…even tell you the story about the weekend I blew a million dollars of HP's money and I was forgiven, but you'll have to come to a conference talk for that. So that was just like a great experience. And… Brian (04:32) Wow. Bernie Maloney (04:39) After that experience, I…

…has requested. By contrast, story-writing workshops are when the product owner, stakeholders, and team brainstorm what functionality the customer needs most. By the end of sprint planning, the team selects how much work they can do in the coming sprint. The product owner does not get to say, “We have…

…(or “sprint backlog items”). Story points are assigned to iteration backlog items. (p. 189 and 230) This stems from the fundamental misunderstanding above. Software cannot be released during an iteration. (page 194 and 233) The book takes the 1995 view of Scrum that software is only releasable at the end…

…planning with use case points. Similar in concept to function points, use case points measure the size of an application. Once we know the approximate size of an application, we can derive an expected duration for the project if we also know (or can estimate) the team’s rate of progress.…

…user stories, estimating with story points and agile estimating and planning. You can even get coaching on user story-writing workshops. Training for Product Owners Scrum Certification for Product Owners Product Owner Skill-Building Courses User Story-Writing Workshops Product Owner vs Project Manager Some POs and Scrum Masters come from a project…

…from the locus of points that trace out the points on the ECC curves as they shift with learning over time. If one wants to plan to minimize the total expected cost of change when learning takes place by minimizing the area under the Composite ECC line, it is now…