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How to dig out of Technical Debt

November 22, 2022 by Rachael
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Technical Debt is often neglected, but it’s like building a house of cards – eventually, something will give, and it will all collapse.

Categories Agile, Scrum, Scrum Team, Sprints, Technical Debt

How to deal with Production Support issues in Agile

November 15, 2022 by Rachael
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My clients ask: “How do we deal with Production Support issues in Agile when our Scrum Team supports both the product and its development?”

Categories Agile, Product Backlog, Product Ownership, Scrum Team, Sprint Planning, Sprints

What happens with part-time Scrum Team members?

November 10, 2022 by Rachael
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Ideally, your Scrum Team includes full-time people with the right cross-functional skills; but if you have part-timers, you’ll have problems.

Categories Agile, Leadership, Product Backlog, Product Ownership, Scrum, Scrum Team, Sprints

Top 10 Problems with Product Owners in Scrum

November 8, 2022 by Rachael
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Without a caring, competent Product Owner, most products will fail to come to fruition, earn and retain market share, and evolve.

Categories Accountabilities, Agile, Product Ownership, Scrum

What happens when you don’t have a fully cross-functional Scrum Team?

October 27, 2022 by Rachael
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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?

Categories Agile, Product Backlog, Product Ownership, Retrospectives, Scrum, Scrum Master, Scrum Team, Sprint Goal, Sprints

Product Owner Problems with Money

August 17, 2021 by Rachael
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What happens when a Product Owner doesn’t have control or even visibility into the product’s budget? No one will know if it’s successful.

Categories Agile, Product Ownership, Scrum, Scrum Team

5 Ways a Product Owner should NOT Behave, Part 2

July 8, 2021 by Rachael
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In blog two of three, I cover five more ways a Product Owner on a Scrum Team should not behave. Watch out for these behaviors or traits.

Categories Acceptance Criteria, Agile, Business Analysis, Product Backlog, Product Ownership, Project Management, Scrum, Scrum Team, Sprint Goal

When your Agile Requirements go Wrong, Part 4

July 1, 2021July 1, 2021 by Rachael
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In the fourth and final blog in this series on what happens when Agile requirements go wrong, I tackle the final four anti-patterns.

Categories Agile, Product Ownership, Requirements, Scrum, Scrum Team, Sprints, User Stories

Six Perils of a “technical” Product Owner

June 18, 2021June 17, 2021 by Rachael
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If your Product Owner used to be a developer or has a technical background rather than business experience, you may run into a few issues.

Categories Acceptance Criteria, Agile, Product Backlog, Product Ownership, Sprint Backlog, Sprints, User Stories

Product Owner Struggles with Stakeholders

June 8, 2021June 8, 2021 by Rachael
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There are many problems and struggles that can occur between Product Owners and their stakeholders. Thankfully, most of them are avoidable.

Categories Agile, Product Backlog, Product Ownership, Scrum, Stakeholders, Techniques
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