Once you start getting small stories from the PO and even before then next problem to arise is the issue of prioritization. This comes in two flavors: either everything is priority 1, or it is lumped into huge groups which mean nothing (i.e. Critical, Must, Should, Could), which should all be ready for the release. The [...] Read more »
How to Lose a Team in 10 Days – Day 2
If you can get the PO’s involved like we talked in day 1, the next problem which usually comes up is the issue of breaking User Stories into small chunks. The Problem Product Owners, regardless of previous background, find it hard to understand why we need small stories in Agile. In the Kanban-Scrum war, I [...] Read more »
How to Lose a Team in 10 Days – Day 1
I’ve been asked to give a talk at AgileByExample on “How to Lose a Team in 10 Days – common mistakes POs make”. For this I created a set of comics to illustrate the mistakes, in the upcoming days I will post one problem after the other, and give some ways to resolve them. If [...] Read more »
Agile Israel 2011
On Monday, I gave a talk at the very successful, Agile Israel 2011 conference. Here are the slides from my talk, I will post later answers to some of the questions I received. Lean product management and continuous planning View more presentations from inbaroren. Read more »
Can we have too many Personans?
Someone recently asked me about having too many personas. They started an exercise and can up with a huge amount of personas for each of their products (for the sake of this post: X, Y and Z) and I wanted to share my response to him. In my opinion, the reason to have different personas [...] Read more »