Is the Product Owner Part of Business or Part of IT?
Is the product owner part of business or part of IT? We share some thoughts to consider when figuring out how to pick the Product Owner.
Why We Created a Scrum Product Owner Exam
For many years, our Certified Scrum Product Owner students have asked why the Scrum Alliance does not offer an assessment for students completing their CSPO courses. This post explains why there is no exam today and the steps we took to create an exam that students can use to assess their knowledge.
Impediments Backlog: The Key to Overcoming Agile Obstacles
Impediments can slow down your Scrum team, or on a larger scale, block your organization’s Agile adoption. Here are four practical steps you can use to remove impediments and stay on track.
How to Build a Customer Journey Map
The Customer Journey Map is a critical part of your Product Playbook. In this step-by-step guide, we explain how it can help you and how to build one.
What’s Missing from Product Management Certification Programs?
Business leaders want a fast way to retrain and upskill their product managers so they have a common approach and philosophy for their specific business. We provide a rundown of the pros and cons of existing options, and give you our own distinctive program which meets those goals, and more.
Four Helpful Hints to Avoid Agile Adoption Stall-Out
Moving from the Waterfall Mindset to the Agile Mindset can easily stall out. Here are four critical concepts to keep your Agile Adoption on track.
Four Reasons to Invest in Advanced Scrum Training
Everybody’s busy and it’s easy to become complacent, but existing CSMs and CSPOs may want to consider a few reasons to crack open the books again and get some advanced Scrum training.
How to Build a Product Roadmap
Effective product ownership is harder than it looks. In this essay we provide a step-by-step guide on how to develop a product roadmap, a key part of product ownership success.
CSM Practice Exam: Update for 2020
Frequently, learners in our Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) courses have questions about the CSM exam: How do I prepare? So, we set out to create a practice test, written by actual Certified Scrum Trainers (CSTs), with current content, which helps you gauge your readiness for the exam.
Two Fast Retrospective Techniques
Ever in need of a quick framework to facilitate a fast Retrospective? Here are my two favorites Retrospective frameworks that you can use in any Sprint Retrospective or at the end of any meeting - so that your next meeting will be more perfect, of course - that will provide ...
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