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The Software Project Manager's Bridge to Agility, a book  By Michele Sliger, Stacia Broderick, preview the Integration Management chater here http://books.google.com/books?id=5Ir-Bgy95w4C&pg=PA66&lpg=PA51&dq=Stacia+Broderick.+%22A+Change+in+Plan.%22+Agile+Development,+Summer+2006,&source=bl&ots=hCLx-qgdaZ&sig=ewsv1lROmTxoIShX4ujtzEDWURA&hl=en&ei=JZnySa-xAoqcMomkma4P&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#PPA51,M1 

Phase Gates vs. Sprint Demonstrations

Successful sprint reviews by Bob Schatz  http://www.scrumalliance.org/articles/48-successful-sprint-reviews Demo and tell your stories

No applause please by Ken Schwaber  http://www.scrumalliance.org/articles/31  Demo working software rather than pitching presentations

Customer vs. Product Owner Roles and Responsibilities

How to be THE ULTIMATE Agile Product Team / Agile Product Managers and Agile Product Owners Living Together in Harmony by Jennifer

http://agileproductowner.com/?p=15  Product Owner and Product Manager are often 2 different roles, here’s why. And project managers who can write use cases or stories can make excellent Product Owners.  Detailed table comparing and contrasting APO and APM.

posted 4/21/09 MMotamed

Organizational Insights and Comments on the Agile Product Owner Role blog post by Dean Leffingwell

http://scalingsoftwareagility.wordpress.com/2009/02/28/organizational-insights-and-comments-on-the-agile-product-owner-role/ Finding the right people to be Product Owners is a hard problem and it  is the right challenge for the agile enterprise and it must be addressed for agile success.

posted 4/21/09 MMotamed

Product managers and product owners, blog post by Mike Cottmeyer   http://www.leadingagile.com/2009/02/product-managers-and-product-owners.html  Much of what we think of as Project Management is actually assigned to the Product Owner in Scrum.

The product owner team , blog post by Mike Cottmeyer  http://www.leadingagile.com/2009/03/product-owner-team.html  Talks about The project manager as a key member of the “product owner team”. See also the related posts summarized here  http://www.leadingagile.com/2009/03/getting-back-in-game.html

The product owner and the problem shaped hole by Jeff Patton http://agileproductdesign.com/blog/2009/product_owner_and_problem_shaped_hole.html  The Product Owner is many many things, and especially is the product designer, it’s a superhero job.

The tree-headed product owner by Plamen R. Balkanski . http://www.scrumalliance.org/articles/78-the-threeheaded-product-owner  it wasn’t feasible to find a single product owner who satisfied all of the necessary criteria.  

 “Product Companies need Product Managers, not Product Owners” webinar with Rich Mironov http://www.enthiosys.com/insights-tools/webinar-prod-mgr-owner/ In the Agile world, a new title is emerging—the Product Owner—which covers a small subset of the Product Management role.

Project Manager vs. Scrum Master

The Road from Project Manager to Agile Coach, a video and handout by Lyssa Adkins http://www.scrumalliance.org/resources/363  Tells us how to be a coach, a leader thru service, an enabler, a facilitator

Interlocking Roles in Agile, a video by Lyssa Adkins http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NMu10Ql90Y&feature=related  Compare and contrast Agile Coach, Agile Manager and Product owner roles.

The product owner team , blog post by Mike Cottmeyer  http://www.leadingagile.com/2009/03/product-owner-team.html  Talks about The project manager as a key member of the “product owner team”. See also the related posts summarized here  http://www.leadingagile.com/2009/03/getting-back-in-game.html

Agile team members roles and responsibilities, a blog post by Aaron Sanders http://aaron.sanders.name/agile/agile-team-members-roles-and-responsibilities  See how Yahoo maps Scrum roles into traditional software development roles 

Agile Project Planning Tips: 

http://www.ambysoft.com/essays/agileProjectPlanning.html