Internal Product Owner Advice
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Story Splitting Q&A
Bite-sized story splitting Q&A for when you don’t need the full "Humanizing Work Guide to Splitting User Stories" Read More
Cultivating Good Luck
“We just got lucky.” “That was bad luck.” Luck feels like a thing that just happens to us, whether good or bad. But what… Read More
Prioritization Heuristics
When we survey Product Owners on the techniques they (actually, not officially) use to prioritize backlogs, we consistently get three answers: HiPPO (Highest Paid Person’s… Read More
Product Ownership as a Recession Proofing Tool
Strengthening product ownership is a key strategy for recession survival.. Economists are warning of a coming recession. No one knows how bad it will… Read More
Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner (A-CSPO)
A Program Designed for Internal Product Owners Move beyond managing requests to delivering strategic business value. You’re caught in the middle. Between conflicting stakeholder demands. Between strategy you don’t set and teams who need your support. Between shifting priorities, organizational politics, and unclear authority. If you’re a Product Owner in… Read More
Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) Training
Learn the secrets of the most successful Scrum Product Owners What if you could feel confident that your product backlog holds just the right details at the right time? You have clarity and alignment on what the most important work is. Your team has the information they need to create… Read More
On the Value of Product Owner Training
I love teaching Product Owner classes because the PO is in such a high-leverage role. The PO's work affects the work of 7, 9, maybe even 18 other people. And it's not difficult to triple the value delivered by a Scrum team, simply by improving their PO's skills in a few key ways. Let's look at the financial impact of that change... Read More
Making Info Visible for Better Decisions
A key part of the ScrumMaster's or Product Owner's job is making information visible.* Whether that's a product backlog, taskboard, cumulative flow diagram, or a one-off visual for a specific need, good visuals lead to better decisions. Here are four principles for doing it well... Read More
Vertical Slices and Scale
Last week, I tweeted, Working in thin vertical slices is the keystone habit for agile software development. It enables so many other good practices. — Richard Lawrence (@rslawrence) June 22, 2016 Read More