Invest in your Product Owner
Why the Product Owner is often the most underinvested role in Scrum — and why getting stories to READY-READY before sprint planning is a business investment, not just a process step.
Read more →Making sense of agility, scaling, OKRs, product operating models, and leadership — written from 15+ years in the field.
Why the Product Owner is often the most underinvested role in Scrum — and why getting stories to READY-READY before sprint planning is a business investment, not just a process step.
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Read more →The overhead of iterations does not disappear with Kanban — but it does shift from fixed-cadence overhead to on-demand transaction cost that can be optimized differently.
Read more →Code freezes during iterations are a classic agile antipattern — signaling that testing is not integrated enough into the flow of development.
Read more →Curated links on lean pull-based design, BDD, and the Kanban metaphor — exploring how flow thinking integrates with agile development practices.
Read more →Embracing change is a core agile value — but humans and organizations resist it by default. Early reflections on why change management is not optional in agile transformations.
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