In a previous blog post, I talked about different categories of product owners. You can check it out here. But here’s a summary: Scribe — doesn’t add any value, just takes orders. Proxy — who maybe doesn’t just take the orders, maybe adds some value in terms of assessing whether…

Where is your product in its lifecycle? AND how that could overlap with the complexity of the work that you’re dealing with? How old is your product?

Isn’t Kanban just about outputs? Isn’t Kanban missing a trick with value and organizational capability? First of all, I want to give you a little bit of context because there’s a wonderful framework called evidence-based management from scrum.org and it has two aspects. The first aspect I won’t go into…

Kanban is a strategy for optimizing the flow of value through a process that uses a visual, pull-based system. It’s suited to complex problems because it helps deal with uncertainty, a central feature of complex professional knowledge work. …

Short answer: no. But let me explain why. Scrum Guide There isn’t anything in the scrum guide that prohibits this. But it’s probably not very wise. Scrum Accountabilities In Scrum, there are three accountabilities: developers → the people doing the work, delivering a high-quality done increment.

How is Kanplexity different to Kanban as a standalone framework? Kanban is a strategy to optimize the flow of value through a visual pull- based system.

Design thinking has been around for a while. UX has been around for a long time. Human-centered engineering was being talked about even when I went to university a long, long time ago, but it seems that the world has cottoned on to the whole idea of discovery. UX

This article makes references to the Kanplexity guide, which can be downloaded, free of charge, here. If you have people in product development or product management, in Scrum for example, if you have a product owner who’s supposed to be on the hook for maximizing value … what is the…

What is the difference between a scrum master and an agile leader? Before I answer that question, what is the difference between a scrum master and an agile coach? $200 a day. A scrum master should be working at all levels of the organization; working with other teams of teams; helping people to understand…