Best Links of the Week – Christmas 2009

Date: 2009.12.25 | Category: Agile, Coaching, Links of the Week, Product Owner, Scrum, ScrumMaster, Team

A bag full of Christmas links.

1. Grooming the Product Backlog – Laura Brandenburg talks about the role of requirements management through the Scrum Product Backlog.
2. Make the Product Backlog DEEP – more on good practices for maintaining the Product Backlog from Mike Cohn.
3. Why is Agile so Hard to Sell? – describes some of the issues growing Agile in the enterprise.
4. Is Scrum for Lazy Project Teams? – looks at the misconception that Scrum does not challenge teams to work their hardest.
5. When the Scrummaster Becomes the Impediment – different perspectives on how to solve the problem when the Scrummaster becomes a bottleneck.
6. A Day in the Life of a Scrum Team – a short 6-minute YouTube video of a Scrum Team in their native environment.
7. Agile Business Analysts – what is the role of the business analyst on an Agile team?
8. Building trust – five concrete things you can do to build trust on your teams.
9. Something in Agile Needs Fixing – Rob Bowley summarizes the Open Space discussion on the topic of “Agile isn’t solving our customers problems because they aren’t here.”

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