Prioritizing

Teams often struggle to persuade their product owners to prioritize refactoring. This simple …

Product owners often sacrifice progress toward important goals to put out short-term fires. There’s …

Prioritizing bug fixes has always been a challenge in software development. Even though there are …

A lot of agile literature stresses that product owners must prioritize the delivery of value. I’m …

A product owner hands 10 story cards to the team. The team reads them and hands the fifth and sixth …

In last month’s newsletter I wrote about how we make personal financial decisions in a now vs. …

I think I’d like to buy a big-screen plasma television. And maybe after that, a new amplifier for …

I've been playing a fair amount of Go lately. If you're not familiar with Go, it's a strategy game …

Just because a shorter schedule is more important most of the time, does not mean it is more …

Participants in my Certified ScrumMaster courses are often surprised when I recommend that …

Humans are natural hoarders and that’s why we often find ourselves in Backlog bedlam!

I worked with a team last week that had three business people who each established the team's …

You know that before the development team writes their first line of code, they need a funded …

Building the right product at the right time is just as important as building a quality product. …

The biggest risk to most projects is building the wrong product. Regardless of how fast your agile …

Product owners are typically asked to prioritize based on the nebulous term “business value.” But …

Story points on an agile product backlog represent the effort to implement the backlog item.

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When a team plans a sprint they make a commitment to complete the user stories they select from the …

An academic paper that describes the importance of using more than just the vaguely defined …

An experience report presented at XP2006 covering why it is not as simple as telling product owners …

Are you shirking your decision-making responsibility? It happens more often than you think, and …