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Be a Good Team Member: Ask for HelpMany people think asking for help is a sign of weakness, but it's actually a sign of strength, an indication that you’re willing to admit you can’t know everything and do everything yourself. Asking for help is necessary for anyone who wants his team to deliver on time and within budget. | 
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Working Your Way Out of Large Technical Debt in a Small ProjectWhen you transition to agile with a small project and you have a reasonably sized codebase, chances are quite good that you’ve been working on the product for a while. You have legacy code—and that code comes with technical debt. Johanna Rothman has ideas about how to work yourself out of it. | 
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Tips for Picking the Right Software TechnologyWhen all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. You may have heard this quote before, but it applies well to software technology choices. The key to choosing an appropriate technology for a software solution is to avoid bias and carefully consider the requirements you know. | 
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Which Delivery Option Is Right for Your New Agile Program?With agile, you have delivery model options you didn’t have before. You can do continuous deployment or phased deployment, or stick with a traditional rollout. There is no hands-down best model. What you choose should depend on what your team and your customers need. Here's how to figure that out. |
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Do Agile Teams Really Need Managers? Steve Berczuk explores whether or not we really need managers in an agile team. Managers perform a variety of functions that are useful for self-organizing teams. The challenge is how to perform those functions effectively while keeping with the spirit of self-organization. |
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When Managing Multiple Teams, Think Networks—Not HierarchiesThe more complex your program, the harder it is to communicate. But contrary to some management styles, the larger your program, the less you want a hierarchy. It's better to assemble networks of people equally responsible for their problems. Read on for tips on how to organize for multiple teams. |
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Four Steps to Managing Programs with Agile and Traditional ProjectsYou are a program manager with some agile projects and some traditional projects in the midst of an agile transition. How do you manage the program? You have to help the traditional project managers work in some new and different ways. Here are four steps to help the adjustment go more smoothly. |
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Book Review: The Art of PossibilitySteve Berczuk reviews The Art of Possibility by Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander. The book will help you learn how to focus on what’s possible given a difficult situation, rather than just concentrating on the current problem. |
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