Strategies for Agile Multiproject-Management - An Experience Report (Jiri Lundak)

Have you limited resources and need to manage multiple projects in parallel? Do you struggle with task-switching and work-overload in your development teams? The following strategies are no silver bullet, but they might help you to get the most out of your team(s) without sacrificing quality and without wearing your team(s) out. They are derived from the experience made in a small company with a mixed project portfolio introducing Scrum as an Agile software development process.

About the speaker

Jiri Lundak is a software development oldtimer, with more than 20 years of software development experience, from the early days of host computers to distributed systems. He works currently as head of development for Löwenfels Partner AG, based in Lucerne, Switzerland. He is still actively developing software, but has recognized that most problems in software development are not of technical nature, but most of the time people problems. As a Practicing Certified ScrumMaster he acts as change agent for Agile practices.