A Note on the Term “Chief Product Owner” The labels “chief product owner” and “product line owner” are the ones I generally favor, but they are representative only; use others if you wish. In addition to these, I’ve seen both program owner, super product owner, area owner and feature owner used successfully. For consistency with […]
Facebook launches Yarn, a JavaScript package manger built for speed Facebook has launched Yarn, an open source JavaScript package manager that promises faster and more reliable installs than the massively popular npm. The company says its new creation is capable of reducing install times from several minutes to just seconds in some cases – depnding […]
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People who know me well might be surprised to learn I’ve accepted full-time employment. I’m sort of an independent-minded person. So, here’s why. (It’s characteristically long-winded, so skip it if you wish.) Backstory In 2002, I was working as an enterprise architect at a mid-to-large-ish financial services holding company that operated banks, mortgage lenders, investment […]
Scrum Master’s task loads often vary and are dependent on the team and its current dynamics. The 4 major stages of team dynamics and the corresponding relationship of expected performance level can be expressed as the following picture: Figure 1: Team Stages and it’s expected level of performance. via DZone Agile Zone http://ift.tt/2aJpoaJ
Have you ever come across these sayings, well mostly complaints, when it comes to adopting agile? Agile does not care about proper documentation Agile has no regard for processes and regulations Agile has no regard for the companies plan and purpose Agile does not care about the legal processes and clients are not held accountable. […]
I was perplexed in the difference between the velocities of the two Agile (Scrum) teams. When I examined the metrics of two different Scrum teams, I noticed they produced wildly different outputs. The first, let’s call them Team Alpha, produced excellent work. Always completing on time and meeting their targets. The other, Team Beta, was […]
If you’ve learned Scrum and tried to implement it in any large organization you’ve likely run into a few issues. Getting dedicated people on your team is hard. Building cross-functional teams is really hard. Breaking your work down into small problems your customers care to have solved is probably the hardest. I’d like to talk […]
I’m a Detroit guy and I like cars, especially fast cars, and nowadays they have computer chips you can install that make your car go faster. Imagine that, just plug in a chip and press on the accelerator and vroooom! I’m also an agile coach and I see patterns. With most every agile transformation I […]
I see a lot of confusion around velocity in new-to-agile teams. Too many people treat velocity as an acceleration measurement. That is, they expect velocity to increase to some large number, as a stable state. via DZone Agile Zone http://ift.tt/1XSXSIO