The Product Owner’s main responsibility is to maintain the Product Backlog through direct communication with the users and stakeholders. To do this well it will take most of the Product […]
Scrum Rules: Your Product Owner Decides if the Product Increment is Released
The Product Owner has the sole authority on putting the work of the Scrum Team at the end of a Sprint into the hands of users. This means that at […]
Scrum Rules: Your Product Owner Is Truthful About the Condition of the Product
The Product Owner has the most recent and important information about the value and cost of the product being delivered. This information can greatly serve the team by allowing them […]
Scrum Rules: Your Scrum Master Helps the Team Expand the Definition of “Done”
Delivery of potentially “shippable” product increments each Sprint is at the heart of a true Scrum implementation. In order to help the team properly implement Scrum and derive the intended […]
Scrum Rules: As a Team Member I Work With the Team to Expand the Definition of ‘Done’
The Definition of ‘Done’ for a Scrum Team makes transparent how close the team’s work is coming to being shippable at the end of every Sprint. Expanding the Definition of […]
Scrum Rules: Each Sprint Results in a Potentially Releasable Product Increment
The phrase “potentially releasable” has a very simple meaning: the features built in a Sprint and all the related activities are done to such a degree that ONLY business considerations […]
Promise Less for Better Sprints
We all do it from time to time: over-commit and under-deliver in sprints. In our work as Agile coaches, we at BERTEIG often encounter teams that are not able to […]
Definition of Done 101
The Dictionary Definition of Done Scrum does not tell us the exact Definition of Done… rather, it gives us some principles to work from. Consider: where does the definition of […]