I want to invite you to watch a lecture about mobile application manufacturing process. In this lecture, I will focus on the commercial aspects of the whole process.
It is quite often that I am afraid of things I have to do. And what is even worse I start acting as a firewall – I am busy!!! I am very busy!!! I do not have time!!! I become the slave of my calendar and ToDo list. Even more, there are sometimes tasks that I do not want to do and I am not obliged to do. In such situation, effectiveness became an issue… There are a lot of small matters to do, and there is no time for bigger and more serious ones. Sometimes at the end of [...]
Human, an animal that is adjusted to live in pack. Some of us can deny this statement but we are not able to live alone. We are always looking for other people society, acceptance and belonging. The reason is very simple – our life is easier in pack. Group allows us to solve problems faster and maybe what is more important it allows us also to survive during last centuries. And probably we will not win with our evolution. Have you thought about how many times your decision have been driven by your instincts. They are taking control from us [...]
Win-win term is connected to game theory and it means such game ending when both sides of competition gains something. In such situation there will be two winners and no losers. We can use the same approach when we are trying to define contract between customer and Scrum team. In most cases customers would like to get final project estimation before signing a contract. There is also second type of agreement, so called time and material. In this type of contract customer pays for time spend by the contractor’s employees to perform the work. Sometimes customers do not like such [...]
As you probably noticed title is a Scrum user story template. It allows you to identify three very important elements: [mark]user[/mark] whose business need will be satisfied [mark]functionality[/mark] which will be developed [mark]business value[/mark] which will be provided. It seems that writing uses stories is very easy but it is not. You can make a mistake easily. Please try to remind yourself how often you had seen the following stories: [quote align=”left”]As a user… As a product owner…[/quote] Many of us can say that those are quite normal user stories. But please try to look at them from other perspective. Please [...]
