New in 2024: Assessments, Practices, Exercises, and Tools to Help You Excel

December 17, 2023

TL; DR: Tools to Help You Excel in 2024 Having just completed the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book, I will turn…

How To Spot Successful Scrum Masters

December 10, 2023

TL; DR: How To Spot Successful Scrum Masters In this article, I unravel the secrets of what makes a Scrum…

Why Succeed When You Can Fail? A Guide to Missing Sprint Goals

December 4, 2023

TL; DR: Missing Sprint Goals Do you excel in the art of setting unattainable, imposed, or plain non-existing Sprint Goals?…

The Scrum Trap: How Unfit Practices Will Harm Return on Investment

November 27, 2023

TL, DR: The Scrum Trap Scrum is a purposefully incomplete framework. Consequently, it needs to be augmented with tools and…

Escaping the Feature Factory — Refocussing From Output to Outcome

November 20, 2023

TL; DR: Escaping the Feature Factory The feature factory fate is not inevitable; there is hope to avoid becoming a…

Overcoming Common Product Backlog Management Traps — David Pereira at the 54. Hands-on Agile

November 13, 2023

TL; DR: Overcoming Common Product Backlog Management Traps w/ David Pereira How teams manage their Product Backlog often makes or…

Illusion of Velocity — The Effect of Unsuitable Practices on Agility

November 6, 2023

TL; DR: The Illusion of Velocity In this article, I explore the pitfalls of 'The Illusion of Velocity' in agile…

Scrum Team Failure — Scrum Anti-Patterns Taxonomy (3)

October 29, 2023

TL; DR: Scrum Team Failure This post on Scrum team failure addresses three categories from the Scrum anti-patterns taxonomy that…

Saying No as a Product Owner or Product Manager

October 23, 2023

TL, DR: Saying No Without Burning Bridges Are you navigating the delicate art of saying No as a Product Owner…

An Agile Coaches Guide to Storytelling — Bob Galen at the 53. Hands-on Agile

October 16, 2023

TL; DR: Hands-on Agile #53: An Agile Coaches Guide to Storytelling with Bob Galen On September 5, 2023, we had…