What's your experience coaching teams toward being Agile
I started in late 2007, stepping up from a senior developer into an Agile Product Owner role. Most of my experience involves helping mid- and senior management transition over from Waterfall over to Scrum, with their initial expectations ranging from "Scrum will never work" to "Scrum is the magic bullet". A lot of it is training folks the basics of what a product backlog is, how to read a burndown chart and coaching them from a Waterfall to an iterative model. On the team side, adapting the amount of detail in the product backlog to the team's level of knowledge and the application of different formats for different needs has been the most eye-opening.
What do you plan to learn/explore at this conference?
I hope to learn from other product managers/owners how they manage the expectations of their managerial peers as well as senior management, in particular from the standpoint of performance/progress reporting as well as the general education regarding the transition from Waterfall to Agile methodologies. In addition, the sculpting of user stories/requirements to just the *right* level while permitting the teams maximum flexibility in design and implementation is something I'm still trying to learn. More exposure to practitioners of other Agile methodologies is also something I hope to do.
How do you plan to contribute?
By asking questions (lots!), contributing to discussions, sharing ideas and solutions that have worked for me, plus anything that is appropriate at the time.
I started in late 2007, stepping up from a senior developer into an Agile Product Owner role. Most of my experience involves helping mid- and senior management transition over from Waterfall over to Scrum, with their initial expectations ranging from "Scrum will never work" to "Scrum is the magic bullet". A lot of it is training folks the basics of what a product backlog is, how to read a burndown chart and coaching them from a Waterfall to an iterative model. On the team side, adapting the amount of detail in the product backlog to the team's level of knowledge and the application of different formats for different needs has been the most eye-opening.
What do you plan to learn/explore at this conference?
I hope to learn from other product managers/owners how they manage the expectations of their managerial peers as well as senior management, in particular from the standpoint of performance/progress reporting as well as the general education regarding the transition from Waterfall to Agile methodologies. In addition, the sculpting of user stories/requirements to just the *right* level while permitting the teams maximum flexibility in design and implementation is something I'm still trying to learn. More exposure to practitioners of other Agile methodologies is also something I hope to do.
How do you plan to contribute?
By asking questions (lots!), contributing to discussions, sharing ideas and solutions that have worked for me, plus anything that is appropriate at the time.