Good Scrum Masters Don’t Have Boring Meetings
If you are headed back into the office soon, you might have to face the dreaded in-person Boring Meeting. Here are some basic tips to fight back.
What We Learned from Our Product Owner Test
We’ve learned a few things since we built a Certified Scrum Product Owner test. Some results you’d expect, but there are plenty of surprises...
The Scrum Master Exam Questions You’re Most Likely to Get Wrong
After observing several thousand current and potential ScrumMasters take our Certified ScrumMaster practice exam, we’ve learned what’s most likely to trip you up when you take the real test.
Collaboration Frameworks for Product Owners & Agile Coaches
Looking to change up your Retrospective so that it is not so boring? Need a way to engage with your stakeholders so that the HiPPOs don't always dominate? Well, today you are in luck...
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.
Product Owners vs Product Managers: How to Spot the Difference
What's the difference between Product Owners and product managers? Because we offer certified training for both roles, and we consult with organizations that use many development frameworks, we get this question all the time.
Maximizing Software Product Profitability
While there are many great resources for understanding and documenting a business model, few give deep insight on maximizing software product profitability.
The Modern Definition of Product Manager
Ask a veteran Product Manager how they got into the field and how they became an expert. They’ll probably tell you it was luck and a lot of trial and error. We’re aiming to fix that.
Short Definition of Scrum
I was inspired by tweet I saw highlighting Peter Stevens' post discussing the essence of Scrum. Here is my description of Scrum without any of our jargon. "Scrum is a framework for Teams to get work done. Every activity, ritual and artifact found in Scrum enables the team to provide ...
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How to Create Competitive Battlecards
Competitive Battlecards distill a product manager’s insights on customers and competition into a single page that the sales team can use. This article offers the templates and tools you need to create your own.