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From the Trenches: Small Batches for the Win

October 9, 2023
This is a story about a former client. Early plans were to release a “Minimum Viable Experience” before year end. By late Spring, the Product Director described two “problems” and asked for my help: Release dates for the first publicly available version were slipping. And scope was expanding.
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Scrum necesita un evento de Planificación de la Meta de Producto

October 9, 2023
¿Por qué sería buena idea volver a incluir un evento de Release Planning en Scrum? En este artículo explico: - Por qué Scrum no tiene un evento de planificación de la Meta de Producto?  - ¿Qué beneficios le aportaría tener este evento? - ¿Cómo se conectaría con otros modelos como OKR o Evidence-Based Management? En este artículo lo explico.
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Should a Product Owner control the Budget?

October 9, 2023
What does Scrum say about a Product Owner’s relationship to the product budget? Do they have a part to play? Can they control the budget? If so… should they? In this video, Professional Scrum Trainers Greg Crown and Robb Pieper have a quick discussion that will enhance your understanding of what it means to be a Product “Owner”.
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The Seven Deadly Sins of Agile: Envy

October 9, 2023
In this video, Martin delves deep into the concept of envy within the agile realm, highlighting its dangers and misconceptions. He touches upon the infamous "Spotify model" and how organisations often fall into the trap of emulating others without understanding the context. 🚫📋

La incertidumbre, esa cosa que no nos gusta

October 7, 2023
La falta de certeza o confianza sobre algo futuro es lo que llamamos la incertidumbre. Es una experiencia universal que todos experimentamos en algún momento de nuestras vidas. Sin embargo, la mayoría de las personas tienden a evitarla o a tratar de reducirla al mínimo.
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What's the Best Way to Document Requirements on a Scrum Team?

October 6, 2023
How you manage requirements and ‘desirements’ can depend greatly on your team, company, needs, compliance, legal, etc… but what is the best way to write them? In this video Professional Scrum Trainers Greg Crown and Robb Pieper give some recommendations on how you can capture requirements, document them and share them with your team.
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Committees: The Silent Time-to-Market Killers

October 4, 2023
In this video, Martin delves into a topic that many organisations grapple with: the impact of committees on time-to-market. 🚀📊 He questions the common notion that removing committees can reduce time-to-market by up to 50%. Is it true or just another statistic plucked from thin air?
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The Forgotten Scrum Event

October 3, 2023
What are the 5 events in Scrum? Can you name them? Chances are that you said something like “Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective, and…. umm…..”
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Creating a Product Wall (1/7)

October 2, 2023
Product Walls are great tools that radiate information and support informed decision-making in the empirical world. Equally, it can be pretty tricky to build them. In this series, Ryan Brook and Sander Dur talk you through an example Product Wall and its components.
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Different Ways to Know your Customers

September 30, 2023
Product Owners must know their customers to succeed in today’s competitive markets. There is a common agreement among experts involved in product management about it. A lot has been said about this topic. In this blog post, I discuss the different ways to know your customers. To make it more practical, I share some tools to ease application in the work environment.
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Scrum: The Revealer of Challenges

September 29, 2023
In this video, Martin 🎥 delves deep into the essence of Scrum, highlighting its role not as a problem solver, but as a revealer. He draws a vivid picture, likening Scrum to a mirror 🪞. It reflects back to us the challenges and obstacles we face, making them visible so we can address them head-on.
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Increase Your Product Backlog's Transparency

September 28, 2023
Product Owners are accountable to provide stakeholders have a clear understanding of the product's direction. In this new episode of the take5IRL podcast, Jeff and Mike explore methods for enhancing transparency. Discover how providing transparency to the Product Backlog can foster a shared vision and facilitate meaningful collaboration with stakeholders.
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How to Make Your Org More Agile

September 28, 2023
How do you “implement agile” in an organization that has no experience with agile practices? Or does the phrase “implementing agile” even make sense? If agility is more of an outcome than something you do, how do you take an organization that is new to agility, and help them become more flexible and adaptable? PST's Robert Pieper, Gregory Crown, and Jason Malmstadt share their thoughts.
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Great Product Owners Facilitate Toward great Product Backlogs

September 28, 2023
This blog explores the crucial role of a Product Owner (PO) in managing the Product Backlog. Through facilitation, a PO can enhance team and stakeholder understanding of the Product Backlog, turning it into a narrative that drives everyone towards a shared vision and product goal. We discuss how the skills of storytelling and workshop facilitation, underpinned by core facilitation principles, significantly improve a PO's ability to navigate through backlog management and stakeholder engagement.
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Deciphering the Enigma of Story Points Across Teams

September 28, 2023
🚀 Diving deep into the world of Story Points! 📊 Ever wondered about their true value and how they fit into the bigger picture of team performance? Dive into my latest article where I unravel this enigma. Let's journey together from the subjective realm of Story Points to the tangible metrics of throughput and value. 🔄💡 #Agile #Scrum #ValueDelivery

Ready or Not? Demystifying the Definition of Ready in Scrum

September 27, 2023
Over time, various myths and beliefs have surrounded the concept of the Definition of Ready. What does it entail? It's all about the conditions that must be met for a Product Backlog Item to be considered ready for action and understood enough by the entire Scrum Team so that it can be pulled into the Sprint Backlog during Sprint Planning. While some embrace it enthusiastically, others avoid it like a burning flame. In this article, we aim to dispel any lingering doubts so that you can confidently decide "To use Definition of Ready or not to use."

Gestión del Product Backlog con el curso Professional Scrum Product Backlog Management Skills de Scrum.org

September 27, 2023
La Gestión del Product Backlog (en inglés Product Backlog Management) es una de las habilidades más importantes que debe dominar un Product Owner.  El Product Backlog es una lista ordenada de todo el trabajo que se debe realizar para entregar el producto.  El Product Owner es responsable de garantizar que sea lo más valioso y completo posible.