Over-commitment
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Over-commitment

When I wrote the “Long time, no see” post in December I was planning to resume writing regularly (at least bi-weekly) but since then I’ve only managed one. I thought I would have some spare time that could be put towards it but other things got in the way. Does that sound familiar? How many…

Coaching backlog
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Coaching backlog

One challenge as a coach is deciding where to spend your time – do I help team A or team B or split my time between them? If I had the capacity to give both the attention they need then it’s not a problem but of course there’s never enough time to go round. Like…

Priorities Change
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Priorities Change

One of the Product Owner’s key responsibilities is to ensure the backlog (well, the top of it, at least) reflects the stakeholders’ priorities. Of course, the certainty of those priorities decreases the further out you try to look: we ought to be pretty confident in the priorities for the next couple of weeks, but less…