Category: Product Owner

  • Daily Collaboration: Bridging Business and Development

    Daily Collaboration: Bridging Business and Development

    The fourth principle of the Agile Manifesto emphasizes the necessity of daily collaboration between business people and developers throughout a project. This approach fosters better understanding, reduces misunderstandings, and enhances trust, ultimately leading to products that meet customer needs. Such partnerships enable continuous improvement and innovation, avoiding the pitfalls of isolated workflows.

  • On Certifications

    Are certifications worth the time, effort, and money?

  • Managers CAN Help Self-Managed Teams!

    One of the tenets of agile is forming self-organizing teams.  This brings autonomy and ownership to the teams that helps promote the agile value that favors individuals and interactions over processes and tools.  If the very definition of a self-managing team is a self-organized, semi-autonomous small group of employees whose members determine, plan, and manage…

  • Backlog Grooming

    I was going over some backlog grooming ideas with one of our Product Owners recently, so I thought I’d share these ideas with everyone.   When preparing for sprint planning sessions, please take a moment to make sure the top 20 stories in your project backlog are “shovel ready”.  What do I mean by this?  Shovel…