Comments on: Does Agile Programme Management Exist? http://agile101.net/2009/07/13/does-agile-programme-management-exist/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=does-agile-programme-management-exist Agile Project Management, Programme Management and Digital Publishing Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:04:21 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: Brendan http://agile101.net/2009/07/13/does-agile-programme-management-exist/comment-page-1/#comment-32 Brendan Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:27:52 +0000 http://agile101.net/?p=141#comment-32 Really enjoy your blog, lots of great material. I too am doing Agile Program Management and make up quite a bit as we are going along, you site has given me many great ideas. Our Program Management consists of multiple products with multiple releases for clients being developed by one team. We have releases going out every sprint for different clients. One of the biggest challenges we face and where I have leaned on traditional resource planning, is queuing client projects with fixed contracts, 1, 2 and 3 months out. We use a capacity plan to determine how many people will be available for the project based on a high level LOE in hours. It is a best guess often and requires constant attention from my ScrumMaster team. Often times we are asked to compress schedules so our financials look more appetizing for our parent company. We are somewhat victims of our own success,, our team always delivers and management expects this miracle every quarter! I wrote a post a while back called <a href="http://agilemusings.com/?p=106#content" rel="nofollow">Revenue vs Sustainable Pace - can they co-exist?</a> Where Program Management has played a pivotal role is standardizing metrics, providing visibility into pipeline, sequencing projects, resources and costs. Look forward to more posts on this topic and what I can learn from your experiences. Really enjoy your blog, lots of great material. I too am doing Agile Program Management and make up quite a bit as we are going along, you site has given me many great ideas. Our Program Management consists of multiple products with multiple releases for clients being developed by one team. We have releases going out every sprint for different clients. One of the biggest challenges we face and where I have leaned on traditional resource planning, is queuing client projects with fixed contracts, 1, 2 and 3 months out. We use a capacity plan to determine how many people will be available for the project based on a high level LOE in hours. It is a best guess often and requires constant attention from my ScrumMaster team. Often times we are asked to compress schedules so our financials look more appetizing for our parent company. We are somewhat victims of our own success,, our team always delivers and management expects this miracle every quarter! I wrote a post a while back called Revenue vs Sustainable Pace – can they co-exist? Where Program Management has played a pivotal role is standardizing metrics, providing visibility into pipeline, sequencing projects, resources and costs.

Look forward to more posts on this topic and what I can learn from your experiences.

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