Competing priorities and maximising value
It has been about six months since my last blog post, which is a lot longer between posts than I had hoped when I first started blogging. So what has been happening that has caused this hiatus? The end of 2018 saw a number of family events. It was my daughters birthday, which was swiftly […]
Jackanory
Following a series of blog posts on metrics, I couldn’t decide which of my other ideas should form the basis my next post. I thought that I would try something different, which turned out to be both a success and failure. I decided that I would create a poll on my Twitter account and get […]
Could a Product Owner be a Google Car test driver?
It is often said that the aim for the Scrum Master is to make themselves redundant. They should be looking to create such a high performing team that the team are able to remove their own impediments and no longer require any facilitation. Geoff Watts provides a great analogy in his book, Scrum Mastery, that of Nanny McPhee. Hopefully you will have seen […]
Product Ownership from a distance
In a previous post I provided an introduction to my time as a Product Owner and how I went from Passenger to Driver. I would like to continue that journey and consider how things changed when we moved from an internal Development Team to an external, third party Development Team. During the course of the […]
Passenger to Driver – My introduction to Product Ownership
Having provided a brief overview of my Agile journey, I thought that I would take a closer look at my introduction to software development and my role as a Product Owner. Although I was aware that an IT project had started in order to bring the processing of the data I analysed in-house, I had […]