SPaMCAST 444 - Product Owner - The Hard Role, QA Value, Work In Process Limits

Published: May 28, 2017, 9 p.m.

b'This week\\u2019s Software Process and Measurement Cast features our essay revisiting the product owner role. The product owner role is hard, often messed up and a great opportunity for improvement. The second column features the return of Steve Tendon talking about Tame The Flow: Hyper-Productive Knowledge-Work Performance, The TameFlow Approach and Its Application to Scrum and Kanban published J Ross (). We tackle Chapter 17 which is titled Challenges of Work-State Work in Process Limits. WIP limits have their plusses and minuses when discussing hyper-productivity. \\xa0 Our third column this week is from Jeremy Berriault. Jeremy discusses how to show the value of QA and why knowing and showing value is important! \\xa0\\xa0Jeremy \\xa0blogs at \\xa0 \\xa0 Re-Read Saturday News This week we tackle Chapter 6 of : The New Management System for a Rapidly Changing World by published by Henry Holt and Company in 2015. \\xa0\\xa0, puts the ideas and processes defined in to work. Catch up on the first four entries in the re-read Visit the to participate in this and previous re-reads. \\xa0 A Call To Action If you got a new idea this week while listening to the podcast, please give the SPaMCAST a short, honest review in iTunes. \\xa0Reviews help guide people to the cast! Next SPaMCAST SPaMCAST 445 features the return of a favorite, Capers Jones. \\xa0Capers and I talked about his new book, A Guide to Selecting Software Measures and Metrics. As usual, Capers was engaging, educational and controversial. \\xa0Spending time with Capers is always worthwhile! Shameless Ad for my book! co-authored by Murali Chematuri and myself and published by J. Ross Publishing. We have received unsolicited reviews like the following: \\u201cThis book will prove that software projects should not be a tedious process, for you or your team.\\u201d Support SPaMCAST by buying the book nglish and Chinese.'