Underpinning scrum is the need for a product backlog. There are many ways to create a product backlog and one of my favourites is User story mapping. Now, there’s a book dedicated to just this technique. Is it worth your time and money?
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Is a Scrum Product Owner Role Really Necessary?
The Scrum Guide says that a scrum team consists of three roles: product owner, development team and scrum master. My work as a scrum trainer and coach has revealed that some organisations don’t use product owners at all. So, are they really necessary?
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What Does Scrum Mean?
What is the meaning of scrum? (Sounds like a variation on a Monty Python film). What does scrum mean? Is it an acronym? Here are the facts.
Six Benefits of Scrum (most organisations aren’t getting)
When scrum is implemented well, organizations and scrum teams gain six major benefits. When scrum is implemented poorly, they don’t. Are you getting these benefits? How’s your scrum implementation going?
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Can Personal Scrum be Used for a Team of One?
Scrum is a framework created to help teams of 3-9 people develop and sustain complex products. Can it be used by a ‘scrum’ of one? And if it can, what skills do you need to make it work?
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