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Agile is about a mindset or way of being. Scrum is a detailed set of roles, practices & steps. You need both practices and mindset to succeed.
The Scrum framework exists to deliver value to stakeholders sooner. Sounds good, right? But when is something “valuable”? For something that seems so central to Scrum, there is little guidance on…
In February of 2001, 17 prominent thinkers from the world of software met at a ski resort in Utah. Together, they created the 4 values and twelve principles that became known as the Agile Manifesto. On this 20th anniversary Dr. Jeff Sutherland, a signatory of the Agile Manifesto talks about how it came to be.
One thing that has been mentioned from time to time on this blog i
Find out how agile practices have influenced and changed product management since the Manifesto for Agile Software Development was conceived in 2001.
Best practices are, despite the name, not universally good.
Many best practices in programming don’t meet the definition. They spread not based on merit or evidence but thanks to authority bias and social utility. As they spread, they lose nuance. As they lose nuance, they become easier to evangelise. Combined with lack of experience, they can lead to cult-like behaviour.
Think of an engineering team that got obsessed with a best practice, like test-driven development or writing user stories, to the point of detriment. Many developers have fallen into that trap, myself included.
By Leo Babauta We tend to go through our days with our noses to the grindstone, doing tasks, getting distracted, jumping from one thing to the next. Go to sleep tired, repeat the next day. Our days become an endless cycle of getting stuff done and getting through to the next day (especially during this […]
Are we successful as a Team? Can we measure that? We look at 10+ areas of team success and how to measure them. Get inspired to choose the metric you need, right now, on your path to high-performing!
“I love Scrum. It makes all the sense to me. Here’s a framework to tackle complexity, to reduce risks and deliver value early. It is everything our organisation needs. But it is not what our…
When leaders are under pressure they can fall into dark side behaviours that can cause deep and lasting harm to organisation culture and psychological safety. Leaders need to be very conscious about deliberately managing their reactions and responses to pressure situations in order to avoid allowing what are often character strengths to be overused and potentially become toxic.
Working in a high-performing agile team is a blessing and a curse.
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When might you need to declare roadmap bankruptcy? Find out the signs I've seen that indicate it's time to declare roadmap bankruptcy.
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There you are: the all-reliable engineer. You code at lightning speed, ship fixes quickly, juggle tons of meetings, and squash bugs with ease. Your team has learned to rely on you, and who can blame…
Dr. Angela Trego, PE, PMP provides some insight into why it’s worth gaining a bit of knowledge in project management and how it can help you become a rock star.
TL; DR: How to Make Agile Work in Fast-Growing Startups For years, I worked in several Berlin-based, fast-growing startups in my capacity as Scrum Master,
TL; DR: Product Owner Anti-Patterns from Job Ads Garbage in, garbage out: No matter whether your team chose Scrum for the right purpose—solving complex,
Find out how to be a great Growth Product Manager, in this special AMA with Pinterest's Head of Growth, Scott Weisfeld.
Categorizing the requirements on a project, even the emergent ones that you can’t see yet, helps teams build a more useful and accurate backlog. Learn more.
Being Agile doesn't necessarily mean you're Lean, but, as Janna Bastow explains, you can't be Lean unless you've cracked Agile.
Got blockers? Don’t leave them til the Standup and don’t remove them yourself. Help the team to self-organise!
The Daily Scrum is not just an Event, it’s an opportunity to replan, refocus, and align on your Sprint Goal. Scrum Inc.’s Scott Downey shares his approach for making your Daily Scrum the most important 15-minutes (or less) of your workday.
Nothing replaces the collaboration, exploration, and grit necessary to emerge the “Right” product. In the end, OKRs are only another planning technique.
LTV (Lifetime Value) is an important metric for decision-making in both marketing and product management. But measuring LTV is a bit tricky and you can easily make mistakes when calculating it. Moreover, even articles that have found their way to the first first page of Google search results contain mistakes when it comes to calculating … Continue reading "The do’s and don’ts of LTV calculation"
Scrum Masters love talking about Scrum like it is the solution to everything. Master Scrum and the delivery of value is inevitable. I’d actually argue the opposite. When you obsess over perfecting…
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