Agile
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Cross-functional teams
Cross-functional teams aren’t a new idea. And yet, somehow, we still don’t seem to have got the memo. I was…
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How Much Do You Love Conflict?
Conflict is what progress is made of. A professional and well-managed team loves conflicts and creates them on a daily…
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Consider Rolling Wave Roadmap and Backlog Planning
Many agile teams attempt to plan for an entire quarter at a time. Sometimes, that works quite well. You have…
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You may not need a Tech Lead, but others do
Vinicius sent me a tweet about an article he published called We don’t need a Tech Lead in response to…
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Cost Accounting is a Problem for Agile (and Knowledge Work)
The more I work with project portfolio teams and program managers, the more I understand one thing: Cost accounting makes…
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Decision Time: How Decision Rules Help You Make Better Product Decisions
As product managers and product owners, we make a myriad of decisions—from shaping the product strategy and determining the product…
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Pushing vs. Pulling Work in Your Agile Project
If you’re thinking about agile or trying to use it, you probably started with iterations in some form. You tried…
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Iterations and Increments
Agile is iterative and incremental development and frequent delivery with cultural change for transparency. What do the words iterative and…
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Should Product Owners be Servant-Leaders?
Being an effective product owner or product manager requires leadership: the development team and stakeholders need guidance and direction to…
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