by Elizabeth Harrin | May 4, 2021 | Career
Recently I spoke with Lela Machaidze on Clubhouse about future trends in project management. Here are the notes from that discussion. Lela: For the last decade, there have been a lot of changes in the PM profession. The trend that is here to stay is remote work and...
by Stefan Wolpers | May 3, 2021 | Agile and Scrum, Agile Transition, Making Your Scrum Work, Scrum anti-patterns, Sprint
TL; DR: The Hardening Sprint Fallacy There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Given that Scrum is a framework with a reasonable yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone. The hardening Sprint is one of those Scrum failures that are...
by Stefan Wolpers | May 3, 2021 | Agile and Scrum, Hiring Agile practitioners, Interview or questionnaire, Product Owner, scrum
TL; DR: Product Owner Interview Questions — The Product Backlog and Refinement If you are looking to fill a position for a Product Owner in your organization, you may find the following 71 interview questions useful to identify the right candidate. They are derived...
by Stefan Wolpers | May 3, 2021 | News
TL; DR: Product-Led Is Also Bad, From CTO to CPO—Food for Agile Thought #288 Welcome to the 288th edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 30,952 peers. This week, we counter the popular complaint from product folks that their organization’s...
by Stefan Wolpers | May 3, 2021 | Agile and Scrum, Agile Transition, Making Your Scrum Work, scrum anti-pattern, Sprint review, Stakeholders, Video
TL; DR: A Sprint Review without Stakeholders There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Given that Scrum is a framework with a reasonable yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone. A Sprint Review without stakeholders may create an...
by Stefan Wolpers | May 3, 2021 | News
TL; DR: FAST Agile, OKRs’ Dark Side—Food for Agile Thought #289 Welcome to the 289th edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 31,016 peers. This week, we delve into FAST Agile to fill the gap for a purely complex agile method. We examine the...
by Stefan Wolpers | May 3, 2021 | Agile and Scrum, Agile Metrics, Agile Transition, Retrospective, Scrum metrics, sprint retrospective
TL; DR: Data-Informed Retrospectives In their book Agile Retrospectives, Esther Derby and Diana Larsen popularized the idea that a Sprint Retrospect comprises five stages. The second stage refers to gathering data so that the Scrum Team can have data-informed...
by Stefan Wolpers | May 3, 2021 | Agile and Scrum, Agile Transition, Making Your Scrum Work, Scrum anti-patterns, Sprint review
TL; DR: The Sprint Acceptance Gate There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Given that Scrum is a framework with a reasonable yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone. Turning the Sprint Review into a Sprint acceptance gate where...
by Stefan Wolpers | May 3, 2021 | News
TL; DR: Design Thinking Scrum—Food for Agile Thought #290 Welcome to the 290th edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 31,083 peers. This week, we delve into Design Thinking Scrum, and we note that most frameworks pay a lot of attention to...
by Stefan Wolpers | May 3, 2021 | Agile and Scrum, Agile anti-patterns, Making Your Scrum Work, Product backlog, Product backlog refinement, Product Owner
TL; DR: Three Wide-Spread Scrum Master Failures There are plenty of Product Owner failures. Given that Scrum is a framework with a precise and concise yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone. Explore with me three widespread examples of how Product...
