Who’s responsible for maximizing the value of the software product you’re working on? Who’s responsible for the work of the software development team? The CEO? Head of Engineering? PMO? Software Development Manager? In Scrum, the responsibility lies with the Product Owner. In this article, I’ll detail all those things that a Professional Product Owner does and hope to convince you just how important they are to a successful Scrum implementation.
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How Big is Your Story Point?
How big is your Story Point? No, I don’t mean in hours, we all know that a Story Point to Hours comparison is impossible. I mean, when you estimate how long a User Story might take, how do you decide on the number of Story Points? What’s your yardstick?
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Dealing with unfinished User Stories at the end of a Sprint
You get to the end of a sprint and find that you still have user stories that were not completed. Why does this happen? How should you deal with it? And how do you prevent it from happening again? This article addresses all of these questions.
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Can Distributed Scrum Work?
In my daily work as a consultant Agile Coach / Scrum Master and also a Scrum Trainer, I regularly get asked this one question: Can Distributed Scrum really work? Recently, I had the great pleasure to discuss this same topic with a group of highly respected Agile Coaches and Scrum Masters and the outcome of that discussion might just surprise you!
Implementing Scrum
I love a good analogy and on the way to work today I was struck by the similarities between my journey and the route to a successful Scrum implementation. As I thought more, I realized that there’s one skill you need more than any other to implement Scrum. Not only that, it’s a skill listed as one of the Five Principles of Scrum. Can you guess what it is yet?