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From mastering backlog management to aligning teams with broader business goals, we cover the key topics that matter most for Product Owners. Our articles dive deep into best practices, real-world case studies, and actionable strategies that will enhance your effectiveness in driving product success, delivering value to customers, and fostering strong collaboration across teams. Whether you’re refining your approach to prioritisation, stakeholder management, or scaling agile processes, our content is designed to support you at every step.
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The Scrum Framework
The Scrum Framework is an Agile framework within which various Agile methodologies can be both emplo…
Don’t look back in anger
Continuous improvement is a core agile principle. The retrospective is an important event in all agi…
Ways for a group to reach a decision together
Ways for a group to reach a decision: There are always moments in a project when decisions must be m…
Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone To Take Action
by Simon Sinek Start with Why analyses leaders like Martin Luther King Jr and Steve Jobs and discove…
Strategize: Product Strategy and Product Roadmap Practices for the Digital Age
by Roman Pichler StrategizeProduct Strategy and Product Roadmap Practices for the Digital Age Compre…
User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product
by Jeff Patton User story mapping is a valuable tool for software development, once you understand w…
Fifty Quick Ideas to Improve Your User Stories
by Gojko Adzic Fifty Quick Ideas to Improve Your User Stories can help you write better stories, spo…
Impact Mapping: Making a Big Impact with Software Products and Projects
by Gojko Adzic This book is a practical guide to impact mapping. A simple yet incredibly effective m…
Innovation Games: Creating Breakthrough Products Through Collaborative Play
by Luke Hohmann Innovation Games: Creating Breakthrough Products Through Collaborative Play In this …
Agile Product Management with Scrum: Creating Products that Customers Love
by Roman Pichler Agile Product Management with Scrum: Creating Products that Customers LoveIn this b…
User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development
by Mike Cohn You’ll learn what makes a great user story, and what makes a bad one. You’l…
Improv-ing Agile Teams: Using Constraints To Unlock Creativity
by Paul Goddard About Paul Goddard Paul Goddard is an independent Agile coach and trainer of scrum a…
Scrum Mastery: From Good To Great Servant-Leadership
by Geoff Watts About Geoff Watts Geoff Watts is the UK’s first Certified Scrum Training and Ce…
Fifty Quick Ideas To Improve Your Retrospectives
by Tom Roden & Ben Williams This book is for anyone who undertakes continuous improvement of any…
The Machine That Changed the World
by James P Womack, Daniel T Jones & Daniel Roos The Machine That Changed the World Today, the po…
The Human Side of Agile – How to Help Your Team Deliver
by Gil Broza About Gil Broza Gil Broza has been an Agile coach since 2004 and wrote The Agile Mind-S…
Succeeding with Agile: Software Development Using Scrum
by Mike Cohn Succeeding with Agile: Software Development Using Scrum This is the definitive, realist…
Essential Scrum: A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process
by Kenneth Rubin Essential Scrum: A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process Whether you ar…
The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
by Gene Kim & Kevin Behr The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Busines…
Agile Software Development with SCRUM
by Ken Schwaber & Mike Beedle Agile Software Development with SCRUM This book shows readers how …
Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time
by Jeff Sutherland Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time Scrum is the revolutionar…
Feedback: it’s not what you get, it’s what you do with it
When teaching Scrum a large part of the information is around feedback: product feedback, process fe…
The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
by Eli Goldratt Alex Rogo is a harried plant manager who has been given 90 days to save his failing …
Show Confidence: Essential Strategies for Leading with Assurance and ImpactShow Confidence
We hear a lot about confidence in the contexts of business, personal relationships, and just about e…
A brief overview of Scrum
In this brief overview of Scrum, we introduce you to the Scrum Framework, roles within the Scrum met…
Sprint: the Heartbeat of Scrum
A Sprint, as described in the Scrum Guide, is a time-boxed period of one month or less during which …
What do Agile and Electricity have in Common?
It has been over 20 years since the writing of the Agile Manifesto. Much was, and still is, promised…
The Responsibility Process® in Action
Recently I was lucky enough to spend a couple of days with Christopher Avery renewing my practice of…
Everyone can lead an exceptional life
You may not know who Rick Rubin is but you definitely would have heard of his music. He has been a m…
A Simple Method for Breaking down Product Backlog Items into Tasks
During Sprint Planning many teams resist breaking down Product Backlog items selected into task…
What Role do Team Members Play in the Scrum Team?
Let’s get to know the different roles and responsibilities of each person in an agile developm…
Premature Estimation
Don’t worry. It happens to a lot of people. Really, it doesn’t matter. But d…
Sprint burndown charts: Grapes of Progress or Watermelon Surprise?
In a recent discussion with an ‘Argument of Agile Coaches‘ (an apt collective noun for a…
What’s in a Name
What’s in a Name: Over the last few years, Agile has acquired a lot of unwanted baggage. Some of tha…
What’s in it for you?
When starting any team, I ask a question that often shocks people in the room: What do you want to g…
Setting the agenda
Setting the agenda: While at a client, I noticed that the meetings tend to wander, a habit the devel…
A community of thinkers
A community of thinkers: Saw this in the twittersphere yesterday, and it really resonates with what …
Stop, reflect, resume
Stop, reflect, resume: Yesterday, during sprint planning, one of the team members said he didn’…
Beware planning poker
Planning poker is the most common sizing tool used within the Scrum community. Straightforward and f…
Understanding the mission
A very American phrase, I know, but it hits right at the heart of many of the problems I’ve se…
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