As I have written I have my doubts about Agile and SCRUM, but will use it and try it out. Now we have started a new team with developers that I am product owner for. My intention is to time to time report here my observations and thoughts about it.
Yesterday the Sprint zero started with a planning meeting where the team committed to one story and tentatively committed to another. Hey are at the same time doing a lot of setup and induction so we don’t really know the teams velocity.
Today they started investigation the story they yesterday tentatively committed to. I guess that is a good sign. On today’s daily standup some progress was communicated. Before that I had answered a lot of question from our QA resource. Questions that was good.
So yes we are in the beginning of a journey here. But with a dedicated team I think we can make it work. The matter that we are 2 product owners at the moment for the same team is just a matter of coordination. The fact that we are spread in 2 continents and 3 countries just makes it interesting communication a must.
But if I can’t communicate I should not be a product manager, right?
As you can see we are started, and for me it’s a new start leaving waterfall behind and doing agile. Join me on the journey here on the blog and in my tweets. I will surely need input from all of those with more agile experience.
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