The Product Goal of Margaret Thatcher
This is the third and final part of my series about Product Ownership concepts inspired by Netflix's "The Crown." To start from part one, check out The technical Debt of…
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Practice Makes Better
I want you to imagine it's December 2019. You are part of a Scrum Team. Not just any scrum team, but a great one. Super-high performing, on target in everything,…
Continue ReadingWhat is an Accountable Scrum Master
I've written several blog posts about the role of a Scrum Master. Most recently, I wrote about why we shouldn't refer to Scrum Masters as leaders. But the new revision…
Continue ReadingWe shouldn’t call Scrum Masters “Servant Leaders”
The new Scrum Guide came out on November 18th 2020. This first major revision in three years softens the language of many ideas in the guide, making it less prescriptive…
Continue ReadingWhen your remote team is too distributed for scrum
I worked on a scrum team once that had most of its members co-located in two offices in Israel, with one guy, Peter, in an office in California, a 10…
Continue ReadingScrum people are awesome
I usually write about professional agile topics. Today, I want to say something a little different: Scrum people are awesome. Recently I took and passed the Professional Scrum Master II…
Continue ReadingTwo ways to build trust in a remote agile setting (and why it’s really important)
A couple of years ago my family and I fulfilled a long time dream and moved to a little village in the Czech Republic. Since I’ve always done at least…
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