More Agile Great Debates – Part 5
The fifth episode of “More Agile Great Debates” covers conflict, leadership, technical P.O.s, who writes User Stories, and extending Sprints.
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The Great User Story Debate: To Assign or Not to Assign on Agile Teams
Should Sprint Backlog Items (aka User Stories) be assigned to an individual, or left un-assigned? This is my latest Agile great debate.
More Great Agile Debates, Part 2
In the second part of my blog series on “Agile’s Great Debates,” learn about five more agile topics that people argue about and disagree on.
Do Agile Product Owners need training to succeed?
Some people can jump right into the Product Owner role, but for most, training provides an essential foundation to do the job successfully.
9 Organizational Changes to make when adopting Agile
If you are a traditional (waterfall) organization transitioning to Agile, you’re about to be in for a big shock. To make a successful organizational shift, many changes are needed, including: Traditional Agile Work is directed by manager Team self-manages Work is approached on a project basis Shift in focus to products instead of projects Work …
How do traditional Project roles change in Agile (Scrum)?
Scrum Roles In Scrum, as of the updated 2020 Scrum Guide, there are only three recognized roles: Product Owner Scrum Master Developers (formerly the Development Team) Now, let’s look at the responsibilities of each of these roles: Product Owner The Product Owner role on a Scrum Team is the most critical, and the most difficult …
My Scrum Team Doesn’t Want to do some Events
Each event of Scrum has a specific audience and purpose. While skipping some might be tempting, you might want to read this before doing so.
Top 10 Problems with Product Owners in Scrum
Without a caring, competent Product Owner, most products will fail to come to fruition, earn and retain market share, and evolve.
What happens when you don’t have a fully cross-functional Scrum Team?
So, you have a Scrum Team. But does your team have all the necessary cross-functional skills to get to a “done” increment each Sprint?
How to Screw Up Scrum
I can’t tell you how many times I have seen Scrum go wrong. If you want the perfect recipe for screwing up Scrum, you’re in the right place.