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Arto Kiiskinen

Arto Kiiskinen

Arto is a Leading Product Owner Coach with 20 years of experience in leading R&D activities both in large and small organizations, in many different roles. He is now committed to training and coaching product owners to become better at their work. He is also CSPO, PSPO, PSM, and ISTQB certified.

From Arto Kiiskinen

A good team is curious, and this is how you build a curious team

Your team cannot be successful (or Agile) if it is not curious and always wants ...

Superman in the team: make your retrospectives more exciting

You need to hold retrospectives regularly, so make sure you don't bore your team ...

How to avoid clogging up your Kanban with too much Work in Progress

If you have too many work items at any stage of your Kanban board, that can have ...

A quick start guide to acceptance criteria for user stories

Without acceptance criteria, your user stories become become vague and hard to u ...

How to double the speed of your retrospectives

Retrospectives are crucial. They are where you find better ways of working. But ...

Make effort estimates you can actually trust - by removing anchoring bias

When estimating the effort required for an Agile work item: this is how you avoi ...

The cost of moving from Scrum to Kanban: with freedom you need discipline

To many, Kanban looks a lot easier than Scrum. But effective Kanban take even mo ...

”I will add it to the backlog” – The Product Owner’s biggest lie

Deal with incoming product requests properly, rather than habitually adding them ...

Fix mystery bugs through problem solving like Sherlock Holmes

When you are faced with a mystery bug - one that doesn't seem to have a root cau ...