by Paul | Jun 23, 2015 | Value-Focused Agile
The Scrum Guide says that the Product Owner is responsible for “Ordering the items in the Product Backlog to best achieve goals and missions” and “Optimizing the value of the work the Development Team performs”. Scrum allows Product Owners to...
by Paul | Mar 24, 2015 | Value-Focused Agile
A key principle of Agile is responding to change over following a plan. But that can leave us at the mercy of constantly changing opinions and at risk of losing sight of what matters for our business. How can we make Agile planning and prioritisation transparent, fast...
by Paul | Feb 9, 2015 | Value-Focused Agile
What is Agile? Several years ago, I was given the job of “looking after” Agile for a 10,000 person IT organisation. There were thousands of systems and projects. We knew that a large proportion of projects were Agile because our enterprise architects had...
by Paul | Jan 20, 2015 | Value-Focused Agile
At the beginning of the year, senior managers start sending their organisational and departmental objectives to staff. I remember receiving these objectives and, as a good corporate citizen, wondering what I could do to contribute. Despite my best intentions, I ended...
by Paul | Sep 8, 2014 | Value-Focused Agile
When organisations only talk about reducing costs or increasing revenue, it’s easy to undervalue the critical work of many of your people. It can lead to losing good people and making costly mistakes in the business. In this article we’ll see how...
by Paul | Sep 5, 2014 | Value-Focused Agile
In most organisations there is a desire to know the value of work in terms of the “bottom line” and people talk about increasing revenue or reducing costs. However, there are four categories of financial value and, without understanding all of them,...
