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During a recent Product Owner training I gave the participants the assignment to complete the sentence "A great Product Owner..." The result was a nice overview of characteristics, skills and conditions necessary to fulfill this role in a great manner. In this blog post I'll share the result, completed with a short explanation and some more ideas of my own.

Last week I attended a workshop provided by Patrick Verheij, who is a board member of the Agile Consortium. Patrick explained the foundation of Agile and shared a characteristic of "Agile DNA" within organizations

What is a 'Product Owner'?

Recently I had a discussion with a developer about the amount of meetings we're having nowadays within organisations. Part of it was related to Scrum, "Since the introduction of Scrum all I do is attend meetings". And part of it wasn't, "Every week I need to discuss how to improve the productivity of my department... cancelling these type of meetings might be a good start..."

 

Comme on l'a vu durant la présentation, l'Agilité a des impacts à tous les niveaux et touche même les bases de données. Pour être capable de travailler efficacement dans un contexte Agile, le DBA doit ajuster sa manière de travailler autant en co

PST Simon Reindl discusses how he has guided organizations through lasting change, what makes it complex and how to overcome the complexity.

At some occasions we stop to look back. We see the trail we left behind, the bigger picture, the impact we made. Small or big. We think of the impact we hoped to make, small or big.

This is a list of 10 questions a Scrum Master may ask a Product Owner, in order to help coach them in their role. Of course, not all questions may apply based on your specific context.

A couple of months ago I wrote the blog post "What is Agile?". Although the term “Agile” in the context of software development is quite well known, the definitions vary.

This blog post talks about the issues caused by unlimited budgets.

According to the Scrum guide, sprint retrospectives are "an opportunity for the Scrum Team to inspect itself and create a plan for improvements to be enacted during the next Sprint."

Inspiring Lessons From the Life Journey of Mr. Warrick Dunn   __________    

It is my favorite time of the year - Fall, the season of thanks, reflection and resolutions.

Recently I read the book 'The People's Scrum' by Tobias Mayer. In this book he spends a chapter on describing the differences between project culture and team culture. To me, the given examples of both types of culture are highly recognizable and I can easily extend and complement the list of examples with my own experiences.

PST Peter Gfader talks about organizations and teams and how to grow together as a team.

Where do you spend your days in the workplace? Are you living in the Scrum-oriented trenches of your organization, like the vast majority of us?

​​​​​​​In my previous blog post 'The 9 Smells of an Organization' I described the difference between the terms commitment and forecast. This resulted in an intriguing discussion that triggered me to elaborate some more on this topic and share the highlights of this conversation.

Are you considered an authoritative "leader" in your organization? Do you spend your day at the top of the tower or in the trenches?

A lot of people talk about scaling Agile. It’s all the rage nowadays. Everyone wants to scale Agile. But what does that actually mean? What does it imply? What are the underlying assumptions?

A few months ago I first saw the brilliant speech 'The Smell of the Place' by Prof. Sumantra Ghoshal. It's about corporate environments and the faults of management in creating a positive work place.

When Scrum is introduced in a company, most of the time, the development team embraces it with lots of enthusiasm.

The role of a Scrum Master is one of many stances and diversity. A great Scrum Master is aware of them and knows when and how to apply them, depending on situation and context.

The subject of this blog post might seem unusual. But having worked with multiple development teams, I've gained some experience with team members having (symptoms) of Asperger's. I mostly contributed to the team as a Scrum Master or Agile Coach.

Before I begin, I have to make sure you’re not fixed on a misconception. The Daily Scrum is not a status meeting, nor a report back to the team. It’s a planning event.

An agile development team is cross-functional, meaning that as a collective the team has the capability of building a potentially releasable increment (the working software).

The story of the Wygat Weed Whacker goes back many years – to the time we bought our first home in the beautiful town of Allen, TX.

 

A lack of defined engineering practices, standards and tooling is an often observed problem in software development, regardless of whether Scrum is used.

 

This blog post is about a little box. A little transparent box. The box contained only one sticky note. A sticky note with a milestone.

Although the Daily Scrum seems to be a simple and straightforward event, I still encounter a lot of teams struggling with it. In this blog post, I'll share my tips & tactics.

This webinar is a beginning to understanding the latest buzzword DevOps in the context of scrum.

Update: after receiving some valuable feedback, I've added the third lesson learned. 

Have you ever seen a Sprint Backlog that can be reused across Sprints? I have!

The concept of user stories is a well-known tool for describing requirements. In a simple format, it captures the ‘who’, ‘what’ and ‘why’ of a requirement.

GREAT DALLAS ICE STORM OF 2013  

This blog is the sequel to my earlier blog - Ent

The role of a Scrum Master is one of many stances and diversity. A great Scrum Master is aware of them and knows when and how to apply them, depending on situation and context. Everything with the purpose of helping people understand and apply the Scrum framework better.

WALT'S CHALLENGE   

The Scrum Guide begins the description of the role of the Product Owner as follows:

In this AgileConnection article, Scrum.org Professional Scrum Trainer Charles Suscheck discusses the role of Product Owner and if you really want to get the benefit of Scrum, you have to make the mind shift to product ownership, not project management or project ownership.

There’s an old Wayne Gretzky quote that I love...

A pair of recent findings from the Standish Group confirm the astonishing success and cost savings of Agile approaches over waterfall.

The role of a Scrum Master is one of many stances and diversity. A great Scrum Master is aware of them and knows when and how to apply them, depending on situation and context. Everything with the purpose of helping people understand and apply the Scrum framework better.

This is the final post in a three part series. Please like, share,and/or comment.