10+ years of helping thousands of practitioners with implementation of Professional Scrum has taught me one thing – most practitioners have a very superficial understanding of Scrum. To most, Scrum is nothing more than “Daily Standup” and...
Around 14 years ago, my Coach – Peggy Reed changed my life by sending me to Scrum Training. I fell in love with Scrum and chose to become a Scrum.org Professional Scrum Trainer with the support of Ken Schwaber. Since then, I have trained thousands of students...
THE PRODUCT OWNER (PO) (This definition is based on the November 2020 version of the Scrum Guide, available at – https://scrumguides.org/scrum-guide.html) The Product Owner is a tech-savvy entrepreneur who maximizes the value stakeholders get from the product....
Over the past 10 years, I have had the privilege to guide Scrum adoption for organizations from 10 people to 10,000 people and have made some glorious, cringe-worthy mistakes that often wake me up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat. As I look back at my...
The role of the Scrum Product Owner is probably the most misunderstood of the three Scrum Roles. As I look back at the different incarnations and interpretations I have seen of Product Ownership, I thought it was time to articulate the different stances I thought an...
True Story… Many times, clients ask Agile Coaches like me to come in and share our “expertise” with them. But sometimes they really don’t want our “Expertise”. What they really want is someone with lots of TLA’s to come and...