The Product Owner on my team is also a developer on the team. Do you have any advice on using Scrum in such a scenario? SHORT ANSWER: Yeah - stop doing it! LONG ANSWER: In a healthy Scrum Team, each person fills only one Scrum role at a time. Having someone ...
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Ever wonder why some Agile practitioners regularly butt heads with more traditionally minded managers? Have you ever spent significant one-on-one time with a Product Owner (or a Team member or a Stakeholder) to answer all their questions about why and how Scrum works and they still just do not "get it?" Have ...
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Analyzing past results to drive future successes may be the most important goal for today’s product leaders. You know the worst thing that can happen with a new product? You get some customers. Not none. Not a lot. Just a few. And now you have a bad idea that must ...
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One of the things I admired about Extreme Programming (XP) was the simplicity of the roles defined in the Green Book. In XP, there are only two roles: Customer and Programmer. When you are using XP, the Customer makes business decisions, Programmers make technical decisions and one role may not substitute ...
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