Product Owner Quick Tips
When I first began my journey as an agile coach, I was focused on helping a great woman who was starting her path as a Product Owner. She had the business knowledge and a lot of [...]
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Category: Product Ownership
Definition of Ready as an Anti-pattern
Mike Cohn in a recent newsletter entitled: The Dangers of Definition of Ready made some solid points that have had me “thinking” ever since I read it. You see, I’ve been a [...]
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An Alternative Way to Assign User Story Poi [...]
One of the hardest concepts for some teams to understand, especially when they first start using user stories, is that of story points. “What is a point?” they [...]
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Revisiting the Agile Notion of Value
In the Agile Product space there are a few figures who are leading the way. Jeff Patton – leads the way from an innovation and creativity perspective. Jeff’s storymapping [...]
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Chartering, Lift-off, Setting the Stage, From [...]
One of my favorite, old-time rock groups is Emmerson Lake and Palmer. And their song From the Beginning seemed appropriate for this article. One of my new favorite voices in our [...]
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Innovation: “Management” vs. “Team” Res [...]
I just read a truly interesting HBR article that focused on the role of management vs. team members themselves in fostering an environment of creativity and innovation. Most of [...]
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Everyone wants to be a Product Owner until [...]
They realize that… They have to sometimes say NO to some stakeholders; They have to make decisions; short term vs. long term; tactical vs. strategic; now vs. later; They [...]
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Product Owners - Stop Bullying Your Teams
I was in a Backlog Refinement meeting the other day and you would have thought I was in divorce court where the parties were negotiating (fighting for) everything. Each time the [...]
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Addendum – An Agile UX Story
In my previous post I shared about experience I’ve had in “connecting” UX activity into Scrum development teams. I tried to explain a pattern of collaborative partnering [...]
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How should UX work in Agile?
Matt Kortering of Universal Mind, wrote a blog post about How UX Fits Within a SAFe Environment. Lately I’ve been thinking about and writing about the scaling models [...]
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