing up, managing out, and other aspects of being a seasoned manager that reports mostly don't see.
You'll take away a few best practices that take most managers years to discover.
Bio:
Ron Lichty has been managing and, more recently, consulting in software development and product organizations for over 25 years at companies like Apple, Fujitsu, Schwab, Razorfish, Forensic Logic, Stanford, Check Point, and dozens of startups of all sizes. Before that, as a programmer, he coded compiler code generators, was awarded patents for compression and security algorithms for embedded microcontroller devices, wrote two widely used programming texts, and developed the computer animation demo that Apple used to launch and sell a next-generation line of PCs. He has mostly managed development teams and organizations, but also product managers, project managers, testers, designers, … pretty much everyone on product teams. The primary focus of his consulting practice, these last four years, has mirrored what he did as a manager: untangling the knots in software development. His career has spanned web applications, system software, entertainment, shrinkwrap products, ecommerce, interface development, embedded devices, professional services and IT - and grew from first level managing to VP Engineering, VP Product and CTO roles.
As Ron Lichty Consulting, he takes on fractional Interim VP Engineering and Acting CTO roles, trains teams in scrum, transitions teams to agile, trains managers in managing software people and teams, and coaches teams to make their software development “hum.” http://www.ronlichty.com
His 450-page book, Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams (http://www.ManagingTheUnmanageable.net), published by Addison Wesley, has been compared by many readers to programming classics The Mythical Man-Month and Peopleware. He also co-authors the biannual Study of Product Team Performance (http://www.ronlichty.com/study.html).
What's It Take to Be a (Good!) Manager
Managing programmers is hard! Becoming a successful manager requires a drastic change of focus.
The transition from programmer to manager is made particularly challenging by the dramatic difference between what made us successful as programmers and what it takes to successfully manage others. In addition, programmers are an interesting management challenge. We tend to be free spirits, playful, curious, and (very) independent.
What’s management really about? What differentiates success as a manager? What's it mean to manage in the era of agile? How do you prioritize? What constitutes great management?
Presenter is Ron Lichty, who co-authored the Addison-Wesley tutorial and reference, Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams - http://www.ManagingTheUnmanageable.net. Compared by reviewers to software development classics, The Mythical Man-Month and Peopleware, the content is now also available as video training, LiveLessons: Managing Software People and Teams, http://www.ManagingTheUnmanageable.net/video.html. Ron aspires to make software development better worldwide by advancing the practice of software development management.
Ron has been alternating between consulting with and managing software development and product organizations for 25 years, almost all of those spent untangling the knots in software development and transforming chaos to clarity, the last 20 of those in the era of Agile. Originally a programmer, he earned several patents and wrote two popular programming books before being hired into his first management role by Apple Computer, which nurtured his managerial growth in both development and product management roles.
Principal and owner of Ron Lichty Consulting, Inc. (www.RonLichty.com), Ron advises business, product and engineering leaders to solve development team challenges, taking on an occasional interim vice president of engineering role, and training teams and executives in making agile more effective. He transitions teams from waterfall and iterative methodologies to agile, coaches teams already using agile to make their software development "hum", and trains managers in managing software people and teams. In his continued search for effective best practices, Ron co-authors the Study of Product Team Performance (http://www.ronlichty.com/study.html).
Product Owners - How to get your development team to love you (ProductTankSV,...
Product managers and product owners can engage and motivate their teams to delight customers - or they can distract and dishearten their teams.
Ron Lichty has been a product manager, a CTO, and a VP leading both development organizations and product teams. As a development leader, he regards product managers who "get it" as key partners.
Here are 16 ways to engage and motivate product teams - to ensure that together that you delight customers!
Points to take away:
▪ Delighting customers is the metric to which we should manage
▪ Delighting customers relies on tight collaboration between product managers, product owners, and development teams
▪ Product managers and development leaders are uniquely positioned to, together, motivate product teams
▪ Product managers and product owners are uniquely positioned to connect the dots
BIo:
Ron Lichty has, for 30-plus years, championed delighting customers. He believes that strong product/engineering collaboration is essential to achieving that goal. Ron co-authored the Addison-Wesley book Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams (http://www.ManagingTheUnmanageable.net) and annually coauthors the Study of Product Team Performance (http://www.ronlichty.com/study.html).
Ron spent seven years as a programmer, two years as a product manager, and 25 years managing product and development organizations at all levels - to VP of engineering, VP of product and CTO - at companies ranging in size from tiny startups to Charles Schwab, Stanford and Apple.
He now consults across that realm, taking on fractional interim VP Engineering and acting CTO roles, training teams in agile, training managers in managing software people and teams, and coaching development teams and executives in making software development hum. (http://www.ronlichty.com)
Ron has long been a popular speaker at product, development and agile meetups and conferences.
Crash Course - Managing Software People and Teams
"We'd like you to manage the team now." That's about as much introduction - and training - as many of us get before our first day managing. Often preceded only by, "You're a great programmer,” and maybe, “it feels like you've got some people skills.”
But while programming cred and facility with people are helpful qualifications, what do you really need to know to manage and lead well? What makes a manager great? What are the qualities that meld teams and deliver great software? What will make both your programmers and your execs rave? Those are among the questions that led Ron Lichty and his co-author Mickey W. Mantle to write "Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams" (Addison-Wesley).
In this interactive session, Ron will examine the great managers each of us has experienced, and the qualities, skills, finesse and gifts of greatness that made them stand out. He'll talk about "the rest of the job": managing up, managing out, and other aspects of being a seasoned manager that reports mostly don't see.
You'll take away a few best practices of leading and managing that take most managers years to discover.
BIO: Ron Lichty
Ron Lichty has been managing and, more recently, consulting in software development and product organizations for over 30 years at companies like Apple, Fujitsu, Schwab, Razorfish, Forensic Logic, Stanford, Check Point, and dozens of startups of all sizes. Before that, as a programmer, he coded compiler code generators, was awarded patents for compression and security algorithms he designed and coded for embedded microcontroller devices, wrote two widely used programming texts, and developed the computer animation demo that Apple used to launch and sell a next-generation line of PCs.
Ron has mostly led development teams and organizations, but also product managers, project managers, testers, designers, ... pretty much everyone on product teams. The primary focus of his consulting practice, these last eight years, has mirrored what he did as a manager: untangling the knots in software development. His career grew from first level manager to VP Engineering, VP Product and CTO roles.
As Ron Lichty Consulting, he takes on fractional Interim VP Engineering roles, trains teams in scrum, transitions teams to agile, trains managers in managing software people and teams, and coaches teams to make their software development “hum.” http://www.ronlichty.com
Addison Wesley recently released the 2nd edition of his fifth book, Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams (http://www.ManagingTheUnmanageable.net), compared by many readers to programming classics The Mythical Man-Month and Peopleware. He also co-authors the periodic Study of Product Team Performance (http://www.ronlichty.com/study.html).
Critical Agile Practices, Nuanced Techniques
Five techniques that can make our teamwork and our teams dramatically more effective. Nonetheless, they're nuances I almost never see teams doing (and that have made my own teams much more effective).
I'm an engineering-team and engineering-organization fire-jumper. This is stuff that works for me.
I've not only seen these techniques work with my teams, but... I'm also the co-author of the Study of Product Team Performance, in which correlations from the thousands of respondents on product teams all over the world have validated the universality of the nuances of two of these techniques.
I've been teaching and coaching managers and teams in all five for 15 years. It's time they get wider visibility, and a wider swath of teams and managers get a shot at leveraging them.
Presenter Ron Lichty has, for 30-plus years, championed delighting customers. He believes that strong product/engineering collaboration is essential to achieving that goal. Ron co-authored the Addison-Wesley book Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams (http://www.ManagingTheUnmanageable.net) and annually coauthors the Study of Product Team Performance (http://www.ronlichty.com/study.html).
Ron spent seven years as a programmer, two years as a product manager, and 25 years managing product and development organizations at all levels - at companies ranging in size from tiny startups to Charles Schwab, Stanford and Apple - to VP of engineering, VP of product and CTO.
He now consults across that realm, taking on interim VP Engineering roles, advising executive leaders how to untangle the knots in their product development organizations, training teams in agile, training managers in managing software people and teams, and coaching development teams and executives in making software development hum. (http://www.ronlichty.com)
Ron has long been a popular speaker at product, development and agile meetups and conferences. Ron@RonLichty.com
The hidden ingredient in hyper productive teams (scrummasters guild, 10.15)
Ron LIchty, author of "Managing the Unmanageable", will explore how shared leadership is often the unspoken ingredient in hyper-productive teams. He will lead participants in activities designed to give a direct experience of sharing leadership and explain how that leads to hyper-productive teams and organizations.
Join us at Cisco in San Jose for an experience that could make everyone around you smarter and wiser.
Definitions of Done and High Performance Teams
What’s the most powerful practice in Agile? My candidate: a team-crafted, team-owned definition of done.
Our research findings: product teams are most effective when they have a definition of done defined by the team itself collaboratively.
Might the practice of crafting a definition of done – before writing a single line of code – be the most powerful practice in Agile? Or does having a definition of done matter? What is the correlation between Definitions of Done and high performance teams?
Thousands of people on product teams all over the world respond to our survey for the Study of Product Team Performance. We asked them.
Here's what the data shows.
Presented November 2018 to the Silicon Valley Engineering Leadership Community, and January 2017 to the Silicon Valley Agile Trends & Leadership.
Speaker:
Ron Lichty
In addition to training teams in agile, Ron Lichty has spent years coaching managers about how their roles change with agile. While his recent Addison Wesley book, Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams (http://www.ManagingTheUnmanageable.net) didn’t zero in on agile, both the book and the classes that he and his coauthor give current and prospective managers espouse a deeply agile mindset for managers. He also coauthors the annual Study of Product Team Performance (http://www.ronlichty.com/study.html).
The primary focus of his consulting practice, these last five years, has mirrored what he did as a manager: untangling the knots in software development. His career has spanned web applications, system software, entertainment, shrinkwrap products, ecommerce, interface development, embedded devices, professional services and IT - and grew from first level managing to VP Engineering, VP Product and CTO roles.
As Ron Lichty Consulting, he takes on fractional Interim VP Engineering roles, trains teams in scrum, transitions teams to agile, trains managers in managing software people and teams, and advises organizations to make their software development “hum.” http://www.ronlichty.com
Managing the Unmanageable was recently released as video training - LiveLessons: Managing Software People and Teams - both from Pearson and on O’Reilly’s Safari Network (http://www.ManagingTheUnmanageable.net/video.html).
Leading and Motivating Engineers - what product managers need to know - prod...
Effective, experienced technical product management is crucial to make software development hum: Engineering and Product Management are symbiotic. Product managers lead and motivate by first establishing credibility with engineers, and by bringing vision, data, collaboration, prioritization, and protection. Ron Lichty has repeatedly been brought in to transform chaos to clarity in software development. Here’s what product managers can apply to lead and motivate engineers and make software development hum.
BIo:
Ron Lichty has, for 30-plus years, championed delighting customers. He believes that strong product/engineering collaboration is essential to achieving that goal. Ron co-authored the Addison-Wesley book Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams (http://www.ManagingTheUnmanageable.net) and annually coauthors the Study of Product Team Performance (http://www.ronlichty.com/study.html).
Ron spent seven years as a programmer, two years as a product manager, and 25 years managing product and development organizations at all levels - to VP of engineering, VP of product and CTO - at companies ranging in size from tiny startups to Charles Schwab,Stanford, and Apple.
He now consults across that realm, taking on fractional interim VP Engineering and acting CTO roles, training teams in agile, training managers in managing software people and teams, and coaching development teams and executives in making software development hum. (http://www.ronlichty.com)
Ron has long been a popular speaker at product, development and agile meetups and conferences. Ron@RonLichty.com
Crash Course - managing software people and teams (sfelc, 10.26.16)
"We'd like you to manage the team now." That's about as much introduction - and training - as many of us get before our first day managing. Often preceded only by, "You're a great programmer,” and maybe, “it feels like you've got some people skills.”
But while programming cred and facility with people are helpful qualifications, what do you really need to know to manage well? What makes a manager great? What are the qualities that meld teams and deliver great software? What will make both your programmers and your execs rave? Those are among the questions that led Ron Lichty and his co-author Mickey W. Mantle to write "Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams" (Addison-Wesley).
In this interactive session, Ron will examine the great managers each of us has experienced, and the qualities, skills, finesse and gifts of greatness that made them stand out. He'll talk about "the rest of the job": managing up, managing out, and other aspects of being a seasoned manager that reports mostly don't see.
You'll take away a few best practices that take most managers years to discover.
Product owners - how to get your development team to love you (product school...
Product managers and product owners can engage and motivate their teams to delight customers - or they can distract and dishearten their teams.
Ron Lichty has been a product manager, a CTO, and a VP leading both development organizations and product teams. As a development leader, he regards product managers who "get it" as key partners.
Here are 16 ways to engage and motivate product teams - to ensure that together that you delight customers!
BIo:
Ron Lichty has, for 30-plus years, championed delighting customers. He believes that strong product/engineering collaboration is essential to achieving that goal. Ron co-authored the Addison-Wesley book Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams (http://www.ManagingTheUnmanageable.net) and annually coauthors the Study of Product Team Performance (http://www.ronlichty.com/study.html).
Ron spent seven years as a programmer, two years as a product manager, and 25 years managing product and development organizations at all levels - to VP of engineering, VP of product and CTO - at companies ranging in size from tiny startups to Charles Schwab,Stanford, and Apple.
He now consults across that realm, taking on fractional interim VP Engineering and acting CTO roles, training teams in agile, training managers in managing software people and teams, and coaching development teams and executives in making software development hum. (http://www.ronlichty.com)
Ron has long been a popular speaker at product, development and agile meetups and conferences. Ron@RonLichty.com
Transforming chaos to clarity - acm 6.15
Does your software development feel chaotic?
If you have ever been dissatisfied with your software development flow - if you would like to figure out how to avoid chaos - this is a presentation for you!
Ron Lichty has found himself repeatedly called in as the cavalry to help development groups stuck in confusion. A recognized engineering leader, Ron says, “I've found that I excel at coming in cold, identifying the causes of chaos, untangling organizational knots, creating roadmaps everyone can follow, building communications with other parts of the organization, and getting teams productive and focused on delivery, quality and customers.” He adds, “With a few pointers, any team member can more deeply diagnose their team.”
Ron is author of Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams, which has been compared by reviewers to Fred Brooks’ The Mythical Man Month. After managing software and product organizations for 25 years, Ron has catered his leadership roles to the needs of his clients, including interim VP Engineering and acting CTO roles.
Six years ago, Ron began training teams in agile and a year ago training managers in the nuances of managing software people and teams, whether in waterfall environments, or iterative or agile ones.
If you would like to become an effective agile team member then you'll want to attend this presentation. We’ll look at agile trends, software team pain points, product team solutions, and how every team member contributes to making teams excel.
Drawing from his experience with dozens of product development organizations, Ron will walk through the steps needed to assess your organization’s workings and pull together the elements that will bring order and increased productivity for your business.
Bio:
Ron Lichty has been managing and more recently consulting with software development and product organizations for over 25 years, engaged in untangling the knots in software development and transforming chaos to clarity. Originally a programmer, where he earned several patents and wrote two popular programming books, he was hired into his first management role by Apple Computer, which nurtured his managerial growth in both development and product management.
Principal and owner of Ron Lichty Consulting, Inc. (www.RonLichty.com), he has trained teams in scrum, transitioned teams from waterfall and iterative methodologies to agile, and coached teams using agile, iterative and waterfall approaches alike to make their software development "hum". In his continued search for effective best practices, Ron co-authors the annual Study of Product Team Performance.
Ron's most recent book is Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams - http://www.ManagingTheUnmanageable.net - co-authored with CTO Mickey W. Mantle. Published by Addison Wesley, it has been compared by reviewers to Mythica
Product owners - how to get your development team to love you (product tank, ...
Product managers and product owners can engage and motivate their teams to delight customers - or they can distract and dishearten their teams.
Ron Lichty has been a product manager, a CTO, and a VP leading both development organizations and product teams. As a development leader, he regards product managers who "get it" as key partners.
Here are 16 ways to engage and motivate product teams - and together delight customers!
BIo:
Ron Lichty has, for 30-plus years, championed delighting customers. He believes that strong product/engineering collaboration is essential to achieving that goal. Ron co-authored the Addison-Wesley book Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams (http://www.ManagingTheUnmanageable.net) and annually coauthors the Study of Product Team Performance (http://www.ronlichty.com/study.html).
Ron spent seven years as a programmer, two years as a product manager, and 25 years managing product and development organizations at all levels - to VP of engineering, VP of product and CTO - at companies ranging in size from tiny startups to Charles Schwab, Stanford and Apple. He now consults across that realm, taking on fractional interim VP Engineering and acting CTO roles; training teams in agile; training managers in managing software people and teams; and coaching development teams and executives in making software development hum. (http://www.ronlichty.com)
Ron has long been a popular speaker at product, development and agile meetups and conferences.
Teamwork - making your dream team come true
Agile Iowa 10.16, Silicon Valley Agile Trends & Leadership 4.17
What differentiates a successful software development culture?
Almost all of us have been on a high performance team. Just invite us, and we’ll sign up for another in a second! Typically, it was a team for which we worked harder - but from which we took away more exhilaration and joy than at any other time in our careers. What made it so? And what can we do to get it again?
We think successful software development cultures are ones that are not just performant but that both delight customers and are a joy for every team member to be part of.
One of the characteristics that differentiates agile cultures is that (finally!), it’s not just managers who are responsible for crafting culture - but everyone. And agile, done well, means every one of us engages in the crafting of it.
But agile asks people who are often introverted, highly-logical, independent thinkers not only to form teams but to make those teams self-organizing. It asks every team member to step up and collaborate.
Agile offers each of us the promise of a stellar team experience – provided we and every one of our peers steps up to make it so. We need to no longer just perform as individuals, but truly trust and respect and engage and share - behaviors that can feel at odds with the fierce independence that got us through school and into industry.
Speaker
Ron Lichty
In addition to training teams in agile, Ron Lichty has spent years coaching managers about how their roles change with agile. While his recent Addison Wesley book, Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams (http://www.ManagingTheUnmanageable.net) didn’t zero in on agile, both the book and the classes that he and his coauthor give current and prospective managers espouse a deeply agile mindset for managers. He also coauthors the annual Study of Product Team Performance (http://www.ronlichty.com/study.html).
Scaling Agile Teams
Ask any scrum coach about ideal team size and you’ll likely get the same answer: 7 plus or minus 2: that is, 5 to 9 team members doing the actual planning and work of the sprint.
But is that true?
And if it is, what do we do when we think we need to add a 10th team member to an already-maxed-out, 9-member team?
Splitting into two (or three!) teams seems fractious - siloing - so why would we cap teams at nine and split them at 10?
And what do we do when part of our team is local and part remote? Or when our entire team is scattered? How do we organize for best results?
Ron Lichty’s mantra is that software development is a team sport, which means that what gates productivity is communication. In this webinar, he’ll speak to organizing teams for effectiveness, productivity and joy.
Ron Lichty consults with software and product teams and organizations to make software development “hum”. Ron’s book, Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams (http://www.ManagingTheUnmanageable.net), published by Addison Wesley, has been compared by many readers to programming classics The Mythical Man-Month and Peopleware. His Live Lessons: Managing Software People and Teams video training for managers is available via O’Reilly’s Safari Bookshelf. Ron also co-authors the periodic Study of Product Team Performance (http://www.ronlichty.com/study.html).
Principal and owner of Ron Lichty Consulting, Inc. (www.RonLichty.com), he has trained teams in Scrum, transitioned teams from waterfall to agile, coached teams already using agile to make their software development "hum", and trained managers in managing software people and teams. He takes on interim VP Engineering roles and to other clients provides VPE-level guidance and advice to untangle the knots in software development and transform chaos to clarity.
He has led teams and organizations at companies like Apple Computer, Fujitsu, Charles Schwab, Avenue A / Razorfish, Forensic Logic, Stanford, Check Point, and dozens of startups of all sizes. He co-chairs the Silicon Valley Engineering Leadership Community.
AIPMM talk - chaos to clarity: managing the unmanageable, ron lichty, 12.7.12
Good software management:
⁃ How to recognize it when you see it
⁃ How to encourage it
⁃ How to encourage senior management to encourage it
⁃ How to collaborate with it effectively
What does good software development management look like?
How do good programming managers motivate their teams?
What are programming managers bedeviled by?
How are programming managers tormented by product managers?
What are the forces that cause discord between product and software development managers?
What can be done about feature creep and late changing requirements?
Why do so many parts of organizations expect feature requirements to change but not delivery schedules?
What are objectives shared between programming managers and product managers that could encourage collaboration?
What would happen if programming managers and product managers formed mutual admiration societies with each other?
Engineering challenges, product management solutions - product camp 2016
Effective, experienced technical product management is crucial to make software engineering hum: Engineering and Product Management are symbiotic. When engineering is chaotic, many times applying a product management “fix” can do the trick. Ron Lichty has repeatedly been brought in to transform chaos to clarity in software development. Here’s a set of diagnoses, each with a product management fix that product managers can apply to make engineering hum.
If we are agile, why do we need managers (code camp, 10.14)
A common misconception about agile is that managers are unnecessary. After all, agile is based on self-organizing teams. If the teams organize themselves, what do managers do?
Unfortunately, most scrum training plays into that. Think about it: how many trainers or coaches have you seen sketch the structure of a scrum team with a drawing that includes a manager? While there's always a scrum master and a product owner, the core team and maybe some stakeholders, have you ever seen a manager in that drawing?
This misconception can be a problem all around: A frequently cited barrier to agile adoption is managers who don't know what to do when their teams become self-managing. When they're not included in training, how would they (or anyone else, for that matter) know how to characterize their role. At the same time, organizations often lay down expectations of managers, some compatible with agile, some not.
Agile has clearly shifted the old roles and responsibilities. Managers bent on command-and-control are clearly a barrier to agile adoption. But managers who take a hands-off approach or are treading water in a sea of ambiguity will almost certainly stymie adoption, as well.
Ron Lichty believes (and so do a lot of the early agile thought leaders) that managers have critical roles to play in enabling success, both of transitions to agile and of agile itself. This session is about those roles.
Becoming an Agile Manager (bay scrum, 10.24.13)
A common misconception about agile is that managers are unnecessary. After all, agile is based on self-organizing teams. If the teams organize themselves, what do managers do?
Unfortunately, most scrum training plays into that. Think about it: how many trainers or coaches have you seen sketch the structure of a scrum team with a drawing that includes a manager? While there's always a scrum master and a product owner, the core team and maybe some stakeholders, have you ever seen a manager in that drawing?
This misconception can be a problem all around: A frequently cited barrier to agile adoption is managers who don't know what to do when their teams become self-managing. When they're not included in training, how would they (or anyone else, for that matter) know how to characterize their role. At the same time, organizations often lay down expectations of managers, some compatible with agile, some not.
Agile has clearly shifted the old roles and responsibilities. Managers bent on command-and-control are clearly a barrier to agile adoption. But managers who take a hands-off approach or are treading water in a sea of ambiguity will almost certainly stymie adoption, as well.
Ron Lichty believes (and so do a lot of leading agile thought leaders) that managers have critical roles to play in enabling success, both of transitions to agile and of agile itself. This session is about those roles.
12 Take Aways - Managing the Unmanageable
Twelve Take Aways: Managing the Unmanageable. We'll look at 12 best practices that make programming managers great but take most managers years to discover. Expect an interactive session.
About 95 percent of programming managers had no management training before being tapped to manage. Ron Lichty and his co-author Mickey W. Mantle, both former programmers, didn't either.
About half of managers never get any training in managing. Ron and Mickey were lucky enough to work for companies like Apple and Pixar that provided some general management training. But little to none of it was specific to managing programmers, or to managing programming teams.
The struggle to manage programmers and programming teams motivated years of weekend breakfasts for Ron and Mickey, during which they traded insights - on the challenges they faced - and solutions they had used and seen - the kinds of stuff they’d wished they'd had when they started managing.
Sharing insights and best practices with each other for a decade led them to realize they wanted to share what they had learned. And that led to spending eight years of free time writing their Addison Wesley book, Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams, http://www.ManagingTheUnmanageable.net. To their own hard-won experience, they added the best of the treasure troves they'd each collected of rules of thumb and nuggets of wisdom from their peers and programming manager thought leaders around the world.
Reviewers have repeatedly compared Managing the Unmanageable to The Mythical Man-Month and Peopleware, the classics on software development challenges.
About Ron:
Ron Lichty has been managing and, more recently, consulting in managing software development and product organizations for over 25 years at companies like Apple Computer, Fujitsu, Charles Schwab, Avenue A | Razorfish, Forensic Logic, Stanford, Check Point, MediaBrands, and dozens of startups of all sizes. Before that, as a programmer, he coded compiler code generators, was awarded patents for compression and security algorithms he designed and coded for embedded microcontroller devices, wrote two widely used programming texts, and developed the computer animation demo that Apple used to launch and sell a next-generation line of PCs. He has mostly managed development teams and organizations, but also product managers, project managers, testers, designers, … pretty much everyone on product teams.
The primary focus of his consulting practice, these last 5 years, has mirrored what he did as a manager: untangling the knots in software development. His career grew to VP Eng, VP Product and CTO roles.
As Ron Lichty Consulting, he takes on fractional Interim VPE roles, trains teams in scrum, transitions teams to agile, trains managers in managing software people and teams, and advises organizations and coaches teams to make their software development “hum.” http://www.ronlichty
Crash Course: Managing Software People and Teams (IEEE, 4.4.13)
"We'd like you to manage the team now." That's about as much introduction - and training - as many of us get before our first day managing. Often preceded only by, "You're a great programmer and you've got some people skills." But while programming cred and facility with people are helpful qualifications, what do you really need to know to manage well? What makes a manager great? What are the qualities that meld teams and deliver great software? Those are among the questions that led Ron Lichty and his co-author Mickey W. Mantle to write "Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams" (Addison-Wesley, September), now available for pre-order online. In this interactive session, we'll examine the great managers each of us has experienced, and the qualities, skills, finesse and gifts of greatness that made them stand out. We'll talk about "the rest of the job": managing up, managing out, and other aspects of being a seasoned manager that reports mostly don't see. And you'll take away a few best practices that take most managers years to discover.
Dream teams - making your dream (team) come true
What differentiates a successful software development culture? What differentiates high performance teams?
Almost all of us have been on a high performance team. Typically, it was a team for which we worked harder - but from which we took away more exhilaration and joy - than any other team in our careers.
What made it so? And what can we do to get it again?
Successful software development cultures are ones that are not just performant but that also delight customers and are a joy for every team member to be part of.
One of the characteristics that differentiates agile cultures is that (finally!) it’s not just managers who are responsible for crafting culture - but everyone. Yes, every one of the various kinds of managers engaged with product and project teams have a role in crafting culture and supporting the emergence of high performance teams. But agile, done well, means every one of us engages in crafting it.
Ultimately, stellar team experiences derive from us. We need to truly trust and respect and engage and share - behaviors that can feel at odds with the fierce independence from whence we’ve come.
How can people who are often introverted, highly-logical, independent thinkers not only form teams but make those teams self-organizing and high-performance? What’s the role of leaders in crafting culture that supports emergence of high performance teams? What can we all do to be part of a high performance team once again? How do we make our dream teams come true?
Takeaways / Lessons to be learned:
▪ What constitutes and characterizes a dream team?
▪ What’s the connection between agile teams and dream teams?
▪ What differentiates great agile teams from mediocre ones?
▪ What’s the role of managers, product managers, product owners, program managers and scrum masters in fostering dream teams?
▪ What’s the role of team members in fostering dream teams?
▪ Take away what you can do to transform your team to a dream team.
Talk delivered to Agile Iowa, Silicon Valley Code Camp, San Mateo Scrum Professionals, Silicon Valley Agile Camp, Eastern Iowa Agile, and Silicon Valley Agile Trends & Leadership
Speaker:
Ron Lichty
In addition to training teams in scrum, taking on interim VP Engineering roles, and advising organizations and coaching teams to make their software development "hum", Ron Lichty mentors managers about how their roles change with agile. While his recent Addison Wesley book, Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams (http://www.ManagingTheUnmanageable.net) didn’t zero in on agile, both the book and the classes that he and his coauthor give current and prospective managers espouse a deeply agile mindset for managers. He also coauthors the Study of Product Team Performance (http://www.ronlichty.com/study.html). His book was recently released as video training, http://www.ManagingTheUnmanageable.net/video.html
Keys to crafting an effective agile culture (svcc, 10.15)
What differentiates a successful software development culture?
Among successful cultures, what makes an agile one stand out?
We think successful software development cultures are ones that are not just performant but that both delight customers and are a joy for every team member to be part of.
One of the characteristics that differentiates agile cultures is that (finally!), it’s not just managers who are responsible for crafting culture - but everyone. And agile, done well, means every one of us engages in the crafting of it.
In addition to training teams in agile, Ron Lichty has spent years coaching managers about how their roles change with agile. While his recent Addison Wesley book, Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams, didn’t zero in on agile, both the book and the classes that he and his coauthor give current and prospective managers espouse a deeply agile mindset for managers.
If We Are Agile, Why Do We Need Managers? (AgileIndy, 5.14)
A common misconception about agile is that managers are unnecessary. After all, agile is based on self-organizing teams. If the teams organize themselves, what do managers do?
Unfortunately, most scrum training plays into that. Think about it: how many trainers or coaches have you seen sketch the structure of a scrum team with a drawing that includes a manager? While there's always a scrum master and a product owner, the core team and maybe some stakeholders, have you ever seen a manager in that drawing?
This misconception can be a problem all around: A frequently cited barrier to agile adoption is managers who don't know what to do when their teams become self-managing. When they're not included in training, how would they (or anyone else, for that matter) know how to characterize their role. At the same time, organizations often lay down expectations of managers, some compatible with agile, some not.
Agile has clearly shifted the old roles and responsibilities. Managers bent on command-and-control are clearly a barrier to agile adoption. But managers who take a hands-off approach or are treading water in a sea of ambiguity will almost certainly stymie adoption, as well.
Ron Lichty believes (and so do a lot of the early agile thought leaders) that managers have critical roles to play in enabling success, both of transitions to agile and of agile itself. This session is about those roles.
Agile Is Hard (AgileCampSV 2014)
Almost no one on software teams believes in waterfall any longer. That's what we learned from the surveys we took in the course of authoring The 2013 Study of Product Team Performance.
But that doesn't make agile a magic pill.
Mike Cohn notes, "Becoming agile is hard. It is harder than most other organizational change efforts I've witnessed or been part of [for reasons] including the need to change from the top-down and bottom-up simultaneously, the impossibility of knowing exactly what the end state will look like, the dramatic and pervasive changes caused by Scrum, the difficulty adding more change on top of all that is already occurring, and the need to avoid turning Scrum into a list of best practices."
How do we get beyond that?
Glossing over the reality that agile is hard leads us to ignore the very things we need to address to succeed.
On the other hand, acknowledging that agile is hard lets us focus on the challenges that have been preventing us from becoming high performance teams.
This session combines a presentation, a panel and some shared thinking to move beyond how simple agile seems - to what in fact makes agile transformations hard - to how we can face down those challenges to achieve agile's promise.
Expected Takeaways (outcome) for Audience *
For those just starting agile transformations: a heads-up that implementing practices only goes so far.
For those well into agile but struggling, a sense they're not alone.
For all of us, a window into how to get to where we want to go.
12 take aways - managing the unmanageable
Silicon Valley Code Camp presentation, October 2013, drawing 12 of the top actionable take-aways for managing programmers and programming teams, from the book, Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams, by Mickey W. Mantle and Ron Lichty.
Prioritizing The Product Backlog AIPMM Webinar
AIPMM Webinar 5/14/2010 by Greg Cohen & Ron Lichty: Real World Strategies for Prioritizing the Product Backlog
Managing Using Intuition and Rules of Thumb 050113
Presentation to the IEEE Technology Management Council, Santa Clara Valley /San Francisco Chapter
More Related Content
What's hot
Leading and Motivating Engineers - what product managers need to know - prod...
Effective, experienced technical product management is crucial to make software development hum: Engineering and Product Management are symbiotic. Product managers lead and motivate by first establishing credibility with engineers, and by bringing vision, data, collaboration, prioritization, and protection. Ron Lichty has repeatedly been brought in to transform chaos to clarity in software development. Here’s what product managers can apply to lead and motivate engineers and make software development hum.
BIo:
Ron Lichty has, for 30-plus years, championed delighting customers. He believes that strong product/engineering collaboration is essential to achieving that goal. Ron co-authored the Addison-Wesley book Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams (http://www.ManagingTheUnmanageable.net) and annually coauthors the Study of Product Team Performance (http://www.ronlichty.com/study.html).
Ron spent seven years as a programmer, two years as a product manager, and 25 years managing product and development organizations at all levels - to VP of engineering, VP of product and CTO - at companies ranging in size from tiny startups to Charles Schwab,Stanford, and Apple.
He now consults across that realm, taking on fractional interim VP Engineering and acting CTO roles, training teams in agile, training managers in managing software people and teams, and coaching development teams and executives in making software development hum. (http://www.ronlichty.com)
Ron has long been a popular speaker at product, development and agile meetups and conferences. Ron@RonLichty.com
Crash Course - managing software people and teams (sfelc, 10.26.16)
"We'd like you to manage the team now." That's about as much introduction - and training - as many of us get before our first day managing. Often preceded only by, "You're a great programmer,” and maybe, “it feels like you've got some people skills.”
But while programming cred and facility with people are helpful qualifications, what do you really need to know to manage well? What makes a manager great? What are the qualities that meld teams and deliver great software? What will make both your programmers and your execs rave? Those are among the questions that led Ron Lichty and his co-author Mickey W. Mantle to write "Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams" (Addison-Wesley).
In this interactive session, Ron will examine the great managers each of us has experienced, and the qualities, skills, finesse and gifts of greatness that made them stand out. He'll talk about "the rest of the job": managing up, managing out, and other aspects of being a seasoned manager that reports mostly don't see.
You'll take away a few best practices that take most managers years to discover.
Product owners - how to get your development team to love you (product school...
Product managers and product owners can engage and motivate their teams to delight customers - or they can distract and dishearten their teams.
Ron Lichty has been a product manager, a CTO, and a VP leading both development organizations and product teams. As a development leader, he regards product managers who "get it" as key partners.
Here are 16 ways to engage and motivate product teams - to ensure that together that you delight customers!
BIo:
Ron Lichty has, for 30-plus years, championed delighting customers. He believes that strong product/engineering collaboration is essential to achieving that goal. Ron co-authored the Addison-Wesley book Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams (http://www.ManagingTheUnmanageable.net) and annually coauthors the Study of Product Team Performance (http://www.ronlichty.com/study.html).
Ron spent seven years as a programmer, two years as a product manager, and 25 years managing product and development organizations at all levels - to VP of engineering, VP of product and CTO - at companies ranging in size from tiny startups to Charles Schwab,Stanford, and Apple.
He now consults across that realm, taking on fractional interim VP Engineering and acting CTO roles, training teams in agile, training managers in managing software people and teams, and coaching development teams and executives in making software development hum. (http://www.ronlichty.com)
Ron has long been a popular speaker at product, development and agile meetups and conferences. Ron@RonLichty.com
Transforming chaos to clarity - acm 6.15
Does your software development feel chaotic?
If you have ever been dissatisfied with your software development flow - if you would like to figure out how to avoid chaos - this is a presentation for you!
Ron Lichty has found himself repeatedly called in as the cavalry to help development groups stuck in confusion. A recognized engineering leader, Ron says, “I've found that I excel at coming in cold, identifying the causes of chaos, untangling organizational knots, creating roadmaps everyone can follow, building communications with other parts of the organization, and getting teams productive and focused on delivery, quality and customers.” He adds, “With a few pointers, any team member can more deeply diagnose their team.”
Ron is author of Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams, which has been compared by reviewers to Fred Brooks’ The Mythical Man Month. After managing software and product organizations for 25 years, Ron has catered his leadership roles to the needs of his clients, including interim VP Engineering and acting CTO roles.
Six years ago, Ron began training teams in agile and a year ago training managers in the nuances of managing software people and teams, whether in waterfall environments, or iterative or agile ones.
If you would like to become an effective agile team member then you'll want to attend this presentation. We’ll look at agile trends, software team pain points, product team solutions, and how every team member contributes to making teams excel.
Drawing from his experience with dozens of product development organizations, Ron will walk through the steps needed to assess your organization’s workings and pull together the elements that will bring order and increased productivity for your business.
Bio:
Ron Lichty has been managing and more recently consulting with software development and product organizations for over 25 years, engaged in untangling the knots in software development and transforming chaos to clarity. Originally a programmer, where he earned several patents and wrote two popular programming books, he was hired into his first management role by Apple Computer, which nurtured his managerial growth in both development and product management.
Principal and owner of Ron Lichty Consulting, Inc. (www.RonLichty.com), he has trained teams in scrum, transitioned teams from waterfall and iterative methodologies to agile, and coached teams using agile, iterative and waterfall approaches alike to make their software development "hum". In his continued search for effective best practices, Ron co-authors the annual Study of Product Team Performance.
Ron's most recent book is Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams - http://www.ManagingTheUnmanageable.net - co-authored with CTO Mickey W. Mantle. Published by Addison Wesley, it has been compared by reviewers to Mythica
Product owners - how to get your development team to love you (product tank, ...
Product managers and product owners can engage and motivate their teams to delight customers - or they can distract and dishearten their teams.
Ron Lichty has been a product manager, a CTO, and a VP leading both development organizations and product teams. As a development leader, he regards product managers who "get it" as key partners.
Here are 16 ways to engage and motivate product teams - and together delight customers!
BIo:
Ron Lichty has, for 30-plus years, championed delighting customers. He believes that strong product/engineering collaboration is essential to achieving that goal. Ron co-authored the Addison-Wesley book Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams (http://www.ManagingTheUnmanageable.net) and annually coauthors the Study of Product Team Performance (http://www.ronlichty.com/study.html).
Ron spent seven years as a programmer, two years as a product manager, and 25 years managing product and development organizations at all levels - to VP of engineering, VP of product and CTO - at companies ranging in size from tiny startups to Charles Schwab, Stanford and Apple. He now consults across that realm, taking on fractional interim VP Engineering and acting CTO roles; training teams in agile; training managers in managing software people and teams; and coaching development teams and executives in making software development hum. (http://www.ronlichty.com)
Ron has long been a popular speaker at product, development and agile meetups and conferences.
Teamwork - making your dream team come true
Agile Iowa 10.16, Silicon Valley Agile Trends & Leadership 4.17
What differentiates a successful software development culture?
Almost all of us have been on a high performance team. Just invite us, and we’ll sign up for another in a second! Typically, it was a team for which we worked harder - but from which we took away more exhilaration and joy than at any other time in our careers. What made it so? And what can we do to get it again?
We think successful software development cultures are ones that are not just performant but that both delight customers and are a joy for every team member to be part of.
One of the characteristics that differentiates agile cultures is that (finally!), it’s not just managers who are responsible for crafting culture - but everyone. And agile, done well, means every one of us engages in the crafting of it.
But agile asks people who are often introverted, highly-logical, independent thinkers not only to form teams but to make those teams self-organizing. It asks every team member to step up and collaborate.
Agile offers each of us the promise of a stellar team experience – provided we and every one of our peers steps up to make it so. We need to no longer just perform as individuals, but truly trust and respect and engage and share - behaviors that can feel at odds with the fierce independence that got us through school and into industry.
Speaker
Ron Lichty
In addition to training teams in agile, Ron Lichty has spent years coaching managers about how their roles change with agile. While his recent Addison Wesley book, Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams (http://www.ManagingTheUnmanageable.net) didn’t zero in on agile, both the book and the classes that he and his coauthor give current and prospective managers espouse a deeply agile mindset for managers. He also coauthors the annual Study of Product Team Performance (http://www.ronlichty.com/study.html).
Scaling Agile Teams
Ask any scrum coach about ideal team size and you’ll likely get the same answer: 7 plus or minus 2: that is, 5 to 9 team members doing the actual planning and work of the sprint.
But is that true?
And if it is, what do we do when we think we need to add a 10th team member to an already-maxed-out, 9-member team?
Splitting into two (or three!) teams seems fractious - siloing - so why would we cap teams at nine and split them at 10?
And what do we do when part of our team is local and part remote? Or when our entire team is scattered? How do we organize for best results?
Ron Lichty’s mantra is that software development is a team sport, which means that what gates productivity is communication. In this webinar, he’ll speak to organizing teams for effectiveness, productivity and joy.
Ron Lichty consults with software and product teams and organizations to make software development “hum”. Ron’s book, Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams (http://www.ManagingTheUnmanageable.net), published by Addison Wesley, has been compared by many readers to programming classics The Mythical Man-Month and Peopleware. His Live Lessons: Managing Software People and Teams video training for managers is available via O’Reilly’s Safari Bookshelf. Ron also co-authors the periodic Study of Product Team Performance (http://www.ronlichty.com/study.html).
Principal and owner of Ron Lichty Consulting, Inc. (www.RonLichty.com), he has trained teams in Scrum, transitioned teams from waterfall to agile, coached teams already using agile to make their software development "hum", and trained managers in managing software people and teams. He takes on interim VP Engineering roles and to other clients provides VPE-level guidance and advice to untangle the knots in software development and transform chaos to clarity.
He has led teams and organizations at companies like Apple Computer, Fujitsu, Charles Schwab, Avenue A / Razorfish, Forensic Logic, Stanford, Check Point, and dozens of startups of all sizes. He co-chairs the Silicon Valley Engineering Leadership Community.
AIPMM talk - chaos to clarity: managing the unmanageable, ron lichty, 12.7.12
Good software management:
⁃ How to recognize it when you see it
⁃ How to encourage it
⁃ How to encourage senior management to encourage it
⁃ How to collaborate with it effectively
What does good software development management look like?
How do good programming managers motivate their teams?
What are programming managers bedeviled by?
How are programming managers tormented by product managers?
What are the forces that cause discord between product and software development managers?
What can be done about feature creep and late changing requirements?
Why do so many parts of organizations expect feature requirements to change but not delivery schedules?
What are objectives shared between programming managers and product managers that could encourage collaboration?
What would happen if programming managers and product managers formed mutual admiration societies with each other?
Engineering challenges, product management solutions - product camp 2016
Effective, experienced technical product management is crucial to make software engineering hum: Engineering and Product Management are symbiotic. When engineering is chaotic, many times applying a product management “fix” can do the trick. Ron Lichty has repeatedly been brought in to transform chaos to clarity in software development. Here’s a set of diagnoses, each with a product management fix that product managers can apply to make engineering hum.
If we are agile, why do we need managers (code camp, 10.14)
A common misconception about agile is that managers are unnecessary. After all, agile is based on self-organizing teams. If the teams organize themselves, what do managers do?
Unfortunately, most scrum training plays into that. Think about it: how many trainers or coaches have you seen sketch the structure of a scrum team with a drawing that includes a manager? While there's always a scrum master and a product owner, the core team and maybe some stakeholders, have you ever seen a manager in that drawing?
This misconception can be a problem all around: A frequently cited barrier to agile adoption is managers who don't know what to do when their teams become self-managing. When they're not included in training, how would they (or anyone else, for that matter) know how to characterize their role. At the same time, organizations often lay down expectations of managers, some compatible with agile, some not.
Agile has clearly shifted the old roles and responsibilities. Managers bent on command-and-control are clearly a barrier to agile adoption. But managers who take a hands-off approach or are treading water in a sea of ambiguity will almost certainly stymie adoption, as well.
Ron Lichty believes (and so do a lot of the early agile thought leaders) that managers have critical roles to play in enabling success, both of transitions to agile and of agile itself. This session is about those roles.
Becoming an Agile Manager (bay scrum, 10.24.13)
A common misconception about agile is that managers are unnecessary. After all, agile is based on self-organizing teams. If the teams organize themselves, what do managers do?
Unfortunately, most scrum training plays into that. Think about it: how many trainers or coaches have you seen sketch the structure of a scrum team with a drawing that includes a manager? While there's always a scrum master and a product owner, the core team and maybe some stakeholders, have you ever seen a manager in that drawing?
This misconception can be a problem all around: A frequently cited barrier to agile adoption is managers who don't know what to do when their teams become self-managing. When they're not included in training, how would they (or anyone else, for that matter) know how to characterize their role. At the same time, organizations often lay down expectations of managers, some compatible with agile, some not.
Agile has clearly shifted the old roles and responsibilities. Managers bent on command-and-control are clearly a barrier to agile adoption. But managers who take a hands-off approach or are treading water in a sea of ambiguity will almost certainly stymie adoption, as well.
Ron Lichty believes (and so do a lot of leading agile thought leaders) that managers have critical roles to play in enabling success, both of transitions to agile and of agile itself. This session is about those roles.
12 Take Aways - Managing the Unmanageable
Twelve Take Aways: Managing the Unmanageable. We'll look at 12 best practices that make programming managers great but take most managers years to discover. Expect an interactive session.
About 95 percent of programming managers had no management training before being tapped to manage. Ron Lichty and his co-author Mickey W. Mantle, both former programmers, didn't either.
About half of managers never get any training in managing. Ron and Mickey were lucky enough to work for companies like Apple and Pixar that provided some general management training. But little to none of it was specific to managing programmers, or to managing programming teams.
The struggle to manage programmers and programming teams motivated years of weekend breakfasts for Ron and Mickey, during which they traded insights - on the challenges they faced - and solutions they had used and seen - the kinds of stuff they’d wished they'd had when they started managing.
Sharing insights and best practices with each other for a decade led them to realize they wanted to share what they had learned. And that led to spending eight years of free time writing their Addison Wesley book, Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams, http://www.ManagingTheUnmanageable.net. To their own hard-won experience, they added the best of the treasure troves they'd each collected of rules of thumb and nuggets of wisdom from their peers and programming manager thought leaders around the world.
Reviewers have repeatedly compared Managing the Unmanageable to The Mythical Man-Month and Peopleware, the classics on software development challenges.
About Ron:
Ron Lichty has been managing and, more recently, consulting in managing software development and product organizations for over 25 years at companies like Apple Computer, Fujitsu, Charles Schwab, Avenue A | Razorfish, Forensic Logic, Stanford, Check Point, MediaBrands, and dozens of startups of all sizes. Before that, as a programmer, he coded compiler code generators, was awarded patents for compression and security algorithms he designed and coded for embedded microcontroller devices, wrote two widely used programming texts, and developed the computer animation demo that Apple used to launch and sell a next-generation line of PCs. He has mostly managed development teams and organizations, but also product managers, project managers, testers, designers, … pretty much everyone on product teams.
The primary focus of his consulting practice, these last 5 years, has mirrored what he did as a manager: untangling the knots in software development. His career grew to VP Eng, VP Product and CTO roles.
As Ron Lichty Consulting, he takes on fractional Interim VPE roles, trains teams in scrum, transitions teams to agile, trains managers in managing software people and teams, and advises organizations and coaches teams to make their software development “hum.” http://www.ronlichty
Crash Course: Managing Software People and Teams (IEEE, 4.4.13)
"We'd like you to manage the team now." That's about as much introduction - and training - as many of us get before our first day managing. Often preceded only by, "You're a great programmer and you've got some people skills." But while programming cred and facility with people are helpful qualifications, what do you really need to know to manage well? What makes a manager great? What are the qualities that meld teams and deliver great software? Those are among the questions that led Ron Lichty and his co-author Mickey W. Mantle to write "Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams" (Addison-Wesley, September), now available for pre-order online. In this interactive session, we'll examine the great managers each of us has experienced, and the qualities, skills, finesse and gifts of greatness that made them stand out. We'll talk about "the rest of the job": managing up, managing out, and other aspects of being a seasoned manager that reports mostly don't see. And you'll take away a few best practices that take most managers years to discover.
Dream teams - making your dream (team) come true
What differentiates a successful software development culture? What differentiates high performance teams?
Almost all of us have been on a high performance team. Typically, it was a team for which we worked harder - but from which we took away more exhilaration and joy - than any other team in our careers.
What made it so? And what can we do to get it again?
Successful software development cultures are ones that are not just performant but that also delight customers and are a joy for every team member to be part of.
One of the characteristics that differentiates agile cultures is that (finally!) it’s not just managers who are responsible for crafting culture - but everyone. Yes, every one of the various kinds of managers engaged with product and project teams have a role in crafting culture and supporting the emergence of high performance teams. But agile, done well, means every one of us engages in crafting it.
Ultimately, stellar team experiences derive from us. We need to truly trust and respect and engage and share - behaviors that can feel at odds with the fierce independence from whence we’ve come.
How can people who are often introverted, highly-logical, independent thinkers not only form teams but make those teams self-organizing and high-performance? What’s the role of leaders in crafting culture that supports emergence of high performance teams? What can we all do to be part of a high performance team once again? How do we make our dream teams come true?
Takeaways / Lessons to be learned:
▪ What constitutes and characterizes a dream team?
▪ What’s the connection between agile teams and dream teams?
▪ What differentiates great agile teams from mediocre ones?
▪ What’s the role of managers, product managers, product owners, program managers and scrum masters in fostering dream teams?
▪ What’s the role of team members in fostering dream teams?
▪ Take away what you can do to transform your team to a dream team.
Talk delivered to Agile Iowa, Silicon Valley Code Camp, San Mateo Scrum Professionals, Silicon Valley Agile Camp, Eastern Iowa Agile, and Silicon Valley Agile Trends & Leadership
Speaker:
Ron Lichty
In addition to training teams in scrum, taking on interim VP Engineering roles, and advising organizations and coaching teams to make their software development "hum", Ron Lichty mentors managers about how their roles change with agile. While his recent Addison Wesley book, Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams (http://www.ManagingTheUnmanageable.net) didn’t zero in on agile, both the book and the classes that he and his coauthor give current and prospective managers espouse a deeply agile mindset for managers. He also coauthors the Study of Product Team Performance (http://www.ronlichty.com/study.html). His book was recently released as video training, http://www.ManagingTheUnmanageable.net/video.html
Keys to crafting an effective agile culture (svcc, 10.15)
What differentiates a successful software development culture?
Among successful cultures, what makes an agile one stand out?
We think successful software development cultures are ones that are not just performant but that both delight customers and are a joy for every team member to be part of.
One of the characteristics that differentiates agile cultures is that (finally!), it’s not just managers who are responsible for crafting culture - but everyone. And agile, done well, means every one of us engages in the crafting of it.
In addition to training teams in agile, Ron Lichty has spent years coaching managers about how their roles change with agile. While his recent Addison Wesley book, Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams, didn’t zero in on agile, both the book and the classes that he and his coauthor give current and prospective managers espouse a deeply agile mindset for managers.
If We Are Agile, Why Do We Need Managers? (AgileIndy, 5.14)
A common misconception about agile is that managers are unnecessary. After all, agile is based on self-organizing teams. If the teams organize themselves, what do managers do?
Unfortunately, most scrum training plays into that. Think about it: how many trainers or coaches have you seen sketch the structure of a scrum team with a drawing that includes a manager? While there's always a scrum master and a product owner, the core team and maybe some stakeholders, have you ever seen a manager in that drawing?
This misconception can be a problem all around: A frequently cited barrier to agile adoption is managers who don't know what to do when their teams become self-managing. When they're not included in training, how would they (or anyone else, for that matter) know how to characterize their role. At the same time, organizations often lay down expectations of managers, some compatible with agile, some not.
Agile has clearly shifted the old roles and responsibilities. Managers bent on command-and-control are clearly a barrier to agile adoption. But managers who take a hands-off approach or are treading water in a sea of ambiguity will almost certainly stymie adoption, as well.
Ron Lichty believes (and so do a lot of the early agile thought leaders) that managers have critical roles to play in enabling success, both of transitions to agile and of agile itself. This session is about those roles.
Agile Is Hard (AgileCampSV 2014)
Almost no one on software teams believes in waterfall any longer. That's what we learned from the surveys we took in the course of authoring The 2013 Study of Product Team Performance.
But that doesn't make agile a magic pill.
Mike Cohn notes, "Becoming agile is hard. It is harder than most other organizational change efforts I've witnessed or been part of [for reasons] including the need to change from the top-down and bottom-up simultaneously, the impossibility of knowing exactly what the end state will look like, the dramatic and pervasive changes caused by Scrum, the difficulty adding more change on top of all that is already occurring, and the need to avoid turning Scrum into a list of best practices."
How do we get beyond that?
Glossing over the reality that agile is hard leads us to ignore the very things we need to address to succeed.
On the other hand, acknowledging that agile is hard lets us focus on the challenges that have been preventing us from becoming high performance teams.
This session combines a presentation, a panel and some shared thinking to move beyond how simple agile seems - to what in fact makes agile transformations hard - to how we can face down those challenges to achieve agile's promise.
Expected Takeaways (outcome) for Audience *
For those just starting agile transformations: a heads-up that implementing practices only goes so far.
For those well into agile but struggling, a sense they're not alone.
For all of us, a window into how to get to where we want to go.
12 take aways - managing the unmanageable
Silicon Valley Code Camp presentation, October 2013, drawing 12 of the top actionable take-aways for managing programmers and programming teams, from the book, Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams, by Mickey W. Mantle and Ron Lichty.
What's hot (20)
Leading and Motivating Engineers - what product managers need to know - prod...
Leading and Motivating Engineers - what product managers need to know - prod...
Crash Course - managing software people and teams (sfelc, 10.26.16)
Crash Course - managing software people and teams (sfelc, 10.26.16)
Product owners - how to get your development team to love you (product school...
Product owners - how to get your development team to love you (product school...
Product owners - how to get your development team to love you (product tank, ...
Product owners - how to get your development team to love you (product tank, ...
AIPMM talk - chaos to clarity: managing the unmanageable, ron lichty, 12.7.12
AIPMM talk - chaos to clarity: managing the unmanageable, ron lichty, 12.7.12
Engineering challenges, product management solutions - product camp 2016
Engineering challenges, product management solutions - product camp 2016
If we are agile, why do we need managers (code camp, 10.14)
If we are agile, why do we need managers (code camp, 10.14)
Crash Course: Managing Software People and Teams (IEEE, 4.4.13)
Crash Course: Managing Software People and Teams (IEEE, 4.4.13)
Keys to crafting an effective agile culture (svcc, 10.15)
Keys to crafting an effective agile culture (svcc, 10.15)
If We Are Agile, Why Do We Need Managers? (AgileIndy, 5.14)
If We Are Agile, Why Do We Need Managers? (AgileIndy, 5.14)
Viewers also liked
Prioritizing The Product Backlog AIPMM Webinar
AIPMM Webinar 5/14/2010 by Greg Cohen & Ron Lichty: Real World Strategies for Prioritizing the Product Backlog
Managing Using Intuition and Rules of Thumb 050113
Presentation to the IEEE Technology Management Council, Santa Clara Valley /San Francisco Chapter
Becoming an Agile Manager (Agile Camp, 9.21.13), by Ron Lichty
A common misconception about agile is that managers are unnecessary. After all, agile is based on self-organizing teams. If the teams organize themselves, what do managers do?
Unfortunately, most scrum training plays into that. Think about it: how many trainers or coaches have you seen sketch the structure of a scrum team with a drawing that includes a manager? While there's always a scrum master and a product owner, the core team and maybe some stakeholders, have you ever seen a manager in that drawing?
This misconception can be a problem all around: A frequently cited barrier to agile adoption is managers who don't know what to do when their teams become self-managing. When they're not included in training, how would they (or anyone else, for that matter) know how to characterize their role. At the same time, organizations often lay down expectations of managers, some compatible with agile, some not.
Agile has clearly shifted the old roles and responsibilities. Managers bent on command-and-control are clearly a barrier to agile adoption. But managers who take a hands-off approach or are treading water in a sea of ambiguity will almost certainly stymie adoption, as well.
Ron Lichty believes (and so do a lot of leading agile thought leaders) that managers have critical roles to play in enabling success, both of transitions to agile and of agile itself. This session is about those roles.
Structured military messaging & NEO Net Enabled Operations
Slides explaining structured military messaging and it's role in Network Centric Warfare / Net Enabled Operations NEO
Lean Software Development: On Radiators and Refrigerators
My presentation at the first Ignite Sydney. In hindsight I should have titled it: "No Problem is a Problem: Lean Thinking for Managing Software Development"
Prioritise: Kanban Recipe for Success Step 5
Prioritise: Kanban Recipe for Success Step 5. Presented at the Sydney Limited WIP Society
Think Like an Agilist - Agile Sydney 2014
Culture is not just visible artefacts and behaviour, value statements, and culture books. The foundation of culture is our underlying mental processes, beliefs, and assumptions.
Think Like an Agilist is an exercise using difficult scenarios, and think-aloud protocol, to expose and allow us to examine and practice adjusting our assumptions (aka culture).
Agile Sydney 2014 version.
Lean more than startups, software development, manufacturing
Introduction and overview of Lean both in terms of its origins and in all its new forms
Think Like an Agilist (repeat) Sydney Agile and Scrum 2014
Repeat of Think Like an Agilist for the Sydney Agile and Scrum Meetup
Agile Australia 2014: Pop-ups and Startups in a Large Enterprise
Agile Australia 2014 presentation on an experience trying to create a customer-focused experimentation culture in a large enterprise
Edgy Lean, Agile, and Systems Thinking things that you may not have heard of
My presentation at LAST Conference 2012 in Melbourne: http://www.lastconference.com/
The general idea was to share edgy ideas that the audience hadn't heard of. I started with ideas that everyone should have heard of and then add on next level concepts.
Balance Demand Against Throughput: Kanban Recipe for Success Step 4
Balance Demand Against Throughput: Kanban Recipe for Success Step 4
Sydney Limited WIP Society session
Viewers also liked (12)
Managing Using Intuition and Rules of Thumb 050113
Managing Using Intuition and Rules of Thumb 050113
Becoming an Agile Manager (Agile Camp, 9.21.13), by Ron Lichty
Becoming an Agile Manager (Agile Camp, 9.21.13), by Ron Lichty
Structured military messaging & NEO Net Enabled Operations
Structured military messaging & NEO Net Enabled Operations
Lean Software Development: On Radiators and Refrigerators
Lean Software Development: On Radiators and Refrigerators
Lean more than startups, software development, manufacturing
Lean more than startups, software development, manufacturing
Think Like an Agilist (repeat) Sydney Agile and Scrum 2014
Think Like an Agilist (repeat) Sydney Agile and Scrum 2014
Agile Australia 2014: Pop-ups and Startups in a Large Enterprise
Agile Australia 2014: Pop-ups and Startups in a Large Enterprise
Edgy Lean, Agile, and Systems Thinking things that you may not have heard of
Edgy Lean, Agile, and Systems Thinking things that you may not have heard of
Balance Demand Against Throughput: Kanban Recipe for Success Step 4
Balance Demand Against Throughput: Kanban Recipe for Success Step 4
Similar to Ict educators win-win-win w agile, ron lichty, 1.4.13
5 Whys of Scrum
We often get asked why Scrum has only 3 roles, 3 artifacts and 3 ceremonies. In fact, our customers simply want to know why Scrum works. In these slides we try to explain the principles behind the prescriptions of Scrum, in the form of 5 Whys: Why Scrum? Why 3 Roles? Why 3 Artifacts? Why 3 Ceremonies? And Why agile engineering practices support Scrum?
AIPMM Webinar: Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Mana...
AIPMM Webinar: Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Mana...Startup Product Academy, LLC
Ron Lichty says, "The essence of the relationship between product managers and software development managers should be collaboration: pairing as product leaders. I've seen too many strained relationships. But I've also seen and experience the sparks of synergy that result from close collaboration - working relationships that have enhanced the product, professional and personal lives of everyone in the product organization and through the company." http://bit.ly/Q5HZ1xAIPMM Webcast: Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Man...
Ron Lichty says, "The essence of the relationship between product managers and software development managers should be collaboration: pairing as product leaders. I've seen too many strained relationships. But I've also seen and experience the sparks of synergy that result from close collaboration - working relationships that have enhanced the product, professional and personal lives of everyone in the product organization and through the company." http://bit.ly/Q5HZ1x
About The AIPMM
The Association of International Product Marketing and Management (AIPMM), founded in 1998, promotes worldwide excellence in product management education and provides training, education, certification and professional networking opportunities. With members in 65 countries, the AIPMM is the Worldwide Certifying Body of product team professionals and offers globalized trainings and credentials localized for specific markets designed to meet the challenges of a constantly changing business landscape. As the only professional organization that addresses the entire product lifecycle from inception to obsolescence in any industry, the AIPMM supports strategic partners with offerings in Europe, the Middle East, Australia, and SouthEast Asia, as well as North America.
AIPMM Membership benefits include the national Product Management Educational Conference, regional conferences, the Career Center, peer Forums, tools, templates, publications and eligibility to enroll in the Certification Programs. The Agile Certified Product Manager® (ACPM), Certified Product Manager® (CPM), Certified Product Marketing Manager® (CPMM), Certified Brand Manager® (CBM), and Certified Innovation Leader (CIL) programs allow individual members to demonstrate their level of expertise and provide corporate members an assurance that their product professionals are operating at peak performance.
http://www.AIPMM.com
Subscribe: http://www.aipmm.com/subscribe
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/aipmm
Membership: http://www.aipmm.com/join.php
Certification: http://aipmm.com/html/certification
Webinar Series: http://aipmm.com/aipmm_webinars/
Articles: http://www.aipmm.com/html/newsletter/article.php
Moderated by Cindy F. Solomon, CPM, CPMM
Founder, Global Product Management Talk @ProdMgmtTalk
http://www.prodmgmttalk.com
http://bit.ly/nbw9Yr
Hybrid model for software development
Abstract
The methods used for conventional software development cannot be used directly for the development of web applications. Today
most of the companies use scrum methodology for the development of web applications. But it seem to be difficult to use the scrum
in large projects because of the change of requirement late in the project and also it is difficult apply scrum in a big team. This
paper identifies and analyses the various changes required in the scrum methodology to make them applicable for the large
projects and reduce the cost.
Keywords: software development model, hybrid model, scrum methodology, prototype models
Learning Web Development with Ruby on Rails Launch
The slide deck for the first session of Singapore Rails Group (https://medium.com/singapore-rails-learning-group/about-singapore-rails-learning-group-65fffb3a43dd)
Introduction to Agile, by J.D. Meier
A brief and visual introduction to the Agile.
Learn the Agile mindset and the big 3 (Extreme Programming, Scrum, and Kanban). Be able to whiteboard a simple view of how each one works to get things done and make things happen.
IT/BPM Week 2020 Design Thinking
Slides for Design Thinking Introduction Presentation for IT/BPM Week 2020. Sri Lanka.
Agile Software Development
I normally teach Introduction to Agile and Scrum over a 2 day session to teams. Here is a highly condensed 2-hour version of it that covers agile thinking and introduces scrum as a framework without getting into details.
I use it as a course material for teaching to teams or groups looking to get a perspective on "why" as opposed to "how" aspect of agile.
Introduction to Test Driven Development
An introduction of Test Driven Development concepts, looking how an individual, a pair or a team can start looking at Test First Design practices.
Samuel Zobel
Seeking Jr. role. Key languages of focus : javascript, react, java, spring mvc, ruby, ruby on rails.
ChicagoJS's JSCAMP 2019 Keynote - Inclusive Architecture - Building Sustainab...
ChicagoJS's JSCAMP 2019 Keynote - Inclusive Architecture - Building Sustainable Dev Teams with the PAMstack
What can DesignOps do for you? by Carol Smith at TLMUX in Montreal
You have probably seen the terms DesignOps and/or ResearchOps float by in your social media queue. These teams make designing (and researching) at scale beautifully efficient and successful. Carol steps through how these teams work, the types of activities they perform, situations they are helpful for, and ways you can leverage these types of programs in your organization. Carol will share examples from her experiences and stories from other organizations that are using Design Ops to do effective design at scale.
Presented at Tout le monde UX in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on February 28, 2019. http://toutlemonde-ux.com/
Success with SharePoint
ASAE Technology Conference 2011.
Conversation that Matters: SharePoint - Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Presenter: John Stover
Wednesday December 7, 3:15 – 4:30 pm
In this highly conversational session, John discusses SharePoint implementation best practices. These are often best learned and easily defined when things go wrong. You are invited to share your stories as well as lessons learned. Help those currently in the beginning or in the midst of SharePoint implementations.
Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations by Jez Humble a...
High performing organizations don't trade off quality, throughput, and reliability: they work to improve all of these and use their software delivery capability to drive organizational performance. In this talk, Jez presents the results from DevOps Research and Assessment's five-year research program, including how continuous delivery and good architecture produce higher software delivery performance, and how to measure culture and its impact on IT and organizational culture. They explain the importance of knowing how (and what) to measure so you focus on what’s important and communicate progress to peers, leaders, and stakeholders. Great outcomes don’t realize themselves, after all, and having the right metrics gives us the data we need to keep getting better at building, delivering, and operating software systems.
More details:
https://confengine.com/agile-india-2019/proposal/8524/building-and-scaling-high-performing-technology-organizations
Conference link: https://2019.agileindia.org
Your Company Cares About Open Source Sustainability, But Are You Measuring an...
Presented at: All Things Open 2019
Presented by: Dani Gellis, Indeed
Product Management for AI
Companies that understand how to apply AI will scale and win their respective markets over the next decade. That said, delivering on this promise and managing machine learning projects is much harder than most people anticpate. Many organizations hire teams of PhDs and data scientists, then fail to ship products that move business metrics. The root cause is often a lack of product strategy for AI, or the failure to adapt their product development processes to the needs of machine learning systems. This talk will cover some of the common ways machine learning fails in practice, the tactical responsibilities of AI product managers, and how to approach product strategy for AI.
Peter Skomoroch, former Head of Data Products at Workday and LinkedIn, will describe how you can navigate these challenges to ship metric moving AI products that matter to your business.
Peter will provide practical advice on:
* The role of an AI Product Manager
* How to evaluate and prioritize your AI projects
* The ways AI product management differs from traditional product management
* Bridging the worlds of design and machine learning
* Making trade offs between data quality and other business metrics
Similar to Ict educators win-win-win w agile, ron lichty, 1.4.13 (20)
AIPMM Webinar: Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Mana...
AIPMM Webinar: Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Mana...
AIPMM Webcast: Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Man...
AIPMM Webcast: Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Man...
Learning Web Development with Ruby on Rails Launch
Learning Web Development with Ruby on Rails Launch
ChicagoJS's JSCAMP 2019 Keynote - Inclusive Architecture - Building Sustainab...
ChicagoJS's JSCAMP 2019 Keynote - Inclusive Architecture - Building Sustainab...
What can DesignOps do for you? by Carol Smith at TLMUX in Montreal
What can DesignOps do for you? by Carol Smith at TLMUX in Montreal
Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations by Jez Humble a...
Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations by Jez Humble a...
Your Company Cares About Open Source Sustainability, But Are You Measuring an...
Your Company Cares About Open Source Sustainability, But Are You Measuring an...
More from Ron Lichty
What the Heck Is a Product Owner?
What the heck is a product owner?
What's this Product Owner role, what do teams expect of Product Owners, what do Execs expect, what defines success, and where do Product Owners fit within product management?
Presenter: Ron Lichty
Ron Lichty has been managing software development and product organizations for 30 years at companies of all sizes, the most recent 15 years as a VP Engineering and VP Product. He is the author of Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams, http://www.ManagingTheUnmanageable.net. He advises and coaches business, product and engineering leaders how to make their software development "hum". http://www.ronlichty.com
Do you want to be a manager (are you sure)
Managing programmers is hard! Becoming a successful manager requires a drastic change of focus. There are expectations to consider before making a leap to the “dark side.”
The transition from programmer to manager is made particularly challenging by the dramatic difference between what made us successful as programmers and what it takes to successfully manage others. In addition, programmers are an interesting management challenge.
We tend to be free spirits, playful, curious, and (very) independent.
How can you ease the transition into management? What’s management really about? What will you give up?
Bio:
Ron Lichty wants to make software development better worldwide by advancing the practice of software development management. He has been alternating between consulting with and managing software development and product organizations for 25 years, almost all of those spent untangling the knots in software development and transforming chaos to clarity, the last 20 of those in the era of Agile. Originally a programmer, he earned several patents and wrote two popular programming books before being hired into his first management role by Apple Computer, which nurtured his managerial growth in both development and product management roles.
Principal and owner of Ron Lichty Consulting, Inc. (www.RonLichty.com), Ron has repeatedly been brought in as an acting CTO and interim vice president of engineering to solve development team challenges. He has trained teams in Scrum, transitioned teams from waterfall and iterative methodologies to agile, coached teams already using agile to make their software development "hum", and trained managers in managing software people and teams. In his continued search for effective best practices, Ron co-authors the Study of Product Team Performance (http://www.ronlichty.com/study.html).
Ron's most recent book is Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams - http://www.ManagingTheUnmanageable.net. Published by Addison Wesley as both book and video training, it has been compared by reviewers to software development classics, The Mythical Man-Month and Peopleware.
During Ron's first three years at Charles Schwab, he led software development of the first investor tools on Schwab.com, playing a role in transforming the bricks-and-mortar discount brokerage into a premier name in online financial services. He was promoted to Schwab vice president while leading his CIO’s three-year technology initiative to migrate software development from any-language-goes to a single, cost-effective platform company-wide and nurturing Schwab's nascent efforts to leverage early Agile approaches. He has led products and development across a wide range of domains for companies of all sizes, from startups to the Fortune 500, including Fujitsu, Razorfish, Stanford, and Apple.
Ron co-chairs the Silicon Valley Engineering Leadership Community.
12 Take Aways - Managing the Unmanageable
His 450-page book, Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams (http://www.ManagingTheUnmanageable.net), published by Addison Wesley, has been compared by many readers to programming classics The Mythical Man-Month and Peopleware. It was recently released as video training - LiveLessons: Managing Software People and Teams - both from Pearson and on O’Reilly’s Safari Network (http://www.ManagingTheUnmanageable.net/video.html). He also co-authors the biannual Study of Product Team Performance (http://www.ronlichty.com/study.html).
Product owners how to get your development team to love you (product camp, 3...
Presented to Silicon Valley Product Camp '15:
Product managers and product owners can engage and motivate their teams to delight customers - or they can distract and dishearten their teams. Ron Lichty has been a product manager and VP leading both development organizations and product teams. As a development leader, he regards product managers who "get it" as key partners. Here are 16 ways to engage and motivate product teams - and together delight customers!
If We Are Agile, Why Do We Need Managers? (sv-aln, 7.14)
A common misconception about agile is that managers are unnecessary. After all, agile is based on self-organizing teams. If the teams organize themselves, what do managers do?
Unfortunately, most scrum training plays into that. Think about it: how many trainers or coaches have you seen sketch the structure of a scrum team with a drawing that includes a manager? While there's always a scrum master and a product owner, the core team and maybe some stakeholders, have you ever seen a manager in that drawing?
This misconception can be a problem all around: A frequently cited barrier to agile adoption is managers who don't know what to do when their teams become self-managing. When they're not included in training, how would they (or anyone else, for that matter) know how to characterize their role. At the same time, organizations often lay down expectations of managers, some compatible with agile, some not.
Agile has clearly shifted the old roles and responsibilities. Managers bent on command-and-control are clearly a barrier to agile adoption. But managers who take a hands-off approach or are treading water in a sea of ambiguity will almost certainly stymie adoption, as well.
Ron Lichty believes (and so do a lot of the early agile thought leaders) that managers have critical roles to play in enabling success, both of transitions to agile and of agile itself. This session is about those roles.
If we’re agile, why do we need managers (tri valley aln, 3.14)
A common misconception about agile is that managers are unnecessary. After all, agile is based on self-organizing teams. If the teams organize themselves, what do managers do?
Unfortunately, most scrum training plays into that. Think about it: how many trainers or coaches have you seen sketch the structure of a scrum team with a drawing that includes a manager? While there's always a scrum master and a product owner, the core team and maybe some stakeholders, have you ever seen a manager in that drawing?
This misconception can be a problem all around: A frequently cited barrier to agile adoption is managers who don't know what to do when their teams become self-managing. When they're not included in training, how would they (or anyone else, for that matter) know how to characterize their role. At the same time, organizations often lay down expectations of managers, some compatible with agile, some not.
Agile has clearly shifted the old roles and responsibilities. Managers bent on command-and-control are clearly a barrier to agile adoption. But managers who take a hands-off approach or are treading water in a sea of ambiguity will almost certainly stymie adoption, as well.
Ron Lichty believes (and so do a lot of the early agile thought leaders) that managers have critical roles to play in enabling success, both of transitions to agile and of agile itself. This session is about those roles.
How to get your agile development team to love you (product camp, 3.14)
Product managers and product owners can engage and motivate their teams to delight customers - or they can distract and dishearten their teams. Ron Lichty has been a product manager and VP in among leading development organizations and teams. As a development leader, he regards product managers who "get it" as key partners in delivering great work. This Product Camp talk delivers 15 ways to engage and motivate teams - so you can, together, delight customers.
More from Ron Lichty (7)
Product owners how to get your development team to love you (product camp, 3...
Product owners how to get your development team to love you (product camp, 3...
If We Are Agile, Why Do We Need Managers? (sv-aln, 7.14)
If We Are Agile, Why Do We Need Managers? (sv-aln, 7.14)
If we’re agile, why do we need managers (tri valley aln, 3.14)
If we’re agile, why do we need managers (tri valley aln, 3.14)
How to get your agile development team to love you (product camp, 3.14)
How to get your agile development team to love you (product camp, 3.14)
Recently uploaded
Cambridge International AS A Level Biology Coursebook - EBook (MaryFosbery J...
for studentd in cabridge board
Chapter 3 - Islamic Banking Products and Services.pptx
Chapter 3 - Islamic Banking Products and Services.pptxMohd Adib Abd Muin, Senior Lecturer at Universiti Utara Malaysia
This slide is prepared for master's students (MIFB & MIBS) UUM. May it be useful to all.special B.ed 2nd year old paper_20240531.pdf
Instagram:-
https://instagram.com/special_education_needs_01?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
WhatsApp:-
https://chat.whatsapp.com/JVakNIYlSV94x7bwunO3Dc
YouTube:-
https://youtube.com/@special_education_needs
Teligram :- https://t.me/special_education_needs
Slide Shere :-
https://www.slideshare.net/shabnambano20?utm_campaign=profiletracking&utm_medium=sssite&utm_source=ssslideview
How to Split Bills in the Odoo 17 POS Module
Bills have a main role in point of sale procedure. It will help to track sales, handling payments and giving receipts to customers. Bill splitting also has an important role in POS. For example, If some friends come together for dinner and if they want to divide the bill then it is possible by POS bill splitting. This slide will show how to split bills in odoo 17 POS.
ESC Beyond Borders _From EU to You_ InfoPack general.pdf
ESC Beyond Borders _From EU to You_ InfoPack general.pdfFundacja Rozwoju Społeczeństwa Przedsiębiorczego
Wolontariat grupowyOperation Blue Star - Saka Neela Tara
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
How to Create Map Views in the Odoo 17 ERP
The map views are useful for providing a geographical representation of data. They allow users to visualize and analyze the data in a more intuitive manner.
Synthetic Fiber Construction in lab .pptx
Synthetic fiber production is a fascinating and complex field that blends chemistry, engineering, and environmental science. By understanding these aspects, students can gain a comprehensive view of synthetic fiber production, its impact on society and the environment, and the potential for future innovations. Synthetic fibers play a crucial role in modern society, impacting various aspects of daily life, industry, and the environment. ynthetic fibers are integral to modern life, offering a range of benefits from cost-effectiveness and versatility to innovative applications and performance characteristics. While they pose environmental challenges, ongoing research and development aim to create more sustainable and eco-friendly alternatives. Understanding the importance of synthetic fibers helps in appreciating their role in the economy, industry, and daily life, while also emphasizing the need for sustainable practices and innovation.
Home assignment II on Spectroscopy 2024 Answers.pdf
Answers to Home assignment on UV-Visible spectroscopy: Calculation of wavelength of UV-Visible absorption
Palestine last event orientationfvgnh .pptx
An EFL lesson about the current events in Palestine. It is intended to be for intermediate students who wish to increase their listening skills through a short lesson in power point.
Supporting (UKRI) OA monographs at Salford.pptx
How libraries can support authors with open access requirements for UKRI funded books
Wednesday 22 May 2024, 14:00-15:00.
GIÁO ÁN DẠY THÊM (KẾ HOẠCH BÀI BUỔI 2) - TIẾNG ANH 8 GLOBAL SUCCESS (2 CỘT) N...
GIÁO ÁN DẠY THÊM (KẾ HOẠCH BÀI BUỔI 2) - TIẾNG ANH 8 GLOBAL SUCCESS (2 CỘT) N...Nguyen Thanh Tu Collection
https://app.box.com/s/4hfk1xwgxnova7f4dm37birdzflj806wIntroduction to Quality Improvement Essentials
This is a presentation by Dada Robert in a Your Skill Boost masterclass organised by the Excellence Foundation for South Sudan (EFSS) on Saturday, the 25th and Sunday, the 26th of May 2024.
He discussed the concept of quality improvement, emphasizing its applicability to various aspects of life, including personal, project, and program improvements. He defined quality as doing the right thing at the right time in the right way to achieve the best possible results and discussed the concept of the "gap" between what we know and what we do, and how this gap represents the areas we need to improve. He explained the scientific approach to quality improvement, which involves systematic performance analysis, testing and learning, and implementing change ideas. He also highlighted the importance of client focus and a team approach to quality improvement.
The French Revolution Class 9 Study Material pdf free download
The French Revolution, which began in 1789, was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France. It marked the decline of absolute monarchies, the rise of secular and democratic republics, and the eventual rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. This revolutionary period is crucial in understanding the transition from feudalism to modernity in Europe.
For more information, visit-www.vavaclasses.com
The geography of Taylor Swift - some ideas
Geographical themes connected with Taylor Swift's ERAS tour - coming to the UK in June 2024
Model Attribute Check Company Auto Property
In Odoo, the multi-company feature allows you to manage multiple companies within a single Odoo database instance. Each company can have its own configurations while still sharing common resources such as products, customers, and suppliers.
Thesis Statement for students diagnonsed withADHD.ppt
Presentation required for the master in Education.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
Recently uploaded (20)
Cambridge International AS A Level Biology Coursebook - EBook (MaryFosbery J...
Cambridge International AS A Level Biology Coursebook - EBook (MaryFosbery J...
Chapter 3 - Islamic Banking Products and Services.pptx
Chapter 3 - Islamic Banking Products and Services.pptx
ESC Beyond Borders _From EU to You_ InfoPack general.pdf
ESC Beyond Borders _From EU to You_ InfoPack general.pdf
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Home assignment II on Spectroscopy 2024 Answers.pdf
Home assignment II on Spectroscopy 2024 Answers.pdf
GIÁO ÁN DẠY THÊM (KẾ HOẠCH BÀI BUỔI 2) - TIẾNG ANH 8 GLOBAL SUCCESS (2 CỘT) N...
GIÁO ÁN DẠY THÊM (KẾ HOẠCH BÀI BUỔI 2) - TIẾNG ANH 8 GLOBAL SUCCESS (2 CỘT) N...
The French Revolution Class 9 Study Material pdf free download
The French Revolution Class 9 Study Material pdf free download
Thesis Statement for students diagnonsed withADHD.ppt
Thesis Statement for students diagnonsed withADHD.ppt
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...
Ict educators win-win-win w agile, ron lichty, 1.4.13
- 1. Delivering a win-win-win workforce with Agile programming methods Ron Lichty, Ron Lichty Consulting www.RonLichty.com Photo by Esti Alvarez, Some rights reserved, http://www.Flickr.com/photos/esti/4638056301/
- 2. * ______________________________ * Addison Wesley, publisher, October 2012 1/4/13 win-win-win workforce with Agile http://ronlichty.com
- 3. Rules of Thumb / Nuggets of Wisdom* * 300 in the book ______________________________ 1/4/13 win-win-win workforce with Agile http://ronlichty.com
- 4. Ron Lichty, consultant & trainer in Managing Software People & Teams SOFTWEST ___________________________________________________________ 1/4/13 win-win-win workforce with Agile http://ronlichty.com
- 5. “Doing What Matters for ICT Education” • California Community College (CCC) ICT Collaborative: – enable students to meet ICT workforce needs • Wins – Students in demand in the workplace – Workplaces meeting their most difficult to fill needs – Your ICT programs lauded ______________________________ 1/4/13 win-win-win workforce with Agile http://ronlichty.com
- 6. Achieving Wins • These three wins – Students in demand in the workplace – Workplaces meeting their most difficult to fill needs – Your ICT programs lauded ...cannot be achieved by teaching the “what” alone ______________________________ 1/4/13 win-win-win workforce with Agile http://ronlichty.com
- 7. ______________________________ 1/4/13 win-win-win workforce with Agile http://ronlichty.com
- 8. The Problems with Agile • Too few practitioners • Too many ingrained habits • Agile practices are not easy • Retooling programmers is tough ______________________________ 1/4/13 win-win-win workforce with Agile http://ronlichty.com
- 9. Best Practices We Hire For • Scrum • Test Driven Development (TDD) • Pair Programming • Collaborative Requirements Elicitation • Contributing Code Insights to Backlogs • Rapid Relative Estimation • Developing Iteratively and Incrementally – With Iterative Retrospecting & Continuous Learning • Emergent Design • Practicing Pomodoros ______________________________ 1/4/13 win-win-win workforce with Agile http://ronlichty.com
- 10. Where to Start? • Scrum • Test Driven Development (TDD) • Pair Programming • Collaborative Requirements Elicitation • Contributing Code Insights to Backlogs • Rapid Relative Estimation • Developing Iteratively and Incrementally – With Iterative Retrospecting & Continuous Learning • Emergent Design • Practicing Pomodoros ______________________________ 1/4/13 win-win-win workforce with Agile http://ronlichty.com
- 11. Test Driven Development (TDD) ______________________________ 1/4/13 win-win-win workforce with Agile http://ronlichty.com chart: Wikipedia TDD entry
- 12. Test Driven Development (TDD) “There is evidence that doing TDD takes about 15% longer... But there is also evidence that TDD leads to fewer defects. Two studies at Microsoft found that the number of bugs found went down by 24% and 38% with the use of TDD (Sanchez, Williams, and Maximilien 2007, 6).” --Mike Cohn, Succeeding with Agile ______________________________ 1/4/13 win-win-win workforce with Agile http://ronlichty.com chart: Wikipedia TDD entry
- 13. Pair Programming “Advocates of pair-programming are advocates because they believe that a pair is actually more productive than two separate developers. This is due to the continuous discussion and review that pairing introduces. You come up with better designs, make fewer mistakes, and make more people familiar with the code. All of these things offset having less people typing.” --Martin Fowler, who wrote the book Refactoring ______________________________ 1/4/13 win-win-win workforce with Agile http://ronlichty.com Photo by Menlo Innovations, Some rights reserved, http://www.Flickr.com/photos/menlopics/3928250043/
- 14. Pair Programming ______________________________ 1/4/13 win-win-win workforce with Agile http://ronlichty.com Photo by Menlo Innovations, Some rights reserved, http://www.Flickr.com/photos/menlopics/3928250043/
- 15. Best Practices We Hire For • Scrum • Test Driven Development (TDD) • Pair Programming • Collaborative Requirements Elicitation • Contributing Code Insights to Backlogs • Rapid Relative Estimation • Developing Iteratively and Incrementally – With Iterative Retrospecting & Continuous Learning • Emergent Design • Practicing Pomodoros ______________________________ 1/4/13 win-win-win workforce with Agile http://ronlichty.com
- 16. Ron Lichty Consulting • Mentoring and Coaching and Consulting: – http://ronlichty.com/ • The book: Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools & Insights for Managing Software People & Teams – http://ManagingTheUnmanageable.net • Training: now in development: – “Managing Software People and Teams: the class” – “The Agile Manager” (Email me through the site above and I’ll let you know when.) ______________________________ 1/4/13 win-win-win workforce with Agile http://ronlichty.com