“the product owner in general first showed up with scrum”
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Scrum
By Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland
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MentionsProduct management theater
“even though scrum a lot of people don't even understand simple processes like scrum”
“you won't see me saying like oh we need to use like this scrum thing or that kanban thing”
MentionsThe nature of product
“it's as ridiculous as taking somebody off the street and saying i'm going to teach you scrum”
“i try to tell teams that you know started with scrum or started with some of these more dogmatic processes”
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