In a recent Certified Scrum Product Owner course, we presented the following slide that contrasted Acceptance Criteria to a team’s Definition of Done: I saw one of our students light up.  I knew that her “light bulb” had gone off.   As many others who have seen this slide in the past, I would have expected [...]

Weak product owners are a persistent problem in Agile development teams. Agile teams are like a Ferrari engine waiting for a capable driver to take advantage of all it has to offer.

There are two sides of a software project that are critical for success: the tactical side (the how) and the strategic side (the what). Trading one for the other may result in short-term gains, but will cost your project in the long run.

After a day-long sprint planning session, another exhausting sprint ensued. By the time this mini-death march completed, we were “rewarded” with another day-long sprint planning session. By the third sprint, the product owner got mad because we missed our sprint goals again.