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David Pereira

David Pereira

Product Coach, CEO, Head of Product, Book Author of "Untrapping Product Teams" and Keynote Speaker

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16 guides by David Pereira

Agile team dysfunction case study exercise

This exercise drops you into week two at a fast-scaling company with four contradictory quotes from an engineer, a QA...

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What Is Acceptance Criteria?

Acceptance criteria are the specific, testable conditions a piece of work must satisfy before it can be accepted as...

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What Is Backlog Refinement?

Backlog refinement is the ongoing activity of adding detail, sizing, and reordering items in a product backlog, so the...

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What Is Definition of Done?

A Definition of Done is a formal, shared description of the quality standards a piece of work has to meet before a team...

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What Is Kanban

Kanban is a visual method for managing work that focuses on limiting work in progress and maximizing flow rather than...

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What Is a Lean Canvas

A Lean Canvas is a one-page business model tool that breaks a startup idea into nine blocks, including problem...

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What Is Sprint Planning?

Sprint planning is the Scrum event that opens a sprint, where the team collaboratively defines a sprint goal and...

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What Is a Sprint Retrospective?

A sprint retrospective is the last event in a sprint, where the Scrum Team inspects how it worked, its people...

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What Is a Sprint Review?

A sprint review is a working session, not just a demo, where the Scrum Team presents finished work to stakeholders...

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What Is a Value Curve in Strategy

A value curve, also called a strategy canvas, is a chart that plots how much a company invests in each factor its...

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Backlog refinement best practices

Run backlog refinement weekly in a session separate from sprint planning, keep it to 30 to 60 minutes, and only bring...

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Product Owner Responsibilities in Scrum

A Product Owner's core responsibility in Scrum is owning and prioritizing the product backlog, turning strategy into...

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Product Owner vs Scrum Master

A Product Owner decides what the team builds, prioritizing the backlog and representing the customer's voice. A Scrum...

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Is the SAFe POPM certification worth it for product managers?

SAFe POPM is a real, actively used certification from Scaled Agile that costs a $395 exam fee plus a required training...

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Best Agile Resources for Product Managers

This is the agile reading list Builders Camp's Beyond Agile bootcamp points members to: the manifesto, David Pereira's...

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How to Write a Good User Story

A good user story follows the format 'As a [user], I want [goal], so that [reason],' passes the INVEST checklist...

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