The Product Owner (PO) is the Agile team member primarily responsible for maximizing the value delivered by the team by ensuring that the team backlog is aligned with customer and stakeholder needs.
Test– Ensure an artifact’s quality and performance Deploy– Where applicable, deploy increments of value Figure 1. Agile teams are cross-functional Agile Teams Contain Two Specialty Roles Agile teams have two specialty roles. TheProduct Ownerdefines Stories (along with other team members) and prio...
Dr. Wolfgang Brandhuber has been a Scrum Developer, Product Owner, Scrum Master, Chief Scrum Master, and Agile Head Coach in various Agile environments. His passion is large solutions. Since the advent of the large solution level in the Scaled Agile Framework in 2016, he has set up and hel...
I’ve been a SAFe® Product Owner (PO) for two years and I’ve learned that showing up well in this role is more than just a skill set you build. It becomes an art that deserves practice, consideration, professional development, and your authentic personality.As a PO of a very busy...
Create a community of practice around the competencies and practices. In the latest Leading by Example module that Scaled Agile released, one of the beautiful outcomes was a cohort that trusted each other and was willing to share their deepest challenges with authenticity. This type of network pro...
Unit Testing and Test-Driven DevelopmentThe unit testing practice breaks the code into parts and ensures that each part has automated tests to exercise it. These tests run automatically after each change and allow developers to make fast changes, confident that the modification won’t break another...
During this two-day course, attendees will gain an in-depth understanding of the ART, how it delivers value, and what they can do to effectively perform their role using Scrum, Kanban, and XP.Build the skills needed to become a high-performing team member of an Agile Release Train (ART)...
While Kanban is generally less specific on team roles than Scrum, SAFe applies the same two special Agile team roles as defined in ScrumXP. These roles —the Product Owner and the Scrum Master—have emerged in practice as being equally helpful to SAFe Kanban teams (Figure 3)....
Gregg Boer is a principal program manager at Microsoft. Gregg is the product owner for the Agile management experience provided by Azure DevOps and on-premises TFS. Kathryn Elliott is a senior technical writer at Microsoft. Susan Ferrell is a senior technical writer and a Visual Studio ALM Rang...
15 Agile Release Trains (ARTs). We agreed that we wouldn’t run assessments for 15 ARTs because we wanted to start small and test the process first. Therefore, we picked four ARTs to pilot the assessments and only undertake the Team and Technical Agility and Agile Product Delivery assessments...