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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…