project management
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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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How Metrics Distract Stakeholders on Agile Software Projects Metrics can be distractions to stakeholders from seeing true value in agile software projects. Stakeholders can gain more realistic insight by observing the intangibles—like accountability, transparency, and trust in teams—rather than just following the numbers on a software project dashboard. |
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Making Telecommuting Work for Your Product Development TeamCan you make telecommuting work for your organization? Of course you can. The question is this: Will it make your product development proceed faster, with more ease and less cost, and allow you the most flexibility? If not, you may want to reconsider having employees telecommute. |
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Will Microsoft’s Reorganization Achieve Its Objectives?Microsoft recently announced a massive reorganization to enable innovation at a greater efficiency. The move is being branded as the One Microsoft initiative toward the unification of their strategy. Anuj Magazine looks at the company's past and future organizational structure. | 
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How Agile Can Deliver on a Fixed-Budget (Not Fixed-Price) PromiseDevelopment projects run into problems any time they attempt to stick to a fixed-price, fixed-scope, and fixed-completion contract. Learn why this fixed iron-triangle sets projects up for failure and what agile teams can do to solve the problem and make the customer and the developers happy. | 
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