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Live Webinar July 18th 2012, 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT or…
Live Webinar July 18th 2012, 10:00 am – 11:00 am PDT
Offered by: Rally Software ( REP 3156 )
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU or 1 CDU Category A

Note: This session will fill up fast – Allan is a terrific presenter with a lot of great information to share – Sign up today!

Product portfolio management is not simply about identifying the most important things to create and then focusing on them. Portfolio Managers and Program Managers need to also understand how this work must be managed across the responsible teams as well as how multiple projects or components come together prior to deployment.

In this webinar Alan Shalloway and Rally’s Ann Konkler will discuss how to manage multiple projects with multiple teams across an enterprise while avoiding command and control hierarchy including:

  • The real-world challenges they’ve seen
  • The limits of a completely flat organizational structure and the challenges of team dynamics at scale
  • How teams can be organized to share product backlogs to improve completion of work will be presented.

Presenters:

Ann Konkler, (LinkedIn profile) Agile Coach, Rally Software. Ann began her IT career as a developer working on mainframe applications. Her later roles included Business Analyst, Technical Lead, Project Manager, and Development Manager for infrastructure, eCommerce, and PMO teams. Ann is a Certified ScrumMaster and a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt. She is also certified in Project Management and holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Portland State University.

In 2003, Ann was introduced to Agile when she was asked to manage a group of developers who were early adopters of eXtreme Programming. Curiosity about the methodology soon turned to enthusiasm and then a vision for scaling Agile across the organization. Starting out as the management spokesperson for Agile, Ann eventually gave full attention to defining and rolling out a new IT-wide solution delivery life cycle, with Agile at its core.

Alan Shalloway (Linkedin Profile & @alshalloway) is the founder and CEO of Net Objectives. With 40 years experience, Alan is a thought leader in Lean, Kanban, PPM, Scrum and agile design. He is the author of Design Patterns Explained: A New Perspective on Object-Oriented Design, Lean-Agile Pocket Guide for Scrum Teams, Lean-Agile Software Development: Achieving Enterprise Agility, and Essential Skills for the Agile Developer: A Guide to Better Programming and Design. Alan is a co-founder and board member for the Lean Software and Systems Consortium.

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