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    Category: Product Owner

    Story Splitting Poster Now Available in Portuguese

    Working in small increments of value—good user stories—is the key habit that makes the rest of Agile Software Development work. But people everywhere struggle to…

    Richard Lawrence 2020-02-05
    1 Comments

    Making Info Visible for Better Decisions

    A key part of the ScrumMaster’s or Product Owner’s job is making information visible.* Whether that’s a product backlog, taskboard, cumulative flow diagram, or a…

    Richard Lawrence 2016-11-09
    2 Comments

    Vertical Slices and Scale

    Last week, I tweeted, Working in thin vertical slices is the keystone habit for agile software development. It enables so many other good practices. —…

    Richard Lawrence 2016-06-27
    15 Comments

    Turn The Ship Around – A View Into Agile Leadership

    Note: This post is adapted from some posts that I originally created on Adobe’s blog while I was an employee there. I recently finished reading former…

    Peter Green 2016-01-26
    1 Comments

    80/20 Product Ownership Updates

    A few updates on 80/20 Product Ownership, my online course that teaches you how to slice your work at every level of detail to get…

    Richard Lawrence 2015-08-26
    1 Comments

    Reducing the Load on the Product Owner

    Product Owners have it tough. They need to spend time and energy working to understand the needs of customers and users. They need to work…
    Peter Green 2015-07-18
    3 Comments

    5 Key Skills Great Product Owners Have

    Being Product Owner is hard. Actually, that’s not quite true. Anybody can make a list of things to build, call it a backlog, and bring…

    Richard Lawrence 2015-06-16
    6 Comments

    Splitting Stories in Chinese (or, 用户故事切分招数)

    Thanks to Bob Jiang for the translation (with feedback from Evelyn Tian and Daniel Teng). This poster is also available in English, French, German, Russian,…
    Richard Lawrence 2015-01-09
    0 Comments

    Agile antipattern: Sizing or estimating bug fixes

    Is the bug to the left a large bug or a small bug?  It looks HUGE to me!  Well, in reality it is probably between…

    Bob Hartman 2010-05-05
    10 Comments

    New to agile? Remember a user story is more than a card!

    What’s wrong with the user story on the card?  It seems to have everything we need: a) short title, b) a size (in this case…

    Bob Hartman 2010-05-03
    5 Comments

    Patterns for Splitting User Stories

    Update, October 2020: Richard’s latest story splitting resources are available at Humanizing Work. Good user stories follow Bill Wake’s INVEST model. They’re Independent, Negotiable, Valuable,…

    Richard Lawrence 2009-10-28
    96 Comments

    Agile pondering: Is it agile to have a “single wringable neck?”

    In Scrum one of the named roles is that of Product Owner.  Some people have taken to referring to this position as the “single wringable…

    Bob Hartman 2009-07-23
    2 Comments

    Agile antipattern: Waiting for all the requirements before starting

    Time for a short blog entry (I tend to be way too verbose!). I often see teams trying to make sure they have all of…

    Bob Hartman 2009-07-16
    4 Comments

    How to make a LOT more money using agile

    Yesterday’s blog post dealt with how to manage scope for an agile project.  Today I have to admit it was a bit of a setup. …

    Bob Hartman 2009-05-27
    2 Comments

    New to agile? 3 ways to cut scope (and live)

    The primary way I see teams release products faster is by reducing the scope of each product.  However, this can’t be done in an arbitrary…

    Bob Hartman 2009-05-26
    3 Comments

    New to agile? INVEST in good user stories

    As a <user> I want <function> so that<value>. Above is a very simple user story template.  How can something so simple be so hard to…

    Bob Hartman 2009-05-14
    30 Comments

    New to agile? Do the simplest thing that works – THEN STOP!

    As an agile trainer and coach I often see new teams struggle with a simple question: “How much to do on a user story?”  A lot…

    Bob Hartman 2009-04-27
    0 Comments

    Agile antipattern: Code freezes during each iteration

    Over the past 18 months I’ve encountered a number of teams where it is standard practice to have a code freeze late in the iteration. …

    Bob Hartman 2009-04-23
    7 Comments

    Agile Antipattern: Everything is priority 1

    I was just working on some Powerpoint slides for our Agile Product Management Boot Camp coming up on March 9 and 10 and I realized I should…

    Bob Hartman 2009-02-27
    0 Comments

    When in Doubt Ask “How Will I Know I’ve Done That?”

    Tired of not knowing exactly what to create or test? Get in the habit of asking the magic question “How will I know I’ve done…

    Bob Hartman 2009-02-20
    10 Comments
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