Thoughts on priority poker
Many years ago, I took part in one of the first Certified Scrum Product Owner courses ever held by Ken Schwaber and Mike Cohn. One of my favourite exercises from that course, and one I’ve often used since, was priority poker. Priority poker is a method for assigning relative priority, or weight, to items, and [...]
The relationship between XP and Scrum project variables
I’m on the road right now, and don’t have time to write a long post, but I don’t want to withhold this interesting insight from you.
Last week, I attended the first Swiss Lean/Agile/Scrum conference. As usual, the Swiss take a long time to catch up with new ideas and technology, but when there’s money to [...]
Scrum is a triple win proposition
How often have I heard people talking about win-win situations in business, where what they ended up with was was, at best a compromise – i.e., where everyone gets what no one really wants.
At the end of my Scrum courses, I do a final exercise and let the attendees prepare a 5-minute presentation on Scrum. [...]