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On The Three-Headed Product Owner

Maybe the fact that most Scrum Masters are somewhat technical has left a bit of a knowledge hole that needs to be filled. As with the scrum team, I beluieve that the "business team" headed by the product owner needs to be engaged and working colla...

On Two Tips to Help Product Owners with Release Planning

I find that the team I have is working very well with estimation, providing a balance of Business Value and Technical stories in order to minimize the problem of Technical Debt. Release planning is another thing altogether, and we are trying to t...

On Agile and CMMI: Better Together

In an interesting observation, Agile processes seem to be more effective when the organization is coming from a more structured past into Agile than when an undisciplined approach tries to use Agile to firm it's processes. On the first scenario, t...

On The Blue Peter Problem

Has anyone heard of or used a sftware tracking tool called TargetProcess? It has benefits and challenges, but I find that going to the basics is still the best communication option.

On Daily Standup Withdrawal in Scrum Teams

I just attended a meeting in Ft. Worth where Ken Schwaber was presenting his "Scrum but" presentation, and he made a very eye opening comment. The purpose of the standup is for the team to communicate with each other so that they can help one anot...

On Can Scrum Support Six Sigma?

I like your article a lot - but it brings to mind one very simple issue: TRANSPARENCY. In most of my exposure to clients with heavy process and tracking systems, usually exemplified with the necessity for Executive involvement, transparency and...

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