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Overruling the Product Owner?

There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Since Scrum is an intentionally incomplete framework with a reasonable yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone. For example, what if the stakeholders (who bring the budget that is funding your Scrum team) insist on calling the shots by overruling the Product Owner’s prerogative to define the composition and the ordering the Product Backlog? What if your stakeholders suffer from the “my budget, my feature” syndrome?

Join me and delve into the effects of overruling the Product Owner in less than 140 seconds.

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Estimates Can Impede Agile Development, Here’s How to Budget

The initial stages of the Agile software development journey can be exciting. It’s a time of possibility and experimentation.

But these feelings start to wane when stakeholders try to figure out the cost of getting the project from 0 to 100. The team might want to play with a couple of automation tools, but they require an extra set of expert hands. Or there’s some research worth stretching out, but that means more data and more man-hours.