Ask a Product Owner #1: Refinement

On LinkedIn, I gave my connections and followers the opportunity to ask any burning question they…

Ask a Product Owner #3 — Stakeholder Management

Are you a Puppet Owner?

Who is pulling the strings?

“It’s time you realized that you…

“It’s almost done”

Famous last words at the Daily Scrum. I have heard them repeated many times over.

I see Scrum monsters everywhere!

I always end up fighting🤺 Scrum demons wherever I go. I never witnessed a Scrum angel 👼🏿 upon…

Down the RACI rabbit hole

“Let’s create a RACI matrix.”

You can’t prevent the mess

These two blockbuster movies show the messy nature of complex work, though what comes out is the opposite of a…

Unwarranted faith in the GANTT

The biggest tragedy of the one-year feature GANTT chart, together with precise timelines, is not that we…

When to not do Scrum

If your work is perfectly plannable and predictable: don’t do Scrum.

Book Update #1 — January 2022

I have been writing a single article per week for many years. Each…