‘Three Track’ Lean-Agile Development: Part 2 – Opportunity Space
Introduction In the part-1 of my article (Why do we need a ‘Three Track’ Lean-Agile Product Development?), I had introduced the idea of how the product creation process is all about transformation of Ideas into Value. Success can come only after value gets created and realized through the product. The product success can be measured […]
CHOW 260: PO overpowering SM
Murugan joined an organization as a Scrum master. One of the teams that he was asked to coach has been in running mode at a fast pace for 2 months already. The team has been doing basic agile practices such as having a time-boxed work commitment, daily standup, and demo to the Product owner and […]
CHOW #235 – Relentless focus on new functionality
Sam is a strong product owner with clear focus on customer priorities. He interacts with customer and user groups regularly and is committed to adding value to them. He drives the priorities for three different scrum teams and demands high standards from the teams in terms of output and quality. He often finds that teams […]
Chow #217 – How to handle conflict at workplace?
CyberZars is a leading software product development company in the Cyber Security domain. CyberZars practices Scrum/Xp for software development. One of their flagship product OpenConnect is developed by four scrum teams. Chris is a Product Owner (PO) for one of the scrum teams. He gets into regular conflicts with Rick, the PO of the 2nd […]
3P + 2S Method for Ordering the Backlog
When it comes to higher levels of planning like road-mapping or release planning, product management has the responsibility to determine the order of work items for delivery teams. In my opinion, product owner is one of toughest roles in the agile world. Product management teams have always had to deal with market dynamics and customer […]
CHOW #142 – Facilitator Role by the Product Owner?
Rhea is in a big predicament right now. She is a scrum master for a team that’s focused on maintaining and rewriting a middle ware for the trade processing engine. The team is able to keep things honest on the challenges and they continue to adapt to situations. Her challenge is that the Product Owner […]
CHOW #88 – The Case of the PO-ed PO!
Peter Cohn is the Product Owner(PO) for the maintenance and enhancement of a CRM platform in a large product development organization. The CRM platform is an industry leader unifying case management, business process management, robotics and AI-based decision making. Peter is located in New York City (NYC) working with the company’s product management locally and […]
The Story Teller
A backlog must resemble a good folktale- that people will talk about after they have listened to it, allowing freedom to interpret and be able to be told in multiple variations without changing the outcome. Product Owners play a direct role in creating backlogs that teams can own and understand the problem that they are […]
Agility in Mainframe technology based products
In one of the recent conversations I had with an Agile practitioner, he was talking to me about his experiences of Agile practices in Mainframe teams. He mentioned that they were following a 2-month long sprint cycle and within every sprint, they were developing and delivering valuable content. One of the key questions that came […]
Help a Business Analyst Pivot
Divya is a business analyst – working with clients, understanding requirements and ensuring that is understood by the team when they build. She has eight years experience and has been working in teams that you manage for the past couple of years. She has reached out to you, and as part of the conversation you […]
