WHAT…The Product Owner ISN’T The Customer

So it appears I may have been doing the right thing wrong all this time…Scrum talks about a Product Owner role and I’ve always had teams setup so the the customer (one or more actual people) fulfils this role. Recent discussions on the Scrum mailing list seem to say this isn’t the case. Personally I’d […]

Scrum of Scrums

So recently I heard of a team that is using Scrum and their manager had decided to have a “Person of the Iteration” award for the person that completes the most points in a Iteration. I think this totally misses the point of Agile being a team of people working together to get as much […]

Eggs With Your Bacon Sandwich? Systems Thinking Stand-ups

One of the things in Scrum I’ve always struggled to come to terms with is the concept of Chickens and Pigs. For those of you in the dark this relates to who is involved in the stand-ups err..Daily Scrums. It relates back to an anecdote about a Chicken and Pig working out how they setup […]