A Team of Product Owners
The Product Owner is a very important role in Scrum. He has the key responsibility to create, manage and prioritize the product development backlog. Can this responsibility always be to a unique person...
View ArticleCooperation & Collaboration in Scrum
The first value of the Agile Manifesto is ” Individuals and interactions over processes and tools”. Its third value is “Customer collaboration over contract negotiation”. In his book “Agile Analytics”,...
View ArticleMoving Scrum Beyond the Team to Create the Agile Organization
This talk will show how you can re-shape Scrum to its core values and basic framework, to make it understandable and interesting for non-IT people and how to take Scrum beyond the IT departments.
View ArticleWhat Do You Know About Your Team?
Do you know situations where the team spirit and/or quality of results were decreasing? This might have been complex situations and maybe it took a lot of time to fix it. But did it change on a long...
View ArticleCoaching Teams Through Change
When you come to a Scrum or Agile conference, you pick up new ideas that you’d like to try when you get back to work. However, you may feel like you hit a brick wall when it comes persuading your team...
View ArticleThe ScrumMaster as a Team Coach
In a typical Scrum project, the ScrumMaster might have to fill many different roles simultaneously. He can be a technical expert, an evangelist, a mentor and a coach.
View ArticleFun Retrospectives
If you are following an Agile approach to project management like Scrum, you should have adopted a continuous improvement practice. Retrospectives are the name of the meeting when the Scrum team makes...
View ArticleAgile Product Management
Product Management practices remains a skill difficult to pin down in its scope and responsibility. This article discusses how Product Management can exist within an Agile-oriented organization. It...
View ArticlePatterns: a New Standard for Scrum
Using the same approach used to derive the original organizational patterns back when it all started, teams can assess themselves and their Scrum practice. Patterns provide concrete foundations that...
View ArticleGetting the Best out of Scrum
The best known project management framework with an Agile approach is Scrum. For something that is relatively simple to understand there is a lot of hype surrounding it. But why?
View ArticleEvaluating the ROI of Scrum
As Scrum is the most popular framework adopted by organization adopting an Agile approach for project management, many companies are trying to find financial facts that justify its adoption. This...
View ArticleAre Prejudices Stopping your Agile Efforts?
Adopting new software development approaches like Agile and Scrum is always a challenge. There is a natural tendency for part of an organization to resist changing and some prejudices exist against...
View ArticleWhy Are Whole Scrum Teams Hard to Create?
One of the technical practices of Agile software development is to support cross-functional teams where members perform multiple activities like requirements, coding and testing. In their book “Being...
View ArticleApplying the Agile Manifesto to Mobile Testing
If we often associate Agile mainly with project management, the principles of the Agile Manifesto can also be applied to other software development activities. In this article, Nadya Knysh explains how...
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