by Stefan Wolpers | Mar 28, 2021 | Agile and Scrum, Agile Transition, Product backlog, Scrum anti-patterns, Stakeholders
TL; DR: Product Backlog Defense Make no mistake: Your Product Backlog is the last line of defense preventing your Scrum Team from becoming a feature factory; hence Product Backlog defense is vital: Figure out a process that creates value for your customers. Moreover,...
by Stefan Wolpers | Mar 15, 2021 | Agile and Scrum, Product backlog, Product backlog refinement, Scrum anti-patterns, Video
TL; DR: Product Backlog Anti-Patterns Q&A A few weeks, Scrum.org hosted a webinar on Product Backlog anti-patterns with me, which left several questions unanswered as we ran out of time. Hence please find following my answers to the additional 18 questions I...
by Stefan Wolpers | Feb 21, 2021 | Agile and Scrum, Agile anti-patterns, Agile Transition, Product discovery, Product roadmap, scrum, Scrum anti-patterns
TL; DR: Product Discovery Anti-Patterns Scrum has proven to be an effective product delivery framework for all sorts of products. However, Scrum is equally well suited to build the wrong product efficiently as its Achilles heel has always been the product discovery...
by Stefan Wolpers | Feb 14, 2021 | Agile and Scrum, Agile anti-patterns, Agile culture, Agile Transition, Scaling agile, Scrum anti-patterns, Startups, Workshops trainings
TL; DR: How to Make Agile Work in Fast-Growing Startups For years, I worked in several Berlin-based, fast-growing startups in my capacity as Scrum Master, agile coach, and Product Owner. These are my lessons learned on making ‘agile’ — including Scrum as a framework —...
by Stefan Wolpers | Feb 8, 2021 | Agile and Scrum, Product backlog, Product backlog refinement, scrum, Scrum anti-patterns
TL; DR: Product Owner Anti-Patterns from Job Ads Garbage in, garbage out: No matter whether your team chose Scrum for the right purpose—solving complex, adaptive problems. No matter whether your Scrum Team’s product quality is top-notch or whether your teammates...
by Stefan Wolpers | Feb 1, 2021 | Agile and Scrum, Product Owner, Scrum anti-patterns
TL; DR: Product Owner Anti-Patterns from Job Ads Like a job ad for a Scrum Master position, the equivalent for the Product Owner position also reveals excellent insight into an organization’s progress on becoming agile. Yesterday, I analyzed 60-plus randomly selected...
