The PO and SM: A Match Made in Agile

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Every year as the middle of February approaches, our world is taken over by little red hearts, cherubic cupids hoisting arrows and foil wrapped drugstore chocolates. The heavily scented fragrance of Valentine’s Day is in the air. For us at 3Back, even though the holiday has come and gone, our thoughts turn to partnerships that stand the test of time; a Scrummy yin and yang where complementary forces interact to create something great. We think we found it.

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Product Owner Riddle

I posed the following Riddle to the Scrum Trainers, and got some interesting answers, so I thought I’d pose it to everybody, and see what you think. Based on the current Scrum Guide, which you can find here, the following ‘rules’ are all true: Every Scrum Team has a Product Owner, Each Product Backlog is…

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How is Backlog used?

The word backlog is used in scrum to describe two kinds of work. Work we are doing now “Sprint Backlog” and work we might…

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