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What is a Product Owner? Overview of Key Responsibilities
Lately, we have been talking about the different roles on a scrum team. Another important scrum role is the product owner. The product owner is the most difficult to equate to a specific traditional project management role, and is therefore sometimes the most...
What is a Scrum Team?
Scrum projects have a number of teams, and that can be confusing. Let's clear this up. Scrum has three main roles: The scrum master, who helps protect the team from distractions and clear impediments The product owner, who makes decisions about product features and...
The Agile Litmus Test
To be agile you need to be able to ask, โIs this agile?โ If youโre ever in doubt about whether a particular process, practice, tool or approach adheres to the Agile Manifesto or the 12 Agile Principles, refer to the following list of questions: Does what weโre doing...
Recap of Quarterly LAAPLN Meeting & Book Signing on June 6th, 2012 in Santa Monica
Recap of the LAAPLN Quarterly Meeting and book signing event in Santa Monica featuring Agile experts and industry insights.
What is a Scrum Master? 6 Key Roles to Know
Scrum is one of the most popular agile project management frameworks today. It has three roles: the product owner, the development team and the scrum master. The scrum master is responsible for ensuring the proper environment for the development team, clearing...
Platinum Edge Principal Mark C. Layton Releases Book ‘Agile Project Management for Dummies’
Agile Project Management for Dummies, by Mark C. Layton, Certified Scrum Trainer, is the first book to provide a simple, step-by-step guide to agile project management approaches, tools, and techniques. Agile project management is one of the fastest-growing management...
Top 5 Reasons Companies Become Agile
Ninety-five percent of companies are adopting agile approaches for building products (according to the 10th Annual State of Agile Report). Industries outside of software now make up the majority. Companies want to become agile because agile values and principles:...
