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The Influencer (A Preferred Product Owner Stance)

Scrum.org

What is an Influencer? These gentlemen are in all the top-10 lists of being the ‘the best’ Politician, Influencer, world changer, etc. So before diving into the Product Owner taking an Influencer stance, let’s first inspect what an Influencer is. Cambridge English Dictionary , Oktober 2019 —. and Abraham Lincoln.

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How To Motivate Your Project Team

Rebel’s Guide to PM

We do it as children, we do it as teenagers (often terrifying our parents in the process) and we do it as adults. Modelling is the reason we don’t want our children to hang out with “the wrong sort of influence” and it is the reason we want them to hang out with “the right sort of people”. This interview first appeared in 2019.

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SoundNotes Live at Agile 2019: Day One

Leading Agile

In this live talk with Natalie Warnert of Women in Agile, an event for female Agilists each year before Agile 2019. Then we delve into the topic of her Agile 2019 conference talk about aligning strategic intent and vision with what you’re building. Aligning Products to Vision & Strategic Intent w/Natalie Warnert. w/Erika Massie.

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Uncovering the Essentials of Skilled Facilitation for Agile Teams

Scrum.org

Adaptation of Kaner’s diamond model of participation (source Carrie Kappel 2019) Techniques and Training for Top Scrum Facilitation Skills Scrum is a framework that thrives on communication and collaboration. Its efficacy rests heavily on well-executed facilitation to steer teams toward their goals.

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What Makes A Good Product Owner?

Scrum.org

But as Unger-Windeler and her colleagues write (2019): “While [the] role is supposed to maximize the value of the product under development, there seemed to be several scattered results on how the Product Owner achieve this, as well as what actually constitutes this role in practice.”. And Product Owners certainly seem to play a role there.

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This is why your company doesn’t make real progress, although everyone works so hard.

Scrum.org

However, the organisation has a policy that allows the team release their increment only after a painful process that is governed by external approvers and only as a part of a monolith code base in sync with other teams, on a specific date. Does that process help anyone or does it just sub-optimise the whole? Can we improve it?”.

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Celebrating Women in Project Management

ProjectManager.com

It’s a process, a mindset and a shift to keep our global economy sustainable, innovative and engaged. Can you tell us about what inspired you to launch a Women in PM Initiative for 2019?” Women have choices and can help change this ratio. What perspective did you gain from shining a light on women in PM?