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Launching the Product Group

A lift-off creates the positive force that moves a team toward successful delivery, time after time.

—Diana Larsen and Ainsley Nies1

Chapter 8, “Preparing the Product Group,” showed you how you could prepare a product group for Agile adoption. We covered four essential areas of preparation:

  • Involve the managers

  • Understand the current reality

  • Create a vision for the future

  • Identify the product group

In this chapter, we build on that discussion and consider how to successfully launch the product group into its first iteration.

As you made it to this chapter, we assumed that by now you’ve made a thorough exploration of your product organization by implementing the Go See approach. You’ve discovered structures and ...

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