In this presentation I will discuss how to manage high ROI software development. In order to do so I will start by addressing the biggest challenges and then covering how to meet those challenges in a good way. I will draw from my experiences from managing consultants, managing products and managing people in a product management department. I will also make use of my experiences from coaching organizations working according to Scrum. Including teams, scrummasters, product owners, managers and stakeholders. What are the biggest challenges in managing high ROI software development and how are they best met. Participants in this seminar will get the opportunity to discuss management challenges and how to overcome them.

1. Managing
High ROI
Software
Development
Arne
Åhlander

2. Today
•Challenges
•How to deal with them

3. Good and Bad

4. Characteristics of
GOOD Projects
• Good
communication and
collaboration
• Clear vision
• Clear roles
• Clear
responsibilities
• Link to customer
• Openness and
frequent feedback
• Satisfied customer
• Happy team

5. Good communication
When discussing what is
meant by this, it is mentioned
communication between
team members, between
team and product
owner, between product
owner and stakeholders and
also communication to and
from management.

6. Clarity
This includes:
• clear vision
• clear goals
• responsibilities

7. Available Customer
Individuals and
teams developing
software products
value an available
customer, product
owner or
stakeholder.

8. Openess
Openess and
frequent feedback is
often included on
the lists of
characteristics of
good projects.

9. Happy Team
Last, but not least, I
want to mention the
characteristic of Happy
team. This is a
summary of the notion
of good team
spirit, good working
conditions and
motivated team
members.

10. Dealing with the
Challenges

12. Management Onion

13. Strategy
Portfolio
Product
Release
Iteration
Daily

14. Levels and Roles
• Team
• Product Management
• Line and upper Management

15. Challenge 1
• Pointing out direction

16. Challenge 2

17. • The Note Table, by Tom Seymour

18. • Clarity
Challenge 3

19. Challenge 4

20. Challenge 5

21. Challenge 5
• happy campers
• team members
• POs
• everyone
need to be happy about their work

22. Who does what?

23. Line Management
• Pointing out
direction
• Communication
• Clarity
• Boundaries for self
organization

24. Product Owner
• Available to team
• Create Product Vision
• Communicate Product Vision
• Iteration Goals
• Collaborate with stakeholders

25. Team
• Commitment
• Focus
• Communicatio
n
• Openness
• Decisions

26. Summary and
Conclusions

27. Challenges
• Pointing out direction
• Communication
• Clarity
• Boundaries for self organization
• Happy campers

28. Possible Solutions
• Vision
• Face to face as well as written
• Verify clarity
• Setting up necessary boundaries to
support self organization
• Ask and give feedback

29. Three things to
remember

30. Arne Åhlander
arne.ahlander@aqqurite.se
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