When did you know that Scrum was an effective answer to complexity? Let’s start by describing the difference between complicated and complex environments. It’s so important to know the difference between the two that I always start an Agile consulting or Agile coaching engagement by asking my clients whether they...
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When did you know that Agile was a great answer to complex engineering?
When did you know that Agile was a great answer to complex engineering? As I’ve spoken about before, my journey to agile started with a quest for excellence in the software development space and evolved through a series of agile experiences and agile frameworks before I found my home in...
In Scrum, what is the Increment?
We have a Product Owner, a Product Goal, and a Product Backlog in Scrum. Why don’t we have a Product but an Increment? The answer is both historical and essential. Scrum started as an iterative and incremental approach for software product development. OOPSLA 1995 Scrum Paper: SCRUM is an enhancement of...
Product Owners, You do NOT Accept the Work in the Sprint Review
In 2001 Ron Jeffries coined the 3Cs acronym[1]. 22 years later it is still more then current and relevant, especially in a Scrum context, even though it originated originally in eXtreme Programming. Card, Conversation, Confirmation Card The card can be either a physical card or a ticket in an electronic...
Agile Done Right eliminates the need for classical Requirements engineering.
Requirements engineering is the process of eliciting stakeholder needs and desires and developing them into an agreed-upon set of detailed requirements that can serve as a basis for all subsequent development activities. The purpose of requirements engineering methodologies is to make the problem that is being stated clear and complete,...
Scrumday Germany – Product Management at Scale – The 5Ts
Title: Product Management at Scale - The 5Ts Year: 2022 Location: Stuttgart Abstract: With all the different scaling options that exist today, it may seem like there is very little agreement on how to scale the Product Owner role. Ralph, (and Don not at the conferee though) authors of the...
Using Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) in Scrum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEMBYXbLFq4 Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) act as goal-setting framework for defining and tracking objectives and their outcomes. OKRs are often misunderstood and are a powerful practice to create razor sharp organisational focus. Isn’t Scrum about goals and focus as well? There is the Vision, the Product Goal, the Sprint...
Deciphering Goals
Grand ideas, visions are everywhere. Governments, businesses and NGOs have aspirational goals. However, the larger the goal, the higher the chance that the original intention gets lost while being passed through the structural layers of the organization. Risks, politics, personal agendas often subvert the original goal either by design or...
AgileByExample 2020 – Product Owner Demystified
Keynote—Product Owner Demystified Vision, Value, Validation - The 3Vs There is a vacuum between the company vision and the final outcome, causing late validation and low value. This vacuum is present in pretty much all companies, caused by a wrong and ill conceived product delivery approach. This vacuum is filled...
Scrumday Deutschland 2019, The Product Management Vacuum and the 3 V’s
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