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Discord between the Scrum team and the Product Owner on the feature list priority




This particular post is more of an opinion rather than a stated part of the process (as far as the discussion that I have had with several Scrum Masters has led me to believe). The Scrum process outlines a role for the Product Owner to define the features of the product, and also to determine [...]

October 16th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Approval, Challenge, Prioritization, Problems, Product, Product Backlog, Product Owner, Requirements, Responsibility, Role, Scrum, Scrum team | Leave a comment


Problem in Scrum: Looking at technical debt, which will cause more problems as you move ahead ..




What is technical debt ? Well, I will not try and give a definition for technical debt. Instead, consider that you have 2 approaches to build some great new features. You can do something in a quick way without trying to build a great design, or you can build it the proper way through the [...]

October 4th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: Architecture, Benefits, Design, Prioritization, Scrum | Leave a comment


Scrum – What are some of the important attributes of a successful Product Owner (contd..)




In the previous post on this topic (attributes of a successful Product Owner), I tried to list some down some of the properties that a successful Scrum Product Owner should have. In this post, I will continue on this line and try to put down some more properties that a Scrum Product Owner should have. [...]

April 12th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Prioritization, Product, Product Backlog, Product Owner, Requirements, Scrum, Scrum Velocity, ScrumMaster | Leave a comment


Scrum problem – Making sure that the Product Owner is empowered to take decisions, especially the tough ones




In a typical organizational structure of a product development organization, the Product Manager has a fairly powerful role. It is the Product Manager who looks at the features that are to make it into the Product. This is done based on various factors such as competitor analysis, various interactions with customers and industry experts, analysis [...]

March 22nd, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Prioritization, Problems, Product, Product Management, Product Owner, Role, Scrum, Software | One comment


 
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