Brad Storm at MIT Sloan

One of the least mentioned roles, but an important support character, can and should in fact be the leading actor in an agile project. After all, the product owner is calling the shots. And a simple decision from a product owner can mean hundreds of working hours avoided, or added, to a project. A product owner can be a teams best friend of fiercest foe. Here’s a mock-up on successful product ownership:

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I just came across this video that just made sense. Like all agile evangelist I buy into the test driven development. And like most people I find myself trading between the amount of extra work of writing tests to the actual code and implementation of the task at hand. Other issues are where to put the tests and how to organize these tests. But behavior driven development gave me some answers:

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