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The compromise between having a Product Owner who tries to detail out too much ..




Scrum suffers from problems where you have a Product Owner role that needs to have a person who has understood the role in good detail. In a lot of cases, just transitioning the role from that of a regular Product Management role to that of a Product Owner role takes some amount of getting used [...]

October 17th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Approval, Product Backlog, Product Management, Product Owner, Scrum, Scrum team, UI, Usability, User, User Design, User Stories | Leave a comment


Scrum failure – trying to get a Business Analyst to play the role of a Product Owner




One of the biggest problems in trying to do Scrum projects is when an existing team is sought to be converted to using Scrum methodology. Consider the case where the team has a Project Manager to run the project, and Business Analysts to convert the requirements into specific documentation that the developer team can use. [...]

June 19th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Challenge, Issues, Performance, Product Management, Product Owner, Project Manager, Relationships, Responsibility, Role, Scrum, Scrum Problems | Leave a comment


Scrum – What can happen when your Product Owner is a big picture guy and really does not get into details




If your Scrum team is in such a situation, you are in fairly big trouble. We had a case come to us from another organization where the Scrum team was in deep trouble and was starting to raise a number of issues – over their first few Sprints, it was found that the team was [...]

April 15th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Product, Product Backlog, Product Management, Product Owner, Requirements, Scrum, ScrumMaster, Tasks, User Design | Leave a comment


Scrum – What are some of the important attributes of a successful Product Owner




When teams (or organizations) implement Scrum for the first time (or for the first few times), the changes required for Scrum involve some amount of re-thinking of their roles and responsibilities from the various stakeholders. Training can be conducted, but training can only do so much. Training can be an important pre-requisite for success, but [...]

April 7th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Product, Product Backlog, Product Management, Product Owner, Requirements, Scrum, Team, User Stories | Leave a comment


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