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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 – How to prevent the Product Owner from trying to micro-manage the team




This is a topic that one would not expect to see happening on a regular basis. After all, in Scrum, the role definition is fairly clear – there is a Scrum team that is self-organizing and much empowered, there is a Product Owner who owns the feature definition, and feature prioritization, and then there is [...]



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




In this series of posts, I have been talking about how to improve the Velocity of the team (refer to the previous article); in this post, I will continue on the same subject and present more issues that impact the ability of the team to increase their velocity. In this post, I will talk about [...]



Planning to ensure that the Sprint Planning meetings work well as a part of the Scrum process – Part 2




In the previous post (Sprint Planning Meeting – Part 1), I talked about some of the points that people need to take care of during the Sprint Planning, including some of the responsibilities of the Product Owner, calculation of the total available capacity of the team for the Sprint, and then breaking down the user [...]