Estimation, planning, teams and money, some data

When I deliver Agile training for teams I run an exercise called “The Extended XP Game”. It is based on the old…

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The Product Owner refactored: the SPO/TPO model

Surprisingly I’ve never blogged about the Strategic Product Owner / Tactical Product Owner model, this is surprising because it is…

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The Product Owner is dead, long live the Product Owner!

For years I have been using this picture to describe the Product Owner role. For years I have been saying:…

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What Product Owners should not do

Last time I set out some of the things a Product Owner should be doing – or at least considering doing. Even…

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Busy busy busy: What Product Owners do

If you hadn’t noticed I’m building a blog mini-series on the Product Owner role. Its a role I’ve long felt…

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Product Owner or Backlog Administrator?

In the official guides all Product Owners are equal. One size fits all. In the world I live in some…

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Product Owners need 4 things

To be an effective Product Owner – and that includes product managers and business analysts who are nominating work for…

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Minimally Viable Team in a nutshell

Last week I was in Holland helping a client with their agile adoption and digital transformation. When the subject of…

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When does a Start-Up need Agile?

I started writing another piece on more economic and agile/software development but it got to long, so right now, an aside… Back…

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