Tag: Agile
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Learning about how Spotify builds products
It was interesting to read a very detailed breakdown of how Spotify build products by Henrik Kniberg. Kniberg is a Swedish Agile expert who consults with a lot of different companies on how to best implement Agile and Lean practices. Kniberg is well respected when it comes to iterative development and Spotify is growing rapidly within the…
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Book review: “Running Lean”
Eric Ries started it and now everyone is doing it. It wasn’t that long ago that Eric Ries starting writing about the “lean startup”, evangelising a culture of continuous improvement within startups. Ash Maurya has also written a book on this subject called “Running Lean”. Published earlier this year, “Running Lean” offers a lot of practical tips on…
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Learning about becoming a good product owner
I recently did a Certified Scrum Product Owner course (‘CSPO course’) facilitated by Gabrielle Benefield. Gabrielle is a very experienced product manager and agile specialist, who has worked closely with businesses and agile practitioners to establish agile development practices. Doing this course helped in driving home some of the key responsibilities of a good product owner:…
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Book review: “Implementing Lean Software Development”
Books like “Implementing Lean Software Development”, written by Mary and Tom Poppendieck, act as a good reminder of the principles behind Agile and Lean development practices. The book explains in great detail (and supported by relevant real-life examples) the main things that underpin an ‘iterative development approach’. In some of my previous blog posts I concentrated…
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Book review: “Requirements by collaboration”
I guess I’m not alone when I say that a large number of the workshops that I’ve facilitated in the past have been based on gut feel and some sort of practical, logical approach to getting the desired outcomes. It was therefore good to read “Requirements by collaboration”. Agile practitioner Ellen Gottesdiener published this book in…
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