Seven Tips to Being a Great Product Owner

Every software product in development has a Product Owner who is in charge of supplying the requirements, and it is often misunderstood how important this role is. You can have the best engine in your car (the development team), but if you steer in the wrong direction, you’re not going to get to your destination.…

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The Five Things Every Scrum Master Should Do

The larger a Scrum team is, the more opportunity for wastage there is, and so the more difference a good Scrum Master makes. A team with a bad Scrum master can feel powerless, floundering, isolated, and overwhelmed whereas a team with a good Scrum Master generally feels well informed, connected, directed, powerful, and like they…

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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

There are five interrelated issues that undermine the performance of a team, and they can be viewed from 2 angles: The Negative Angle This is popular because as managers we’re often looking for what’s wrong so we can fix it: Absence of trust.  If the members of the team do not trust each other, then…

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