What do you do when you’re a product manager (for web applications and tools) who has started a new job, assigned to an existing team who are just about to embark on the development of a range of new products and product features? We’ll whatev…
I was being interviewed for a Product Managers position by a Chief Operating Officer (COO) who used to do the job that I was interviewing for. The company has adopted and really embraced scrum so naturally expects the Product Manager to take on many of…
Last year sometime, I had the pleasure of hearing Jeff Sutherland speak at the Agile Atlanta group here in town. One of the things that Jeff always brings up in his talks, is that Scrum creates hyper-productive teams. I asked him how he defined hyper…
This is a companion post to last year’s “I’m a Certified Scrum Coach (CSC) – so what?” post. In that post I spoke about the advantage of using Certified Scrum Coaches over non-certified coaches for agile or Scrum training. I also wrote a post called “Agile Ponderings: Certification – useful or not?” where I explored [...]
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Agilists intuitively get that it’s a bad idea to build an inventory of detailed specs way ahead of when they are going to get turned into software. Why? Because we know that as our product emerges, we are going to want to make changes to those requir…
Just in case you are wondering… I’m not suggesting that our Credit Card Processing team shouldn’t do Scrum. I’m not suggesting that they shouldn’t improve. What I am suggesting, is that if the organization stops with this one team, they won’t get t…
If you’re not keeping up… you’ve got some homework to do. My last post called “What Do I Mean by a Complex Product” is required reading before you read this post. If you’ve got a minute, go read that post and then come back to this one… thanks! -…
Is the bug to the left a large bug or a small bug? It looks HUGE to me! Well, in reality it is probably between .5 and .75 inches long. Not really a very big bug at all. Why do we care? Because trying to size the fixing of software “bugs” is at least as hard [...]
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What’s wrong with the user story on the card? It seems to have everything we need: a) short title, b) a size (in this case 2), and c) a well-written story using the standard “As a … I want … so that …” format. So what’s wrong? Nothing! Well, almost nothing. The user story card [...]
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What if you are a manager that wants to do Scrum? You ask yourself if it’s possible to encapsulate the entire value stream into a single Scrum team? What if you learn that the answer is no? What if you think this through even further, and discover t…