Category: Agile/Scrum
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The Power of Storytelling
Storytelling > Product Specs We like to believe that facts drive change.Dashboards, metrics, adoption curves, and defect counts all seem perfectly rational. And yet, every major transformation we’ve lived through tells a different story. Facts tell us what is happening.They rarely tell us what must change next.And they almost never…
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Who Owns JIRA-1138? (Definitely Not Me)
Product Management Circus: A Backlog Refinement Satire A Sprint Refinement Satire Sprint: 134 Team: “Agile Avengers” Meeting: Sprint Refinement (a.k.a. “Let’s Pretend We’ll Do This”) Time: 2:00 PM (or whenever the last person remembers to join Zoom) Cast of Characters Scrum Master (Rita): Keeper of the Timebox. Product Owner (Dan):…
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InnerSourcing (Part 2): Key Players in an Organisation
Explore Contributors, Trusted Committers, and Core Maintainers In this three-part series, In continuation of my last article on InnerSource (busting the myths), I am presenting a new article that talks about: So, let’s start. 1. Contributors These are the developers from various business units who use the developer tooling platform and contribute…
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Scrum Chaos: A Hilarious Look at Bad Practices
The Scrum story (Scrumageddon) directly from your workplace When I opened my LinkedIn this morning, one of my connections posted this funny one-liner about Scrum practices: The JIRA backlog is like a black hole — stories go in, but nothing ever comes out. I couldn’t help but chuckle as I…
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A Day at the Mind the Product Conference (#MTPCON 2025) at the Barbican, London
#MTPCON (Mind the Product Conference) is one of the largest and most influential product management conferences globally. It is designed for product managers, product owners, UX designers, and leaders to gain insights into the latest trends, best practices, and challenges in product development. This year, I had the opportunity to…
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Psychological Safety At Work (Year 2020 – During Covid)
“Overbearing and oppressive leadership can make people afraid of failure, destroy initiative, and even cause unethical behaviors within the enterprise.” “Agile teams live with constant change — whether it be learning, evolving priorities, or shifting technologies — their energies must be spent on working together healthily. If they are living…
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Do we need managers in an Agile Organisation?
Agile Organisations adopt the Scrum framework for developing innovative products and services. According to the Scrum guide, the Scrum framework has just 3 roles. With most organisations undergoing an Agile transformation, are we saying that traditional management roles like project, program and functional managers are obsolete or no longer needed?…
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Agile Transformation – How to Convince The Bosses (C-Suite)?
‘Embracing change demands sacrifices and a courageous willingness to let go of essential elements of your current way of working, beginning with our leaders. We gave up the traditional hierarchy, formal meetings, over-engineering, detailed planning, and excessive “input steering” in exchange for empowered teams, informal networks, and “output steering.” You…
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Top Trick Questions for PSPO Certification Exam
Though not a big fan of Scrum certifications, I still want to help the community by posting a few trick questions asked in the Product Owner certification exam (PSPO). Guys, I found PSPO-Advance easier than PSPO-1 because of the time pressure. You have to complete 80 questions in an hour.…