Charter Your Project/Team for (Agile) Success - Johanna Rothman

Abstract:
Even in an agile environment, have you sat through project “chartering” where you were supposed to agree to what a title-based leader wanted? Maybe you’ve sat through team chartering sessions where the focus was on hugs instead of the work. You were pretty sure that if you could start the work, you’d soon see the reality of the work and the team. You’re right. Project and team charters don’t have to feel like time-wasters. Instead, they can free us to create great products and work well together.
Project charters help us see how to frame a container of work. And, team charters help us see how to work together. If you’re like me, you want to do both at the same time—so we can get to the work and see how to work together. Join Johanna Rothman in this interactive session. We’ll practice some chartering to see what might work for you.
Learning objectives:
Create a minimum project charter.
How to frame continuous work on a product.
Working agreements for any form of an agile team.
How to integrate the project and team charters.
Traps and signals when things go wrong with either charter.

Bio:
Johanna Rothman, known as the “Pragmatic Manager,” offers frank advice for your tough problems. She helps leaders and teams do reasonable things that work. Equipped with that knowledge, they can then decide how to adapt their product development.

Johanna was the Agile 2009 conference chair and was the co-chair of the first edition of the Agile Practice Guide.

Johanna is the author of eighteen books and hundreds of articles. Find the Pragmatic Manager, a monthly email newsletter, and her blogs at jrothman.com and createadaptablelife.com.