Roman Pichler

5 Common User Story Mistakes

User stories are a simple, yet effective way to communicate how a user or customer employs a product. But writing…

13 years ago

Get Your Focus Right: Learning and Execution in Scrum

Learning what a product should look like and do, and building solid, shippable software are different concerns. Separating the two…

13 years ago

The Product Canvas Creation Workshop

The Product Canvas is a simple, yet powerful tool that helps you create a product with a great user experience…

13 years ago

Agile Scenarios and Storyboards

User stories are great at capturing product functionality. But they are less suited to describe complex user interactions. This is…

13 years ago

Agile Product Planning: Vision, Strategy, and Tactics

Product planning is just as important in an agile context as in a traditional setting. Unfortunately, some product owners focus…

13 years ago

Non-functional Requirements

This post explains how you can discover and describe non-functional requirements like performance, robustness, and interoperability.

13 years ago

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Backlog

The product backlog is an important tool: It lists the ideas and requirements necessary to create a product. But is…

13 years ago

Tips for an Effective Product Demo

The sprint demo is a standard technique in Scrum to collect feedback from users, customers, and stakeholders in order to…

13 years ago

Product Owner Empowerment

Playing the product owner role can be challenging: It requires the authority to say no to ideas, request, and feedback…

13 years ago

Creating Effective Sprint Goals

Working with a sprint goal is a powerful agile practice. This post helps you understand what sprint goals are, why…

13 years ago