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What Makes A Good Product Owner?

Scrum.org

Sverrisdottir, Ingason & Jonasson (2014) interviewed Product Owners from different organizations that there are often multiple Product Owners for the same product, even though the Scrum Guide prescribes against this. . Sverrisdottir, Ingason & Jonasson (2014) also found no standard for how much time Product Owners spend with teams.

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Project Decision-Making

Velociteach

Move fast and break things” was Facebook’s motto until 2014. Spending decisions, authorization to deploy, or sign-offs may be defined by corporate policy. Decision-making processes need to be tailored and define the steps, participants, roles, and timing. Risk tolerance describes comfort in taking risks.

2014 91
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Product Discovery for Scrum Teams

Scrum.org

Why the Scrum Guide Lacks Product Discovery as a Concept The Scrum Guide 2020 emphasizes the role of the Product Owner in managing the Product Backlog but does not define the product discovery process. Design Thinking is a good fit when the problem is complex or ill-defined, requiring innovative and user-centric solutions.

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Unlocking the Power and Mastery of Development Approach and Life Cycle

Project Pulse Journal

Defining Development Approach as a Performance Domain The Development Approach and Life Cycle Performance Domain is a meld of systematic methodologies designed to focus on the activities and functions essential in shaping the cadence and phases of a project's life cycle. This choice will define the course of your project.

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Top PM 10 Articles of All Time

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It touched on the classic reasons for project failures – poor sponsorship and so on – but also focused on how we define failure on projects. In September 2007 I published a guide to why projects fail. It’s still something that I don’t think we spend enough time doing. I still believe that all this is true.

2007 325
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Open Space

Scrum.org

Open Space is one of the 33 Liberating Structures listed in the Book "The Surprising Power of Liberating Structures " (2014), but because Open Space has been around for quite some time, the power of Open Space did not come as a surprise for many. . Shaping the role of a facilitator (define the role and responsibility of that person).

2012 128
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Burnout in Project Management

The IIL Blog

2014), and Jugdev et al., 2014) Project management and burnout: Implications of the Demand-Control-Support model on project-based work, International Journal of Project Management. Post-Failure Success: Sensemaking in Problem Representation Reformulation. Journal of Product Innovation Management. 37 Issue 6, 483-505. May2014, Vol.