Coaches, Managers, Collaboration and Agile, Part 2

In Coaches, Managers, Collaboration and Agile, Part 1, I wrote about circumstances under which a team might want a coach. It…

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Coaches, Managers, Collaboration and Agile, Part 1

There was a fascinating Twitter conversation last week when I was busy writing other things. (I also find Twitter to…

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How the Agile Project Manager and Product Owner Roles Intersect, Part 3

In What Agile Project Managers Do, Part 1, I described what facilitative agile project managers do. In What Agile Project Managers…

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What Agile Project Managers Do Not Do, Part 2

In What Agile Project Managers Do, Part 1, I spoke about what agile project managers might do. Here’s what agile…

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What Agile Project Managers Do, Part 1

One of the questions I hear all the time with people transitioning to using agile is this: How do we…

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Three Tips for Sizing Defect Fixes

As I’m teaching my Practical Product Owner workshop, some POs are having trouble understanding how big a defect is. Sure,…

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Making Release Frictionless, a Business Decision, Part 2

In Part 1, I talked about small stories/chunks of work, checking in all the time so you could build often and…

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Making Release Frictionless, a Business Decision, Part 1

Would you like to release your product at any time? I like it when releases are a business decision, not…

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Product Owners and Learning, Part 5

When I think of POs and the team, I think of learning in several loops: The PO learns when the…

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