Why Practice 2: Build in Small Batches
In a lot of ways, I think that Practice 2–Build in Small Batches, from Beyond Legacy Code, is the core practice that made agile and Scrum great. I was breaking down my software projects into smaller pieces as early as the 1980s. I didn’t call it agile back then. In fact, I was a bit …
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Read MoreSupport Refactoring
I’d like to conclude this series of blog posts on Seven Strategies for Product Owners with a final strategy that often gets overlooked on development teams but is vitally important: support refactoring. Sometimes Product Owners resist the team’s desire to refactor because they don’t get any new features after refactoring but often times refactoring is …
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Read MoreRemove Dependencies
One key characteristic of great Product Owners is that they help remove dependencies whenever the team encounters them. Dependencies can show up in many different forms. Our team may need some code from another team in our company, but the other team hasn’t yet built it for us. Or one feature that we may have …
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Read MoreAnswer Questions Quickly
One of the most important skills for a Product Owner is to answer questions quickly, which means that they have to really know their product and understand WHY it’s needed, WHAT’s needed, and WHO it’s for. Developers have to dive deep when they’re writing software and they come up with questions that non-developers may never …
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