Backlog Grooming is an incredibly important Scrum ceremony. Here are nine tips to make your Backlog Grooming meetings even better.
Get your Scrum ceremonies in shape
When Scrum ceremonies are balanced, it is really difficult to make things wrong. So, let’s start improving the weak ones!
A self-managing team is created in small steps
A self-managing team is efficient, motivated and fast to make decisions. In this blog we will tell you, how you can make your team more self-managing!
Superman in the Team? This Retrospective Method Will Save Your Day!
A retrospective is an effective way to make your organization develop. Retro can be done in many different ways, but this retro method is worth trying out!
From Project Managers to Product Owners
The Product Owner is a role that has a great impact on the team’s results. That’s why it’s a good thing that more and more organizations now have a proper Product Owner. However, the mere change of title does not mean that things are going well – the most important thing is to understand what product ownership really means!
Even Strong Teams Need Leadership
Leadership is one of the cornerstones of a good team. However, agile teams cannot be guided by the traditional leadership model – agile does not work as a model where one leader directs and decides.
Scrum Masters, a Forgotten Asset
The Scrum Master is important for an agile team. A good Scrum Master ensures, among others, the success of meetings and good team spirit. Read our blog post so you know exactly why you should invest in Scum Masters!
Curiosity – Cornerstone of a Good Team
The most important thing behind a good team is curiosity. If the team is not curious, it keeps the same paths as before: it does not question the information coming from the outside, and is not really interested in the customer’s problems. Curious teams, on the other hand, open up new paths and experiment. And the culture of the experiment is the background of agility!
Looking for a Product Owner? Read This First!
Product Owner eli tuoteomistaja on ketterissä tuotekehitystiimeissä rooli, jonka vastuulla on edustaa asiakkaan ja stakeholdereiden ääntä tiimille ja priorisoida tiimin tekemistä. Ideana on se, että yksi henkilö kerää tietoa monista eri lähteistä ja keskustelee säännöllisesti monien ihmisten kanssa, jotta voi sitten tehdä päätöksiä siitä mikä on tärkeää: mitä tehdään ja mitä ei. Lisäksi Product Owner vastaa siitä, että tiimillä on aina valmiina aloitettavaksi hyvin määriteltyä ja tärkeää tekemistä.
SAFe+JIRA = the Perfect Pair for Agile Development and Enterprise Resource Planning?
SAFe and JIRA is the biggest love story of the centrury! In our blog we will tell you, why this pair goes so perfectly together. Read it and join us for the wedding planning!
Product Owner – a Side Job or Full-time Work?
It often feels like the importance of product ownership is not entirely understood. However, the Product Owner is a really important role for any product development, and it should be payed more attention to. In this blog we will tell you, why product ownership is worth investing in.
If it works, fix it! – Refactoring Is Always Worth It
Refactoring, ie editing a functional code, is a bit difficult in many product development organizations. Often, the idea of using time to change the code already implemented is eliminated, and resources are preferably put into making new functionality. However, this blog tells us why refactoring is worthwhile.