Published in Dev Genius·6 days agoThe Art of Crafting a Compelling Product Vision: 3 Desirable Qualities to Unifying and Inspiring Your TeamProduct Vision as Great Story I just finished holding my first sprint planning 2 weeks ago. And I followed the tips on the book to profile the status quo of the current products, which was important but often ignored. In the Scrum guide, it indicates a product owner should be preparing product backlogs, ordering requirements…Agile5 min readAgile5 min read
Published in Dev Genius·Mar 10Uncovering the Essential Qualities of a Successful Product Owner: Insights and ReflectionsA Series of Reflections As I keep reading the book, I feel a successful product owner actually needs assistance from his Scrum team as well as sponsorship at the right level, or he might be frustrated with building relationship with development teams and stakeholders. And then products fail as predicted. I primarily work more…Agile5 min readAgile5 min read
Published in Dev Genius·Feb 24Facing 6 Odd Types of Product Owners in Agile TeamsProduct Owner is An Important Role As a Scrum Master, I’ve aided several project managers to improve working processes by integrating the Scrum framework. As per my experience, not all Scrum teams I had worked with could take agile methodologies into their daily work, and I found a role: Product Owner, matters. And the feeling got…Agile5 min readAgile5 min read
Published in Dev Genius·Feb 10How Your Team Structure Can Make or Break Your Software Project: The Difference Between Feature Teams and Component TeamsAgile Mindset Transformation These days I was reading a classic book: Agile Product Management with Scrum, which was published by a well-known product manager in Silicon Valley, Roman Pichler. As a Scrum Master, I knew in the Scrum Guide it merely indicated some fundamental principles instead of practices to abide by. …Feature Team5 min readFeature Team5 min read
Published in Dev Genius·Jan 27A Scrum Master is Not A (Technical) Project ManagerAn Annoying Myth Well, for most Taiwanese people we all know that on some job boards they might require a candidate to have multiple skills that meet their criteria. I really appreciate those who have talented capabilities to create values for a company. …Scrum Master4 min readScrum Master4 min read
Published in Dev Genius·Jan 13The 3rd Scrum Training Retrospective — The Marshmallow ChallengeA Sincere Invitation I had been told to give a small talk regarding agile concepts to my boss since our HR manager hoped to transform the culture of team collaboration by inspiring members to be self-improved as well as self-organized. However, it is hard to influence a boss’ perspective as the concept usually…Marshmallow7 min readMarshmallow7 min read
Published in Bootcamp·Dec 30, 20222022 Retrospective & Next StepHero’s Journey — Chase the Only North Star 2022 is going to the end. Looking back to the post I wrote on 1/14 this year, I’ve achieved many milestones than I set up then. Of course, there must be something I did not fulfill due to certain reasons. …Retro9 min readRetro9 min read
Published in Dev Genius·Dec 16, 2022Reusable Pieces — The Component Diagram in UMLA Casual Talk with a CEO Last week I had an opportunity to have a lunch with a CEO and a project manager talking about how to enforce the Scrum framework in their current teams. …Components4 min readComponents4 min read
Published in Dev Genius·Dec 2, 2022God’s Vision — The Package Diagram in UMLGod’s Vision I remembered that there was a post published months ago describing the attributes of a complex system. One of them is “Relative Primitive”, which indicates there are different levels of abstraction from insights of viewers. Likewise, when we are tempting to describe the interactions among objects, it’s necessary to take…Object Oriented3 min readObject Oriented3 min read
Published in Dev Genius·Nov 18, 2022What is UML (Unified Modeling Language) Talking About?Are You Kidding? Well, I am serious when I decided to write something about UML (Unified Modeling Language). I guess some people might think it weird to talk about related topics since it seems fundamental to those who craft software. However, we should keep humble in front of any academic theories because even…Software Development4 min readSoftware Development4 min read
