Re: Completely new to Agile Dev principles, and it sure feels like I'm in over my head right now...

Why do you have to be the lone hero to solve this? Does anyone else want a
positive result? Who are those people that care and can be your partners in
improving the work? I don't mean lip-service people. I mean people who will
reserve and spend time doing things to solve problems.

Be transparent about the problems. Find the most painful one and work on
solving it. Sometimes one seemingly simple or small improvement can have a
huge impact. Your partners can help you find and improve those things.

I wish you luck!

Alan


On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 2:49 PM, Michael Vizdos [email protected]
[SCRUMDEVELOPMENT] <[email protected]> wrote:

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> If you have one boss, talk to that person about what is keeping them up at
> night that you can help solve for them.
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> One. Thing.
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> Work on that.
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> The rest is burning and will continue to burn.
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> While it totally can be a career limiting move (as you have stated with
> the resume comment) remember your job is to WHAT (get clarity on that).
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> I am sure others will have comments coming.
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> Good luck with this.  I feel deep empathy for you.
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> Agile and Scrum exposes organizational dysfunctions.  Here they are.
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> - Mike Vizdos
>   Focus.  #deliver
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> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017, 4:29 PM [email protected] [SCRUMDEVELOPMENT] <
> [email protected]> wrote:
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>> Hi, Scott here.  I work remotely (strike 1 against Agile Dev) as a newly
>> christened Project Manager for a software company that uses a combination
>> of onsite and offshore assets (strike 2) in their workflow as a matter of
>> process.
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>> The project I was handed as my first effort in this role is an enormous
>> (strike 3) database migration, where the client insisted we employ Agile
>> Dev principles because they wanted tangible deliverables to be delivered
>> regularly (which would be reasonable if not for the scope of the project).
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>> I knew, when I saw the scope of this project, that Agile was not going to
>> work, so I've been doing my best to adapt at least some of the principles
>> to improve workflow and engagement.
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>> So now I'm neck-deep in it, and I'm taking fire from all directions.
>> Trying to teach the offshore team about Agile principles and my need for
>> them to be creatively involved in the project instead of just waiting for
>> me to tell them exactly what to do and how to do it is an exercise in
>> futility thanks to language and culture barriers.  Even the client side is
>> driving me nuts.  The communication is so poor, my primary contact on the
>> client side is telling me that my burndown chart tells him that my team is
>> falling behind because the actual tickets remaining line is below the
>> projected line (!!!!!)
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>> I'm at my wit's end here.  Advise would be great.  And yes, I know, send
>> out resumes is good advice, but that's really not an option at this point.
>> I have to figure out how to keep this whole thing from crashing and burning.
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>> --
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> Thank you.
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> - mike
>
>   Focus. #deliver
>   www.michaelvizdos.com
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