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What can Product Owners do to prepare better for planning?
Having prepared Product Owners can make a big difference to planning sessions. Here are our top ten tips for preparation.
Should You Estimate Your Feature Backlog?
When you take your car to a garage you want to know when it will be fixed don’t you? Well not always, let’s explore a different way of looking at it.
Are You Too Focused on Outcomes?
I’ve been doing a lot of work recently with teams trying to get them to focus more on outcomes rather than output. This is a… Read More »Are You Too Focused on Outcomes?
The ScrumMaster Skeleton
Last week (9 – 11 February 2015 we attended the Scrum Coach Retreat in South Africa. Sam found herself in a group that was focussed… Read More »The ScrumMaster Skeleton
Being Proactive vs Reactive
Most great leaders are calm and take things in their stride. Rarely are they seen running around like headless chickens. Yet, most managers seem to… Read More »Being Proactive vs Reactive
Planning Forward – What to do when a team member is away
Here is a technique to handle what to do when an important member of your team is away for a long time. Generally you know… Read More »Planning Forward – What to do when a team member is away
Coaching product owners effectively
This post is about a talk Karen and I did at Agile2014. Do you have Product Owners or work with them? This talk is aimed… Read More »Coaching product owners effectively
A handy guide for coaching Product Owners
We often coach Product Owners. One of the things we’ve come to realise over time is that 2 day theoretical courses out of the office… Read More »A handy guide for coaching Product Owners
The Freeway Analogy
Do you know what the capacity of your software development teams are? And how does work flow into these teams?