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Agile and Scrum

Product Team Empowerment Anti-Patterns

TL; DR: Product Team Empowerment Anti-Patterns Leadership anti-patterns often undermine product team empowerment — an essential success factor in Marty…

The Inverted MoSCoW Framework: Stop Building What You Do Not Need

TL;DR: Inverted MoSCoW The inverted MoSCoW framework reverses traditional prioritization, focusing on what a product team won’t build rather than…

Why Leaders Believe the Product Operating Model Will Succeed Where Agile Initiatives Failed

TL; DR: Why Leaders Support the Product Operating Model Despite Agile’s Failure Why might leaders turn to the Product Operating…

Product Washing: The Pitfalls of a Superficial Product Operating Model Transformation

TL; DR: Product Washing By all means, the “Product Operating Model” (POM) has surged in popularity, especially among traditional organizations…

Hands-on Agile #64: Mastering Work Intake w/ Jeremy Willets and Tom Cagley

TL; DR: Mastering Work Intake: The Key to Sustainability and Flow — Hands-on Agile #64 How do you deal with…

Product Owner Anti-Patterns — 33 Ways to Improve as a PO

TL; DR: Product Owner Anti-Patterns No other role in Scrum can contribute to mediocre outcomes like the Product Owner—garbage in,…

Ditch the Unfinished Action Items: How to Make Retrospectives Lead to Real Change

TL; DR: Unfinished Action Items: How to Make Retrospectives Useful If your team consistently creates action items during Retrospectives but…

Join the Scrum Master Salary Report 2025 — Let Us Create Transparency

TL;DR: Scrum Master Salary Report 2025 — An Anonymous Poll by the Community for the Community The purpose of this anonymous…

Transformation to Agile Primitives: Rebuilding Agility from the Ground Up

TL;DR: A Guide to Escape Agile Framework Fatigue Undergoing a transformation to Agile Primitives from a botched [insert your failed…

Agile Primitives — Beyond Frameworks

TL;DR: Agile Primitives Are we losing sight of what truly matters in Agile? The future isn’t about rigidly adhering to…