Episode 231: Agile, Coffee, Tea and Trains (Free)
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This week I am meeting with Craig D. Wilson . Craig is an experienced and very senior project manager who has been involved in the management of many large, enterprise wide programs that also included agile project management with scrum teams.
Because of this background I asked him to meet me in a coffee shop for an interview and answer the following “simple question”, which is: How do you scale Agile to the enterprise?
While Craig does not have a silver bullet for us that solves all our problems in scaling agile to the enterprise, he does have a lot of insight that comes directly from the enterprise front. This is hands on, practical, experience-led scrum agile project management training!
Before we get started with this interview here is a warning: If you are an Agile purist - that is to say someone who feels extremely strongly about implementing Agile or Scrum “by the book” and will be easily offended if someone suggests a different approach - then please press stop now. If that sounds like you, Scrum project management might sound like a strange turn of phrase! This is not the episode for you because Craig will give us his definition of Agile, will discuss the Agile approaches that he has applied on the programs that he managed, and present ways in which he scales Agile for an enterprise initiative. And he doesn’t do it 100% by the book. Instead he mixes and matches those approaches that makes sense for his environment.
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