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The Product Owner as the liasion between the Product Management and the Engineering team




The role of the Product Owner is one of the most complex roles in the concept of Scrum. As opposed to the earlier role of the Product Management in a waterfall (or non-Scrum and non-Agile) who would deliver the requirements and provide inputs to the team once in a while, the amount of interfacing with [...]



How does the Scrum team decrease the difference between Capacity and Velocity (contd..) ?




I have been writing a series of posts that talk about what a team can do to improve its efficiency, and as a result, improve its velocity (refer previous post). In this post, I will continue with this topic, and provide some more commentary on how to improve the Velocity of a Scrum team. For [...]



How does the Scrum team decrease the difference between Capacity and Velocity (contd..) ?




I have been covering a series of posts on the topic of how to improve the Velocity of the Scrum team (how to improve the Velocity of the Scrum team). In this post, I will continue on the same line and mention some more points that can help in increasing the effectiveness of the Scrum [...]



Engineering Practices Not Taken Care of by Scrum – Some details




Scrum never talks about engineering practices which is a good thing but this sometimes lands teams into trouble. The teams not only adopt the Scrum practices but also the principles which makes their progress sluggish and results in the code base being in a mess. This is a situation which is present in most of [...]