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Having a decisive Product Manager for the project, and what if this does not happen ..




In many cases, especially for small projects / new teams, the Product Manager is typically somebody who is also not very experienced. The idea is that the Product Managers who are highly skilled or with a lot of relevant experience are assigned to the teams that are doing more important work. But this can sometimes [...]



Do Scrum of Scrums meetings add value to the project – Part 1




One of the most confusing meetings for new entrants to Scrum is the Scrum of Scrums meeting. For a lot of people, there is no clear understanding about why this meeting is held, who are the participants, frequency, agenda, etc. I have been through a couple of trainings and those did not really cover the [...]



Distributed Scrum: Mistake to have only the Product Owner in a separate location




Given the bad economy and the relentless surge to reduce costs, there is a lot more focus to see how all the costs involved in a software project can be reduced. Over the past couple of decades, a model where the development work moves to lower cost countries such as Romania, India, China, Philippines, etc [...]



Working with remote teams, and some of the issues that come with this distance ..




Outsourcing is a major factor in all software projects. When your projects are under stress to be competitive (and when you see your competitors sending work to many locations such as China, Philippines, India, Romania, etc and reducing your costs), the pressure to also outsource your work can be fairly significant. This is true whether [...]