Agile and Scrum
The Alignment-to-Value Pipeline: Building Products That Matter
TL;DR: The Alignment-to-Value Pipeline Effective product development requires both strategic alignment and healthy Product Backlog management. Misalignment leads to backlog…
AI in Agile Product Teams: Insights from Deep Research and What It Means for Your Practice
TL; DR: AI in Agile Product Teams I have been interested in how artificial intelligence as an emerging technology may…
Join the AI for Agile Practitioners Survey — Why We Need Your Insights
TL; DR: Join the AI for Agile Practitioners Survey As AI tools become increasingly integrated into our work, agile practitioners…
Hands-on Agile 2025: Embracing the Shift to Context-Based Agility — The Slides
TL; DR: The Slides of Hands-on Agile 2025 If you weren't at the virtual Hands-on Agile 2025 conference earlier this…
Psychological Safety: Misunderstood, Yet Mission-Critical
TL; DR: Psychological Safety as a Competitive Edge Psychological safety isn’t about fluffy “niceness”—it is the foundation of agile teams…
The Great Agile Reset: Moving Beyond Frameworks in the Age of AI
TL; DR: Moving Beyond Agile Frameworks in the Agile Reset Remember my article from six months ago about reinventing Hands-on…
Stop Shipping Waste: How to Align Teams and Finally Fix Your Product Backlog
TL;DR: Stop Shipping Waste When product teams fail to establish stakeholder alignment and implement rigorous Product Backlog management, they get…
Forensic Product Backlog Analysis — A New Team Exercise
TL; DR: Forensic Product Backlog Analysis Exercise The Forensic Product Backlog Analysis: A 60-minute team exercise to fix your Backlog.…
Is the Era of the Scrum Master Coming to an End?
TL; DR: Three Data Points Pointing to the Decline of the Scrum Master’s Role If you hang out in the…
Can Pure Scrum Actually Work?
TL; DR: Pure Scrum? Can you rely on pure Scrum to transform your organization and deliver value? Not always. While…