Agile storytelling

Agile storytelling — an overview of blog posts

A comprehensive list of all agile related blog posts written by Peter Merrick Ph.D

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The Agile Organization as a … triangle

Agile is cool. Agile is hot. It’s cool and hot. (You know what I mean.)

It’s about building software. It’s a way for developers to organize themselves in a team, in a scrum, in a huddle. Scrum is popular. The definition is simple even…

The Bullsh*t Jargon of ‘Team’

What does it mean to be a ‘team player’? Are you one? Am I? Surely it depends on the team. Is it a real team, or wishful thinking? Perhaps we need to distinguish between an effective team and a dysfunctional one.

A Product Owner’s View on Technical Debt

Fixing technical debt is not sexy. It doesn’t feature highly on anybody’s ‘to do’ list. I wouldn’t wake up in the morning and think ‘oh, great I have some technical debt to fix.’ I wouldn’t be fantastically happy if a engineer comes to me and says ‘we can’t…

Guerilla Competitor Analysis for Product Owners

Who’s the competition, and how good are their products? Everybody needs to know that. But how do you do it from a Product Owner perspective? The Product Management community have their own ideas about this, but we’re not going to recycle that…

One Product Owner’s View on UML

UML. What is it? It’s the Unified Modeling Language. Why’s it called that? Because there were three modeling experts (in British English also known as ‘bods’) who, with the advent of OO (Object Oriented), all were working on diagrams and modeling notation, that had a…

A Product Owner’s View on Marketing

I should probably warn you that this is a deeply personal view of the way things work. I can’t support any of it with science. Be warned.

If you’ve got a market, then you’ve got marketing. In the past, we just had engineers and marketing…

Storytelling — the hottest new topic that’s as old as we are

Have there ever been more beautiful words than “Let me tell you a story”? This is what parents say to children. This is what a book or a movie says with its title.

The Myth of the Self-Organizing Team

Imagine a software company that’s pretty profitable, and been going for a number of years. They’ve got a nice little niche product and things have been pretty sweet. But times change. Let’s say that their product was client/server and now they want to put the whole…