Making sense of agility, scaling, OKRs, product operating models, and leadership — written from 15+ years in the field.
Advanced Product Ownership goes beyond backlog management. Dealing with the organizational constraints — fixed scope, big design upfront, governance requirements — that prevent real agility.
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COVID-19 reframed agile principles for a general audience. Uncertainty, complexity, empiricism, and flow — what the pandemic revealed about how organizations handle unknowns.
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An updated pandemic-era take on running the Spotify Squad Health Check virtually — Kahoot integration, facilitation tips, and how to extend it beyond squads to tribes and ARTs.
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A deep-dive podcast conversation on the Professional Scrum with Kanban (PSK) course: why it exists, what it teaches, and what it means to apply Kanban within a Scrum context.
Read more →The wrong reasons people sign up for SAFe SPC certification — and what you should actually expect to get out of an Implementing SAFe workshop if you attend with the right mindset.
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User stories are a poor fit for marketing backlogs. What marketing work items should look like, why the difference matters, and how to structure a marketing backlog that actually delivers value.
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