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Epicflow Updates: Managing Teams and Dividing Project Work into Phases

Epicflow

The Epicflow team continues implementing the most powerful functionality to provide our clients with a variety of tools to juggle projects and resources most efficiently. Team Management: A Solution for Software Development and Agile Squads We’re proud to introduce this new feature that allows you to group your resource pool into teams.

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Encourage Lateral and Vertical Movement in an Agile a Career Ladder, Part 3

Johanna Rothman

That often creates a problem: great technical people become insufficient managers. Let's not blame these people—many of them didn't want to become managers However, if people want more responsibility, the career ladder often forces people into management. Note that the Senior engineer might influence the entire team.

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Unemployed Agilists: How to Increase Your Value to Get a Great Job, Part 3

Johanna Rothman

That's why Part 1 of this series discusses your value and what managers want and need. That part discusses why managers see agile coaches and Scrum Masters as staff positions, not line jobs. This post is about your deep domain expertise, first in product, then in agility. There way too many of you. If not, read it now.

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What Lifecycle or Agile Approach Fits Your Context? Part 1, Serial Lifecycles

Johanna Rothman

Are you trying to make an agile framework or approach work? Maybe you've received a mandate to “go agile.” Or, maybe you're trying to fit an agile framework into your current processes—and you've got a mess. I've seen plenty of problems when people try to adopt “agile” wholesale. Yes, cancel.

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How Value and Cost of Delay—Not Cost Savings—Applies to Centralization Decisions, Part 2

Johanna Rothman

To understand the value, let's look at the various Costs of Delay, especially for management decisions. Assess the Cost of Delay for Management Decisions In Why Minimize Management Decision Time, I showed a value stream map for portfolio decisions. And the senior engineers made roughly $200k/year. Their word, not mine.)

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Remote Work: Ways to Think About “Fair” Compensation and Benefits

Johanna Rothman

Before the pandemic, Jenny, the VP of Engineering, insisted that the engineering staff needed to work in the Boston area. She said that as long as teams had sufficient hours of overlap, she didn't care where the managers hired people. You might have other benefits you're trying to manage across many locations.

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Little’s Law for Any Kind of Product Development: How to Learn How Long Your Work Will Take

Johanna Rothman

Joanie, a new VP Engineering, joined the company a couple of weeks ago. Her boss, the CEO, wants to know how long it will take engineering to finish all the projects. These are delays due to management decision time.). Manage your environment or culture. Manage Your Environment. See Manage Your Project Portfolio.)