Product Owner Quick Tips
When I first began my journey as an agile coach, I was focused on helping a great woman who was starting her path as a Product Owner. She had the business knowledge and a lot of [...]
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Category: Product Ownership
The 3 C's Refresher - Cards, Conversations, and [...]
When I train agile teams – especially Scrum teams – I always bring up my experience as a developer starting with eXtreme Programming (at least my company’s [...]
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Everyone wants to be a Product Owner until [...]
They realize that… They have to sometimes say NO to some stakeholders; They have to make decisions; short term vs. long term; tactical vs. strategic; now vs. later; They [...]
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A Dozen Ways a Product Owner can Re-Energize! [...]
Often agile organizations take the position that the Managers, Leaders, or the Scrum Masters are responsible for keeping the team focused and energized towards their work. And [...]
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Lean vs. Robust Backlog
I recently received the following email from Dwight Kingdon at Mindtree: I’d appreciate your thoughts on “Just in time” Product Backlogs. I’ve recently run across a [...]
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Measuring Product Ownership – What does [...]
Communication I consider communication to be one of the prime directive elements of solid product ownership. Now an important part of that communication is leveraging the natura [...]
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Measuring Product Ownership – What does [...]
In 2009 I first published Scrum Product Ownership. In 2013, I followed it up with a second edition. The book has been a popular read for those who are looking for a solid overvi [...]
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Should the Product Owner Care About...Sprint [...]
There seems to always be questions surrounding aspects of the Product Owner role. Folks are always looking for clarity around what the PO should and should not be doing. The [...]
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Even the BEST, can be Wrong
I’ve been a Mike Cohn groupie for as long as I can remember. Mike has written, what I consider to be, three of the seminal books on agile approaches for software development. [...]
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Replacing Backlog Grooming?
Derek Heuther, in a blog post on the LeadingAgile blog, took the position of replacing traditional Backlog Grooming with something else. The blog post can be read here. There [...]
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