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No, Product Management Isn’t Useless — You’re Just Doing It Wrong
Season 5 Episode 1447
No, Product Management Isn’t Useless — You’re Just Doing It Wrong
If you think PMs just write tickets and slow things down, you haven’t seen product m…
6 months ago
The Scrum Master Role Is Disappearing - Or Is It?
Season 5 Episode 1446
The Scrum Master Role Is Disappearing - Or Is It?
The layoffs of 2023 told a story that few in the tech industry wanted to acknowledge. Among the 120…
6 months, 1 week ago
Trick-or-treaters Leave Their Halloween Candy For Child Battling Leukemia
Season 5 Episode 1445
Trick-or-treaters Leave Their Halloween Candy For Child Battling Leukemia
A search for hope at the end of this very anxious week led me to this humble…
6 months, 1 week ago
Witch’s Brew of Metrics — Don’t Let Vanity Hex Your Team
Season 5 Episode 1444
Witch’s Brew of Metrics — Don’t Let Vanity Hex Your Team
Metric definition template
Name:
What it measures:
Owner:
Frequency:
Thresholds / signals:
Action w…
6 months, 1 week ago
Poltergeist Meetings — When Meetings Throw Things
Season 5 Episode 1443
Poltergeist Meetings — When Meetings Throw Things At You...
5 micro-rituals (practical)
Purpose line on invite — one sentence: “Decision needed / Syn…
6 months, 1 week ago
The Phantom Sprint — Invisible Work That Steals Velocity
Season 5 Episode 1442
The Phantom Sprint — Invisible Work That Steals Velocity
Your sprint looks healthy — until a phantom dependency eats your finish line. Here’s how to f…
6 months, 1 week ago
The Haunted Backlog — When Old Stories Won’t Die
Season 5 Episode 1441
The Haunted Backlog — When Old Stories Won’t Die
Triage: Mark backlog items > 90 days old as “graveyard candidates.”
Reframe: Turn vague epics into a o…
6 months, 1 week ago
A Chad Gymnast Scores Top Marks For Determination
Season 5 Episode 1440
A Chad Gymnast Scores Top Marks For Determination
The wall behind her is pockmarked and worn. She’s barefoot against a hard, cracked floor. And yet Ac…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Stop Worshipping Product Roadmaps
Season 5 Episode 1439
Stop Worshipping Product Roadmaps
A few years ago, I sat through a two-hour planning session where we debated every line of a shiny new roadmap. By th…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
The Only Three Things You Must Do To Improve Agility - Mike Cohn
Season 5 Episode 1438
The Only Three Things You Must Do To Improve Agility - Mike Cohn
Distilled to its essence, it’s quite simple to be a Scrum Master, agile coach, or any…
6 months, 2 weeks ago