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What Makes A Good Product Owner?

Scrum.org

From our own quantitative research with 1.200 Scrum Teams , we know that teams are more effective when they are more aware of the needs of their stakeholders. Unger-Windeler and her colleagues (2019) also investigated what Product Owners do in many different organizations and concluded that “no Product Owner role is like another”.

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The Origins of Scrum Might Not Be What You Think They Are (Wisdom from Rafael Sabbagh)

Gunther Verheyen

In the summer of 2019 I got in touch with O’Reilly Media about their ambition to add a book about Scrum to their “97 Things” series. O’Reilly and I compiled and merged our lists of potential authors and in August 2019 I started contacting them as potential contributors. 1986, [link]. (2) 14, 2001: pp.

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Scrum Patterns - Putting Scrum into practice

Scrum.org

In 2017 I was talking to the head of the Agile Coach Group of a large bank. They create Spreadsheets with questions/measures to assess how well these teams, groups and branches are complying with the standard way of working. In September 2019, the book I co-authored, called A Scrum Book was finally published.

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Speed up your development with mobbing

Scrum.org

Development Team Organises Its Own Work. The Development Team is both self-organising and cross-functional and by the end of each Sprint provides an increment that is ‘done’ and releasable. The team defines how to organise work in a Sprint. The Scrum Guide, 2017). No need to conduct a code review.

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Team Management: The Key of to Success

International Institute for Learning

For instance in the Agile Scrum Methodology [4] it is recommended to have 10 or fewer people in a team. Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, likes to use the “two-pizza rule” for strategy and development teams. If it takes more than two pizzas to feed (with a slice) the team, the team is likely too big.

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How we used Large Scale Scrum to Improve on the Spotify Inspired Model at a Large Dutch Bank

Scrum.org

THIS IS A REPOST ARTICLE DETAILING THE KEYNOTE I CO-PRESENTED AT THE LESS CONFERENCE IN 2019. Our Business Lending product is being developed by more than 20 teams spread across 3 sites. Each team contains business, IT and operations skills. This was in late 2017. . Output driven development.

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Speed Up Your Scrum With Mob Programming

Scrum.org

Development Team Organises Its Own Work. The Development Team is both self-organising and cross-functional and by the end of each Sprint provides an increment that is ‘done’ and releasable. The team defines how to organise work in a Sprint. The Scrum Guide, 2017). No need to conduct a code review.

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