Learn about Scrum – Why does Scrum fail – The sponsors worried about the lack of a schedule of features in the overall project, this worry extending to the end of the project: Part 2
Filed Under Challenge, Estimation, Features, Issues, Problems, Product, Product Backlog, Product Management, Product Owner, Scrum | Posted on July 5, 2010
In the first post of the article, I wrote about how senior executives need to see the list of features before approving the product development (the list of features is reviewed in terms of competitor analysis, projections of the direction where the product should be heading towards, and also whether these are features that customers [...]
Learn about Scrum – Why does Scrum fail – The sponsors worried about the lack of a schedule of features in the overall project, this worry extending to the end of the project: Part 1
Filed Under Challenge, Estimation, Features, Problems, Product Backlog, Product Management, Product Owner, Review, Schedule, Scrum | Posted on July 4, 2010
In the previous post (Problems in letting the team be self-empowered), I talked about how it was difficult for managers to transition to a role more akin to a coach rather than being the traditional decision-making, hard task driving individual who is responsible for driving their teams. In a number of cases, the managers are [...]
Scrum challenges – Handling cases where the same team has to work on feature development and also support of previous versions and fixing bugs – Part 4
Filed Under Estimation, Issues, Problems, Product Owner, Scrum | Posted on May 28, 2010
This series on support of production issues and Scrum keeps on going on. At the end of the last such post, I ran into some issues buzzing in my head from what I wrote, and then a couple of colleagues talked about some exceptions that they had to make for production support, and as we [...]
How to ensure that Scrum Backlog Management is ensured, to ensure that the team is on the path of success (contd..) – Part 2
Filed Under Estimation, Features, Product Backlog, Product Owner, Scrum | Posted on April 15, 2010
In the previous post (Project Backlog Management), I talked about some of the problems that Scrum teams face in terms of Backlog Management, when they find that their Backlog does not seem to be coming down over a period of time, or when their demos at Sprint end do not seem to provide satisfaction that [...]
