One of the biggest challenges facing the Scrum community is understanding the role of Product Owner(PO). Most of the Scrum teams believe that PO is a mediator between the customer and the teams. That is, there is a strong belief…
Weekend Escape is an agile backlog management game where small teams collaborate to order a backlog with a specific business goal in mind. Once the team has produced their backlog, they review the output of another team and discuss the…
The following was originally published in Mike Cohn's monthly newsletter. If you like what you're reading, sign up to have this content delivered to your inbox weeks before it's posted on the blog, here. Product backlog refinement—sometimes called product backlog…
The impression that “our problems are different” is a common disease that afflicts management the world over. They are different, to be sure, but the principles that will help to improve the quality of product and service are universal in…
Humans typically crawl before we learn to walk, and walk before we learn to run. But sometimes what we call running is really more like a walk, and sometimes when we’re in a real hurry we’ve been known to skip…
On Tuesday, JIRA Product Managers Otto Ruettiner and Eve Stankiewicz hosted a webinar on performance testing. In 30 minutes, they revealed the five secrets of ensuring a highly-performant large scale JIRA instance. Check out the recording and learn everything you need to…
Geoff Watts is one of the leading Scrum thinkers in the world, and one of the few to hold both the Certified Scrum Trainer and Certified Scrum Coach designation. In addition to his book, "Scrum Mastery: From, From Good To…
Hello Folks, We readily admit that this hyper Agile-innovation-do-your development-work-in-the-public-domain business model of ours can make for an interesting journey of discovery for all involved. Working closely with our community of practice, we’ve devoted the last several months to the…
Long-term planning and agile, is it really possible? Even when using an agile approach, there’s still a need to forecast over a long time period. The challenge is to combine both a long-term vision and frequent, continuous delivery along the way. We tend…
In my previous post on the first three Agile transformation failure modes, I focused on the LEADERSHIP aspects of failure: lack of real executive sponsorship, failure to transform leader behaviors, and refusal to change organizational structures. These next three fail modes…