There are many benefits to having staff focus on a single product development effort, but there can also be some challenges. By educating managers and staff on the benefits of […]
Scrum Rules: The Product Owner Role
Product development requires problem-solving, innovation and creativity. But more than that, it requires problems, opportunities and a vision of the future. The Product Owner recognizes, gathers, organizes and presents these […]
Scrum Rules: As a Team Member I Can Quickly Describe My Product’s High-Level Architecture
All Scrum Team Members, including the Scrum Master and Product Owner, should understand the high-level technical aspects of the product that is being built (often described as the architecture of […]
Scrum Rules: As a Team Member I Can Quickly Describe My Product’s High-Level Purpose
All Scrum Team Members, including the Scrum Master and Product Owner, should understand the high-level business aspects of the product that is being built. As well, that understanding should be […]
Scrum Rules: As a Team Member I Use Scrum as a Tool for Product Development
Scrum is an Agile process framework that is optimized for product development. The rules of Scrum are fine-tuned after decades of use to help product development teams become hyper-productive and […]
Scrum is NOT for Project Management
Once Again for Emphasis: Scrum is NOT a Project Management Framework Scrum is for complex product development, enhancement or maintenance, not project management. The authors of the Scrum framework assert […]
Value-Added Work: Basic Lean Concepts
As consultants, one of our first assessment tasks involves discovering the amount of value added work in a client’s organization vs. non-value-added work. In assessing a process, it is important […]