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Published in Product Owner Stories

·Mar 23, 2020

Working from home as a Product Owner

With many companies around the world asking staff to work from home during the current COVID-19 virus outbreak, we’re all having to adapt to a new way of working. So how do we, as Product Owners / Managers, help keep our team productive during this time? Communication is everything When everyone is working…

Product Owner

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Working from home as a Product Owner
Working from home as a Product Owner

Published in Product Owner Stories

·Feb 20, 2019

Mario and Julia are new starts

Both are junior members of staff without much prior experience. Mario is taking on his first role as a Product Owner and Julia is a Developer. How are they both supported and trained when they join their agile squad? Julia joins a team of experienced developers, and she can spend…

Product Owner

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Mario and Julia are new starts
Mario and Julia are new starts

Published in Product Owner Stories

·Feb 14, 2019

Are my user stories too long?

As a Product Owner its tempting to try and capture as much detail as possible on a user story. I might start with a simple requirement, but then end up adding loads of additional information! Of course, we all know that a user story, at its essence is just meant…

Agile

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Are my user stories too long?
Are my user stories too long?

Published in Product Owner Stories

·Jan 28, 2019

How can a Product Owner be on multiple teams?

In an ideal world, there should be one Product Owner for one agile development team or squad. Or at a stretch, maybe one Product Owner for two teams, if they’re working on the same backlog. At the moment, I’m not in that ideal world. My current project has five squads…

Scrum

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How can a Product Owner be on multiple teams?
How can a Product Owner be on multiple teams?

Published in Product Owner Stories

·Nov 14, 2018

Being both Product Owner and Scrum Master

The Scrum Master for my team left for a new role at the end of August, and since then we’ve been without a dedicated Scrum Master. My role is that of the Product Owner, but in the past I’ve covered some of the duties of the Scrum Master (keeping the…

Agile

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Being both Product Owner and Scrum Master
Being both Product Owner and Scrum Master

Published in Product Owner Stories

·Aug 9, 2018

Blockers to getting a story ready

I like that we have a Definition of Ready for our stories. As a Product Owner it gives me confidence that I’ve done my job properly in analysing and communicating the requirements, and also that the team is ready to hit the ground running when the sprint starts. Lately, however…

Agile

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Blockers to getting a story ready
Blockers to getting a story ready

Published in Product Owner Stories

·Jul 15, 2018

Never report on story points

The whole subject of measuring performance of agile teams is a divisive one. In an ideal world we should be looking to measure the value delivered by a team, rather than collecting performance statistics. After all, our primary goal in agile is to deliver some value to the product or…

Agile

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Never report on story points
Never report on story points

Published in Product Owner Stories

·May 9, 2018

Sprint Commitment

How often does your sprint goal or stories change in the middle of the sprint? A late-breaking requirement or bug comes in, or a manager pops up with an urgent task, and before you know it your sprint is totally overloaded. Does that sound familiar? Teams often think they’re being…

Agile

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Sprint Commitment
Sprint Commitment

Published in Product Owner Stories

·May 3, 2018

What’s your Definition of Ready?

Have you even been to sprint planning and realised that the so-called stories are a bunch of crap? One-line JIRA tickets that the team haven’t seen before? Then you need to enforce a Definition of Ready. We can be good about tracking the progress of stories once they’ve been added…

Agile

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What’s your Definition of Ready?
What’s your Definition of Ready?

Published in Product Owner Stories

·May 1, 2018

How are we developing junior Product Owners?

In the olden days of waterfall development, you had teams of Business Analysts that all sat together. …

Agile

3 min read

How are we developing junior Product Owners?
How are we developing junior Product Owners?
Richard Bloomfield

Richard Bloomfield

Agile Product Owner for Equifax in Dublin Ireland

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