Using Risk to Prioritize Your Product Back [...]
When teaching Product Owner workshops, I talk about the need to get a prioritized product backlog. For some students, this is easy but many people struggle. They’re used [...]
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Category: Agile Practices
A New (Old) Look at Backlog Refinement
I recently heard someone say “I think backlog grooming1 and sprint planning are the same thing”. I can see exactly why someone might think that. So I thought we [...]
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Backlog Refinement...Are you doing it “Right� [...]
Learn more about Velocity Partners offshore software development company Jason Tanner is a colleague of mine here in the Cary, NC area. He’s a Certified Scrum [...]
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Lean vs. Robust Backlog
I recently received the following email from Dwight Kingdon at Mindtree: I’d appreciate your thoughts on “Just in time” Product Backlogs. I’ve recently run across a [...]
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Even the BEST, can be Wrong
I’ve been a Mike Cohn groupie for as long as I can remember. Mike has written, what I consider to be, three of the seminal books on agile approaches for software development. [...]
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Replacing Backlog Grooming?
Derek Heuther, in a blog post on the LeadingAgile blog, took the position of replacing traditional Backlog Grooming with something else. The blog post can be read here. There [...]
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Grooming, Maintaining, or Refining your Backlog [...]
In 2009 I wrote the first edition of Scrum Product Ownership as a way of helping Product Owners understand their roles and responsibilities better. Before that, it was mostly an [...]
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Grooming, Maintaining, or Refining your Backlog [...]
Learn more about Velocity Partners offshore software development company In 2009 I wrote the first edition of Scrum Product Ownership as a way of helping Product Owners [...]
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Anchoring your Product Backlogs -- Not All User [...]
Learn more about Velocity Partners offshore software development company Continuing from our last post, I want to discuss some of the advantages of taking this “an [...]
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Anchoring your Product Backlogs -- Not All User [...]
If you don’t know, I’ve got some opinions about Scrum, the Product Owner role, Backlogs, and User Stories. I’ve written a book about Product Ownership and I spend a great [...]
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