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User Story Modelling

User stories are great at capturing product functionality in isolation. But they are not well suited to describe the relationship…

15 years ago

The Product Vision Board

The vision plays an important role in bringing a new product to life: It acts as the overarching goal guiding…

15 years ago

The Definition of Ready in Scrum

“Ready are you? What know you of ready?” says Yoda to Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars movie “The Empire…

15 years ago

How to Make Your Product Fail

This blog post provides a tongue-in-cheek collection of common product creation mistakes. Combined they are a recipe for certain failure…

15 years ago

The Scrum Product Owner Role on One Page

The product owner is a product management role that emerged in Scrum in the late 1990ies. But many organisations still…

15 years ago

Stable Agile Teams

It’s not uncommon for me to visit a new client and discover that the agile development teams frequently change, sometimes…

16 years ago

Refining User Stories

User stories come in different shapes and sizes. Large stories, also called epics, allow quickly sketching product functionality, which is…

16 years ago

The Lean Product Backlog – Limit Variation and Prevent Overburden

Many product backlogs are too long, detailed and complex. This is in stark contrast to what the product backlog should…

16 years ago

The Lean Product Backlog – Eliminate Waste

Many product backlogs are too long, detailed and complex. This is in stark contrast to what the product backlog should…

16 years ago

Think Product!

This blog post explores the notion of a product in Scrum. Being clear on what a product is a prerequisite…

16 years ago