At the risk of being accused of bashing Scrum for the second time this week, I want to talk a little about the Product Owner role. What I want to explore a bit is why the Product Owner is such an important construct in Scrum… and furthermore, why it…
The product backlog should be DEEP: detailed appropriately, estimated, emergent, and prioritized.
On an agile project—as well as in many other cases—there is no single, wringable neck. To say there is a way of releasing the rest of the team from responsibility.
On a Scrum project, design is both intentional and emergent. The design emerges because there is no up-front design phase (even though there are design activities during all sprints). Design is intentional because product backlog items are deliberately chosen with an eye toward pushing the design in different directions at different times.
By properly setting expectations you can avoid the problem of having an otherwise successful transition or project sunk by unrealistic expectations.
Due to popular demand, we have added another Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) training to our listing of courses. There is an overwhelming need for well trained Product Owners, and we’re happy to take up the challenge. The next CSPO will happen on January 14 & 15 at our office in Newmarket, just north of [...]
A new visualization for showing the relative importance of scope, schedule and budget on an agile or Scrum software development project.
For the final cross-cutting theme in “Rethinking the Agile Enterprise”… Dennis and I are going to talk about talking.In other words we are going to explore how organizations talk to each other when delivering work. We plan to integrate the idea that…
Serge Beaumont posted a great article on the The Definition of READY at Xebia Blog. While the concept of being ‘ready’ for iteration planning is already in Scrum, I have found that it’s not something that gets a great deal of attention. Product Owners are left to “get stories ready” without having a clear definition [...]
Is there a difference between the value a team delivers and their velocity? Said another way… if I increase the velocity of the team… aren’t I getting more value from them over time? Like so many things we talk about here… the answer really dep…