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The Rise Of The Product Developers - Part I, Beyond User Needs March 6, 2023
Inspired by my colleague Bas Vodde’s recent conference talk, I’m embarking on a series about The Rise of the Product Developers. This first piece will focus on how Product Developers can adopt a strategic approach to user requirements. Product Developers build products by understanding the domain and customer problems. Product Developers are not simply coders […]
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The Fractal Within a Sprint of Large-Scale Scrum March 13, 2022
A fractal is a structure in which, when you look closer, you will discover self-similarity at different scales. (wikipedia). Zoom In and Out Scrum Fix The Empirical Process Control In Picture A, you can find a typical representation of a Sprint in Scrum, which is, perhaps, a misunderstanding of both iterative development and empirical process. […]
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The harmfulness of Scrum Master double roles and what you can do about it January 5, 2022
The harmfulness of Scrum Master double roles and what you can do about it The other day I had an intense conversation with managers about the topic of double roles of a Scrum Master. One of the managers was also a Scrum Master. He and his superior defended the viewpoint that it is a great […]
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Playing with words September 11, 2020
Harmful Agile Adoptions by Playing with Words This is an ad-hoc post written out of pure frustration with many so-called AGILE adoptions. Everywhere I go, new fancy names get adopted for old concepts without any behavioral change. The most common is a mixture of Scrum terms and “spotify model” terms. It would be good if […]
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The path of least resistance towards one backlog August 18, 2020
(Originally published by Lv Yi on Oct 3, 2019) How could we create a path of least resistance towards one backlog? A collection of multiple backlogs is NOT one backlog Assuming that multiple teams are working on the same product, the following is a typical conversation between me and a friend in the community or […]
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