At a recent class a student asked me which role I would personally prefer to fill: product owner, ScrumMaster, or development team member. I have held each of these roles in the past, so that question gave me pause to consider how I really felt.
After some consideration…
Ever been on a project where you needed someone (a specialist) outside of your agile development team to do work for you? For example, I once worked with a team that was developing a medical software application and frequently needed legal specialists to draft or review…
During sprint execution, it’s the development team’s responsibility to manage the flow of work to meet the sprint goal. One important flow-related decision a self-organizing team must make is how many product backlog items the team should work on in parallel to maximize…
Growing up I used to watch reruns of the TV show Hogan’s Heroes, a comedy about a fictional Nazi P.O.W. camp (Stalag 13) that houses prisoners who assist the Allied war effort from within the camp.
In Season 2, Episode 8, “A Klink, a Bomb, and Short Fuse,” an unexploded…