Product Operations Program ManagerBarcelona, Cataluña, Spain
I resonate some the comments of my peers. Agile at team level can be easily (or easier) to enforce or implement since it should not require the buy in from management and it is a matter of getting the buy in from team members. At program/features or epic levels, management endorsement becomes essential.
There is no magic recipe, it is about understanding the principles and adjusting them to your needs or needs of your organization. Saving Changes...
Movement MusasiwaChief Technology Officer| Adrosoft HoldingsHarare, Outside Us And Canada, Zimbabwe
No recipe for agile, over & above what my fellow colleagues have said, you as an individual needs to understand what it is so that you can lead others. Once all stakeholders are aligned from all levels then it becomes easier to follow it's dictates. Saving Changes...
This very term was used yesterday in a question during our internal PM seminar in the context of "agile procurement". The response was very telling. Within our traditional project approval organization, there are formal, sequential, and lengthy oversight and approval processes. There is no such thing as "agile" within this framework or context. Yes, we can apply agile methodologies on specific work packages in between these formal approval gates, but there is nothing agile about the process from a holistic perspective. Saving Changes...
Justus NScrum Master| BCBSTXArlington, Tx, United States
There is no recipe. I have been through several organizational transformations going from waterfall to agile and the one thing that sticks out is you're going to need 100% buy-in from leadership, or else you're bound to fail. Saving Changes...
Wade HarshmanScrum Master| GDITIndianapolis, In, United States
"If you adopt only one agile practice, let it be retrospectives.
Everything else will follow."
- Woody Zuill
In other words, focus on continuous improvement Saving Changes...