There are many traditional times you can engage users – gathering requirements and user acceptance testing. What are the best times to engage users when you’re in an agile team?
Teams love to get credit for their efforts, but is that what you should do if a User Story gets 1/2 way there but doesn’t get to Done in the Sprint? What should you really do with the remainder of the work?
Sprint Planning is one of Scrum’s five events. There’s more to it than just making a plan. Importantly, as an action of empiricism, the team should be inspecting the Product Backlog and adapting, and creating, a Sprint Backlog that makes their plan to achieve the Sprint Goal, and deliver a potentially releasable Increment, transparent.
What does a PMO look like in a scaled agile, product focussed environment? ZXM helped W.A. Police with this tricky part of their agile transformation.
What does a Product Owner do? Is it a full time job? Are they the customer? Are they the business owner of the IT system? While it’s been nearly 20 years since the role of “Product Owner” emerged from Scrum few people still understand what a “Product Owner” is and does.
What’s an easy way to run a Backlog Refinement session so that assumptions, risks, ideas and draft designs are identified? Yin and Yang is one of our favourite patterns.
ZXM had been working on a project with a client using Scrum to help them set up an Intranet redevelopment
Many programs, projects and enterprises are starting to consider transforming to agile ways of working. Some start with just stand-ups.
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