Archive for category scrum

Chickens, Pigs & Seagulls

Posted by David Bland in agile, scrum on June 10, 2009

Those of you with Scrum & Agile experience are probably familiar with the following story: A chicken and a pig are together when the chicken says, “Let’s start a restaurant!”. The pig thinks it over and says, “What would we call this restaurant?” The chicken says, “Ham n’ Eggs!” The pig says, “No thanks, I’d [...]

chicken, pig, seagull

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My Response to the V1 Blog

Posted by David Bland in agile, lean, scrum on May 11, 2009

My comment over on the V1 Blog is pending moderation, but I wanted to expand upon it here in the meantime. You could run an Agile / Scrum / Kanban project to flawless execution and it could still result in waste. You could be achieving failure in an extremely efficient manner due to no customer [...]

agile, kanban, scrum, version one

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Is Your Product Owner Missing In Action?

Posted by David Bland in agile, scrum on May 6, 2009

I’ve experienced a wide range of Product Owners who’ve graced the presence of my Scrum projects. Some were engaging and always ready to answer questions at a moment’s notice, and others were, shall we say, not. I’ve recently conceded that more often than not my Product Owner is MIA. So instead ousting the Product Owner [...]

agile, mia, product owner, scrum

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