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Empathy & Economics: The Product Owner’s Core
In most traditional organizations, there seems to be a gaping void between the team building the product and the customers using or requesting it. This gap is being exacerbated by organizations seeking to create and enforce multi-layer interfaces between the customer and the team members, while also creating committees and multi-step processes for making decisions […]
Posted in: Scrum Roles & Responsibilities
5 Ways To Revive Stale Retrospectives
May 10, 2012
Recovering from a series of stale Retrospectives is not easy. People tend to become very cynical, very quickly when they get bored or when they believe their time is being wasted. For that reason, to break these people out of their Retrospective funk, you need to shake things up a bit. There is an endless […]
Posted in: Agile Methods, Scrum Practices
Retrospective Rebuttals Dispelled
May 9, 2012
I have a fundamental belief that Retrospectives are far and away the most important component of the Scrum Framework and an activity that is universally valuable and applicable. Taking time to reflect on what has happened over a given period of time is an extraordinarily valuable exercise. The Retrospective is the team’s opportunity to identify experiments […]
Posted in: Agile Methods
Agile Immersion Day Employing Serious Play
May 3, 2012
I am a huge advocate of hands-on learning and avoid ‘death by slideshow’ training methods at all costs. So, when I was offered the opportunity to facilitate a full-day session on agile for the PMI, I proposed doing an Agile Immersion Day that would consist of a half-day of Serious Play. The PMI folks went for […]
Posted in: Training
What I’m Working On
May 1, 2012
I believe that making your intentions known is at the core of honesty; a trait which I value deeply. So, in the spirit of honesty, here is what I’m working on and what I am working towards. The activity that I have managed to keep at the top of my priority list is actively inspecting and […]
Posted in: About Me
Agile Sean 
August 9, 2012
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