The Product Owner role in Scrum is a well-defined description of how a single person who represents the business interacts with a Scrum team to get software or products implemented that the business wants or needs. This is in no way a complete description of what the business has to do to reach that point, nor is it intended to be. But too many Scrum teams think that the description of Product Owner is a complete description of the business role and do not recognize why the person they think should be in the role is seldom the right person. So what does the business do? First, we have to identify what the business means. In this context the business is how the company makes money. It can be for example a product, product family, business line, or service unit. Sometimes the business is an internal unit of the company, such as accounting, that supplies necessary services to the corporation. Someone is responsible for that business, typically someone who is reporting directly
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Month: September 2015
Product Owner Role – What Scrum Leaves Out
The Product Owner role in Scrum is a well-defined description of how a single person who represents the business interacts with a Scrum team to get software or products implemented that the business wants or needs.
This is in no way a complete des…
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Last 100 days of 2015
What are you doing for the rest of 2015? This article has some ideas for you: http://www.realizeyourbusiness.com/wordpress/index.php/archive/last-100-days-of-2015/
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Last 100 days of 2015
It is the last 100 days of 2015. September 23 – December 31 is 100 days.
How are you doing compared to your goals for 2015? Are you on track? Have you forgotten what your goals were?
No matter where you are, today is a good time to commit to wh…
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Are You Guilty of this Productivity Killer?
I hope this one will surprise you: Working Completely Alone is a big productivity killer.
Really? Really.
I am seeing this over and over across industries from companies large to small. Two people working side by side (even virtually) on the s…
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The importance to the company founder of a strong vision
I was on Blab.im with Tom Meloche today, founder of a number of small businesses, about what he thinks is important for someone thinking of founding a business to know. Replay is here
In particular, in the second 1/2 hour we talked about the imp…
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2 Great Tips for Company Founders
I just had a lovely conversation on Blab.im with Jeff Dalton, founder of Broadsword Solutions. Jeff’s company advises companies on better ways to run software development. We had a great conversation about Agile, CMMI, and leadership.
But what rea…
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