Help Your Product Owner Prioritize Stories

Help Your Product Owner Prioritize Stories

Two Winning Techniques that Help Product Owners Set Priorities We’ve all seen it.  The business provides a list of enhancements to a Product Owner. You, as Scrum Master, call a meeting to walk through the enhancements and try to facilitate prioritization.  What...
Reduce Risk on Scrum Team

Reduce Risk on Scrum Team

How to Reduce Risk on Any Agile Scrum Project One of our readers asked me how to reduce project risk in a blog comment. The moment I read the comment, I started thinking about what to recommend. Yes, we all know the benefits of agile: get your product into the hands...
Write Better Stories

Write Better Stories

The 5 Key Ingredients to Write Better Stories Every time we teach a GSD Scrum Training workshop, one of the most difficult concepts for students to grasp is how to write a story. On the surface, the concept seems quite simple: Describe the user’s functional...
Agile Teams Still Need Traditional Support

Agile Teams Still Need Traditional Support

Scrum is an Agile Development Method Not a Product Management Framework When I talk about agile for business, I’m talking about the need for businesses to apply agile concepts, so they can better meet the needs of an ever-changing worldwide landscape. As you know, I...