Agile Mashup

Hey folks… here is the deck I am doing this morning at Agile2010. I am pretty excited to do this talk… I finally feel like I’ve got the slide sequence and story right. It’s amazing what a good night sleep will do for you! My talk is in E-2 on th…

Uncategorized Product Manager, product owner

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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Scrum Agile, Antipattern, Development, Estimation, product owner, Tips

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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Scrum Agile, Development, Newbie, Practices, product owner, Tips

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…

Scrum product owner

The product backlog should be DEEP: detailed appropriately, estimated, emergent, and prioritized.

Uncategorized product backlog, product owner, Sprint Artifacts

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.

Agile Project Management agile teams, product owner, Scrum/Agile Roles

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.

Uncategorized Agile Planning, agile product management, product backlog, product owner, Sprinting

By properly setting expectations you can avoid the problem of having an otherwise successful transition or project sunk by unrealistic expectations.

Agile Project Management product owner, Transitioning to Agile

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 [...]

Scrum, Toronto Agile, certified, How-To Apply Agile, newmarket, product owner, Scrum, XP and Lean, Seminar, training

A new visualization for showing the relative importance of scope, schedule and budget on an agile or Scrum software development project.

Uncategorized Agile Planning, agile release planning, Metrics, product owner