Agile Tour 2015

Chennai Oct.31Jeyaprakash Rajaram

Senior Manager & Agile Coach - Cognizant

Polymorphism of Agile Project and Program Manager Role

YOUR PHOTO HERE!

Kartik RamachandranAssociate Director & Agile

Coach - Cognizant

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Clear Team Level Roles

Team Vs Program Level Ambiguities in Roles during Transformations

Ambiguities in Program & Portfolio level…

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Historically are Program Managers Overloaded in Waterfall world?

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PM Roles in Agile Programs – Industry Myths

• No longer needed• Don’t add Value• Scrum team will take care• Scrum master will take care• Product Mgr will take care

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Organizational ambiguities at Multiple Levels While transformation

• End to End Co-ordination - ?• Decentralized decision making

is going help really?• Scrum masters are going to

manage the team -?• ‘Team’ is a bottleneck to track

individual performance -?• ‘Individual Coaching’ will

backfire ?

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Ownership and Execution in Agile

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What is Polymorphism

Polymorphism means taking “More than one Form”, “Taking many Forms”

Program managers needs to take different forms while transformation !!

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Approaches from

Managers as capability builders

In removing obstacles and making improvements @ Program level & beyond

Helps the Team in Building the System thinking

Go See Gemba (Genchi Genbutsu) – Going to the Source

Reference https://less.works/de/less/management/role_of_manager.html

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Polymorphism of Agile Program Managers

Agile Program Manager

Empower the Local Decision

Making

Release Management

Optimize the Resources for

Release

Promotes System Thinking

Capacity Planning

Engineering – Activities

THANKYOUFor your attention!

jeyaprakash.rajaram@cognizant.com