PO Role: Most have it ⛔️WRONG when it comes to the PO role

There’s a widespread belief that the Product Owner handles writing user stories (partly true), and helps the team clarify requirements. That’s not right! At least, not the whole truth, not even the most important tasks for PO’s. There’s a much more important aspect of the PO role, that has nothing to do with User Stories, …

Estimates anchor (limit!) benefits while not limiting costs! – a #NoEstimates blog post about value delivery

Estimation and estimates are a dreadful way to run a business. The basic idea is this: Estimates anchor benefits while not limiting your costs at all. Let’s look at this statement in parts. The second part (“estimates don’t limit costs”), is self-evident. Anyone looking at the track record of software projects will see the evidence. …