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Agile and Scrum

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

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

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

Escaping the Feature Factory

TL; DR: Escaping the Feature Factory — Refocussing From Output to Outcome The feature factory fate is not inevitable; there…

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

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

The Illusion of Velocity — The Effect of Unsuitable Practices on Agility

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)

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

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

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

Should We Change Scrum?

TL; DR: Can We Or Should We Change Scrum? Can we or should we change Scrum, or is it a…

Minimum Viable Library (3) — Agile Leadership Edition

TL; DR: The Minimum Viable Library for Agile Leaders A new edition of the Minimum Viable Library on Agile Leadership…