Scrum

Explore product owner anti-patterns and how to avoid these bad practices. Here are simple solutions to prevent common anti-patterns in product ownership.

Platinum Edge now offers Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) as a live instructor-led online class. Although we are postponing our in-person private and public certification classes during the COVID-19 pandemic, we are temporarily offering them online.

As organization’s begin playing scrum, staffing a new team with full-time, fully-dedicated people can be challenging.  One of the key roles you’ll want to get right, is the scrum master. This article will discuss why a full-time, fully-dedicated scrum master role is critical for a new team. 

What are your agile questions? Whether it’s transitioning from traditional project management, managing vendor contracts, estimation and more, Mr. Agile® has answers. Today’s blog post answers the question: “What is the career path for the scrum master?” Mr. Agile® says, “The career path of the scrum master isn’t necessarily that different than…”

What are your agile questions? Whether it’s transitioning from traditional project management, managing vendor contracts, estimation and more, Mr. Agile® has answers. Today’s blog post answers the question: “What is the best way to utilize a small team with oversight of multiple products?” Mr. Agile® says, “This is a very common challenge. The main thing that we’re looking for…”

Spurring this unprecedented growth are benefits from scrum — an agile framework designed to help team members adapt to creative challenges while delivering top-notch value. Today, we’re sharing a scrum overview, focusing our attention on how it’s updating and transforming the city of Sacramento into far more than the state capital.

The most successful product deliveries involve customer-focused business and technical people working together daily throughout the discovery and development of the product. Strong product ownership is what drives this. Scrum is an effective framework for aligning what we traditionally have referred to as the “two sides of the organization–IT and the business.” 

What are your agile questions? Whether it’s transitioning from traditional project management, managing vendor contracts, estimation and more, Mr. Agile® has answers. Today’s blog post answers the question: “Where does a business analyst fit on a scrum team?” Mr. Agile® says, “There is no role called business analyst on a scrum team. There’s a…”

Platinum Edge is excited to be a Exhibitor Sponsor at Sacramento’s Government Summit 2019.

What are your agile questions? Whether it’s transitioning from traditional project management, managing vendor contracts, estimation and more, Mr. Agile® has answers. Today’s blog post answers the question: “Do defects exist for scrum teams?” Mr. Agile® says, “Defects exist for scrum teams. The difference under a scrum model is that we’re going to fully build…”

What are your agile questions? Whether it’s transitioning from traditional project management, managing vendor contracts, estimation and more, Mr. Agile® has answers. Today’s blog post answers the question: “How do you include manual testing in scrum?” Mr. Agile® says, “The first question I would ask is: Why are you doing the manual testing?…”

What are your agile questions? Whether it’s transitioning from traditional project management, managing vendor contracts, estimation and more, Mr. Agile® has answers. Today’s blog post answers the question: “Can scrum teams change their sprint length?” Mr. Agile® says, “They can but it isn’t free…”