The topic of ownership and contribution’s to other people’s or team’s work ignites everyone over and over again. Especially now, when “Agile” is in the mainstream and concepts like “ownership”, “collaboration” and “commitment” has become the main topics in many companies as strongly connected with people, their autonomy and independence.
How to make sure the work is done and people’s ownership is protected? Let’s check how to contribute to other’s work and
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Are you a Product Owner? Let me ask you few questions.
When did you for the last time publish your product to end-users and when did you gather feedback from them?
yesterday? week ago? month? quarter? half a year?
It is the core of the Empiricism – validate our assumptions and change behaviour according to the results received. It is the first question that I ask the Product Owner. For me, it is a great discussion starter regarding
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It is a short introduction to Systems Thinking concept.
Since the very beginning of human history, we are used to specialisation. We put ourselves into small boxes of knowledge, expertise and different roles. We were used to the world, where anyone may become master because specialities were very narrow. The “only thing”, which was needed, was the time. Yeah – and only a few of us will become masters in the
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Most of the teams do not release product each Sprint due to various reasons – some of them are business-related, technicalities heavily influence others. Taking the Sprint’s length into consideration helps find the right pace at which the team may use the empiricism – inspection and adaptation
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Scrum Master is one of three roles described in the Scrum Guide. SM is a servant leader, a facilitator and a guardian of the process. Portrayed so many times, that I do not know if I can add anything else to the topic. On the other hand, I still see so many problems in my organisation about the Scrum Master’s role that I need to stand up and clarify this role once again. I uploaded a little addition at
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