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Succeeding with Agile
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Succeeding with Agile

by Mike Cohn
October 2009
Intermediate to advanced
504 pages
15h 39m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Expectations About Involvement

One of the most important expectations to set early on is about involvement in the process. Many project stakeholders accustomed to traditional-style development view their role in a software development project as akin to dropping a car off for service: You tell someone what you need done and come back at an appointed time to pick up the finished work. Stakeholders, especially anyone in a product owner role, will need to understand that this is not the right way to build software-intensive products.

Be sure to discuss expectations with the product owner and with other stake-holders whose input and feedback you will solicit either during the sprints or during sprint reviews. Make sure that each stakeholder knows ...

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