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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 [...]



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. [...]



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 [...]



Scrum – When the Product Owner finds it difficult to attend the meetings (Sprint Planning, Retrospective, Demo, and Daily Scrum) (contd..)




In the previous post, I had written about the Product Owner, and the meetings that are expected for this role (Product Owner and Scrum Meetings – Part 1). We talked about the Sprint Planning Meeting, the Sprint Retrospective, and the Sprint Demo; it seems quite clear that you need the Product Owner to attend these [...]