Scrum Product Owner Roles and Responsibilities
Depending on how you look at it, the product owner on a Scrum team wields all the power… or next to none of it.
Product Owner Innovation: An Integral Role for Delivering Your Product to Market
This post is one of a three part series on Scrum roles and their part in innovation. Learn how the product owner uses a north star of business value to guide what gets built.
How the ScrumMaster Helps Create a Better Alignment Between Innovation Goals and Business Needs
The ScrumMaster is a vital role in every Scrum team. Here's how ScrumMasters are able to help you achieve innovation success and business value.
The Parking Lot: An Unofficial Scrum Ceremony
When your Daily Scrum is only 15 minutes, how do you best address impediments that the team is facing or is foreseeing? Enter the Parking Lot.
10 Most Critical Software Innovation Practices
How do the best firms drive software innovation? Check out the ten most critical factors we observe as companies champion themselves into the world of rapid software innovation.
The Business Value of Test-Driven Development
We often hear the engineers discussing terms such as test-driven development (TDD), unit tests and code coverage. What does that all really mean, and how does it translate to business value for your company?
Scrum Ceremonies: The Blueprint to a Highly Effective Sprint
Scrum ceremonies are designed to facilitate communication and planning while maintaining the team’s focus on productivity and efficiency. In this post, we’ll look at how they keep your development team locked in and on track.
Scaling Agile: Theory & Execution
Large companies solve large, complex problems. And with lots of people working on the same or similar problems, there’s a need to organize and coordinate activities. Is scaling agile possible?
How Using Checklists for Software Development Help Agile Teams Deliver More Business Value
Process documentation is incredibly useful but it can get lengthy. Learn how we use supporting checklists to help a team member navigate each aspect of our Scrum projects.
Shipping Early Helps You Adapt To Change
The Agile Manifesto states: "Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software." Here we discuss how shipping early empowers agile development teams to adapt to changes in order to meet that priority.
Scrum Ceremonies: A Key Way to Meet Your Business Goals
There are four types of Scrum ceremonies. This interview with one of our Ascendle Product Owners breaks down each of them for us.
User Story Acceptance Criteria
User stories are a critical element of the agile software development process. But they’re so different from traditional software requirement documents that many Scrum teams struggle to get them right.