I’m going to talk about how best-selling novels turn movies or TV series is an important lesson to those in the IT industry. There was an article a read many years ago, to be honest, I searched and can’t find it to be able to reference. The article, in 50 words was; a best-selling author was talking about the movie that was created on her book. She commented about how it differed from the book, parts of the book were represented differently in the movie, and the casting, alth

Choosing the proper person to be the Product Owner on your team is a critical factor to success. Scrum.org explains a Product Owner “is responsible for maximizing the value of the product resulting from the work of the Development Team”. A Product Owner needs to be an expert at what you’re building. Not an expert in the technology the application is being built in, not an expert in your organization, but a subject matter expert in what your application does. The value it prov

A Scrum Master needs to KNOW scrum. They are on the hook to ensure you follow it, to ensure your teams understands why, to ensure road blocks are cleared in an Agile manner, as opposed to taking steps backwards away from Agile and more towards Waterfall. If you're investing in Agile/Scrum, do it right. Many organizations who implement Scrum just hand the title of Scrum Master off to someone within the team. In some cases this is ok, but remember, a Scrum Master is supposed to