The Product Owner represents the voice of the customer. They ensure that the Scrum Team works with the right things from a business perspective.  In trying to come up with a perfect definition of the Product Owner, I went on and looked for certain areas that might help with it…

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Project retrospectives help teams examine what went right and what went wrong on a project. But traditionally, retrospectives (also known as “post-mortems”) are only performed at the end of the project — too late to help. In organizations where teams develop using iterative, incremental methods,

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In the Pecha Kucha style: Some of the things that were key to my success as a plan-driven project manager are exactly the things that spell doom for an Agile team — or, at least, a high-performing Agile team. And, some of the things Agile teams need seem completely counter to what I learned as […]

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