Guest blog: What makes a good Product Owner?
In this guest blog post Emile Bakker, the product/market coach, talks about what makes a good Product Owner. Hint: It's all about coaching!
In this guest blog post Emile Bakker, the product/market coach, talks about what makes a good Product Owner. Hint: It's all about coaching!
Nowadays most agile teams do retrospectives which help them to deal with difficult situations and improve their way of working. But teams don't work in isolation, they interact with other teams and with their stakeholders to deliver value. Let's explore how retrospectives beyond the team level can be used to improve collaboration.
I'm returning to Lithuania to give the Masterclass Improving your Agile and Lean Transformation on May 2 in Vilnius. Ticket sales has started, book your seat at Masterclasses.lt.
In this masterclass you will experience Agile and Lean practices for teams and stakeholders with advice on how to deploy them and integrate them into your existing processes, and tips and tricks to become more agile and lean.
The book The Great ScrumMaster by Zuzana Šochová provides lots of ideas to help Scrum masters deal with everyday situations. Here are 15 quotes from this book to tweet.
My highly popular Agile Self-assessment Game is now also available in French. All 52 cards and the mini instruction cards have been translated by Fabrice Aimetti (instructions are still in English).
The recording of the webinar on keeping retrospectives fresh that I gave on March 8 has been published. You can also download the slides on keeping retrospectives fresh.
If there's one technique that has helped me and many of my customers to effectively deal with situations and get results, it's visualization. Here's how this agile practice works.
In Q1 and Q2 of 2017 I'm again giving several agile workshops. As my workshops can sell out, my advice is to get your ticket while there are still seats available (some are selling quite fast).
What happens to the traditional roles when transitioning to Agile? In this guest blog post Shibabrata Mondal asks himself this question, and explores how agile transitions impact product and project manager roles and how these traditional roles are related to new roles of Scrum master and Product Owner that Scrum brings in.
Today I gave the talk Spicing up Agile Retrospectives at TopConf Linz 2017. My presentation is now available on-line.
When you're a new team, the sail boat futurespective exercise helps you to set your agile course and start sailing to reach your goal.