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Following these steps you can not only crush all loyalty, optimism, and quality in your Product Owner, but you can make him tear the very hair from his scalp:

Make a business decision without consulting the partners in the business.
Find a buffoon who has never heard of Agile and make him Project Manager.
Task the Project Manager [...]

Before too long we were all seated around the table-tennis table in the meeting room.
“Where’s Artur?” somebody asked, and a peal of giggling erupted from Dima following a joke involving the toilet and food from the local shop.
Artur entered  the room some minutes later, to be shunned by more comments and witty [...]

… Stop it.

Good Evening.
A question, if you’ll permit me.
What happens at the end of every single day?
Answer: Sunset.
And, what happens at the end of every Sprint, grasshopper? Something beautiful, multi-coloured, and romantic?
No! What happens is hectic, important, and the most valuable things which Scrum has to offer.
That is:

Retrospective meeting(s)
Deployment of completed work

That’s right. The time between Sprints [...]

Product Owners come in most shapes and sizes. Some of those shapes and sizes don’t quite fit into the development process – and here’s some suggested points from which you can conclude whether or not you have a dud PO.
You have a dud P.O. if:

The P.O. doesn’t come to the Sprint Planning Meeting.
The P.O. comes [...]

Don’t.

To me, there’s not confusion on how to handle incomplete stories – and yet, there is a huge range of different approaches hanging around in the Scrum community.So, I’m going to address some of the common claims being made.
Some people make claims that you have to credit some ‘done’ story points.
Ridiculous. Scrum is not a [...]

Mr. Ronald E Jeffries is trying to drum up support for a certification process for agile developers, because, “Ken Schwaber, co-creator of Scrum, says publicly that perhaps only 25% of Scrum teams get the full benefit of Scrum.”
Now, the real point he’s trying to make here is that his bank balance is could do with [...]

Dramatic title, I know.
The point I wanted to make is that in more traditional software development, you would have a scenario like the human body. There would be the eyes which send signals to the brain, the brain which interprets these signals and controls the arm, which controls the hand, which makes the product.
Now, though, [...]

Well, being Product Owner is a bit like being a head chef. You can either cook the meal yourself, you can order someone to cook it, or you can convince the diner that they don’t really need a meal.
And which do you choose?
Well. It depends. It depends on who is ordering the meal, and who [...]