On April 9th, I published an article “Why we dropped Scrum for Kanban in our lead up to launch“. The article will be published on the Scrum Alliance website over the coming days and I was just approached by a Continue reading
Just a quick post to let you all know that Jaro, a project that I’ve been working on (ScrumMaster / Agile Dude) is now live. It’s a unique gaming concept centred around one question: If you won $1 billion, how Continue reading
Let me set the scene: It was around 3 weeks to the launch of our product (Expensive big bang PR launch) and the team are discussing the plan of attack for launch. We’re coming up to the end of our Continue reading
Its the new year and as is tradition, we all think about the year ahead and set ourselves some goals, for example, a popular goal is going to the gym and shedding those extra kilos. So we all write it Continue reading
I’m a huge advocate of the Lean Startup for validating ideas with real customers, before time & money is ‘wasted’ pursuing a solution that users may not use. Pursuing an idea using this method (Build – Measure – Learn) shouldn’t Continue reading
Last month I completed the Scrum Master course, run by Simon Bennett from LASTing Benefits. At the beginning of the course, I had Scrum explained to me in a completely different way than I was accustomed to and whilst it Continue reading
I’ve come up with a new word/phrase: Scope Headache (Noun) You’re a Product Owner, it’s the beginning of a project and you are trying to define a minimum viable product, however the scope is so broad that the process of defining Continue reading
I’ve always wondered how a multi-platform, large product would scale agile. Here’s a fascinating & detailed account of how the guys (and girls!) over at Spotify stay agile whilst working with a large team of over 250 people, distributed across Continue reading
Here’s a video I just watched that articulates the role of the Product Owner within Scrum / Kanban / XP. Well worth a watch for anyone that is interested or practices an Agile control framework. It’s very well illustrated and Continue reading
I recently partook in a discussion on the ‘Scrum Practitioners’ group on LinkedIn. Unfortunately this group is ‘Members Only’, but I thought I would share the response with you. A lady by the name of Josie asked the following question: Continue reading