by Stefan Wolpers | Jul 24, 2023 | Agile and Scrum, Lean and Product, Product backlog, Product backlog refinement, Product discovery, Product management, scrum team, Tools
TL; DR: Product Discovery for Scrum Teams While Scrum excels at building and releasing Increments, it does not guarantee that those are valuable—garbage in, garbage out. Scrum teams can equally make things no one is interested in using at all. The critical artifact to...
by Stefan Wolpers | Jul 10, 2023 | Agile and Scrum, Agile Transition, Product backlog, Product backlog refinement, Product Owner, scrum anti-pattern
TL; DR: The Costs of an Oversized Product Backlog Some Product Owners believe that a comprehensive Product Backlog is the best way to accomplish the Product Goal and be fully transparent simultaneously—never let a possibly valuable idea slip away. However, a...
by Stefan Wolpers | Nov 21, 2022 | Agile and Scrum, Agile Transition, Product backlog, Product backlog refinement, Product discovery, Product Increment, Product Owner
TL;DR: Value Creation in Scrum As a tactical framework, Scrum is good at delivering Increments into customers’ hands. As we work in iterations, we probably do that several times per month, mitigating risk by closing feedback loops. Nevertheless, there is a potentially...
by Stefan Wolpers | Oct 3, 2022 | Agile and Scrum, hands-on agile meetup, Product backlog, Product backlog refinement, Video, Videos, Webinars
TL; DR: HoA #44: Honey, I Shrunk the Backlog w/ Allan Kelly In this energizing 44th Hands-on Agile session on product backlog management, Allan Kelly clarified one thing: The backlog was a great idea until it wasn’t. Many successful teams deliver backlog items daily,...
by Stefan Wolpers | Sep 12, 2022 | Agile and Scrum, Development Team, Product backlog, Product backlog refinement, Product Owner, Sprint planning
TL; DR: Product Backlog Principles Contrary to popular belief, the Product Owner does not have dictatorial powers regarding the composition and order of the Product Backlog. Instead, Scrum as a framework is based on a delicate system of checks and balances,...
by Stefan Wolpers | Aug 15, 2022 | Agile and Scrum, hands-on agile meetup, Product backlog, Product management, Video, Videos, Webinars
TL; DR: HoA #43: Outcome-Based Product Planning w/ Jeff Gothelf In this energizing 43rd Hands-on Agile session on outcome-based product planning, Jeff Gothelf clarified one thing: “Roadmapping is a flawed concept in the age of Agile. Maps, by their definition, are...
