A new regulation drops on a Friday afternoon. Hundreds of pages, dense and cross-referenced, and somewhere in there is the answer to a question your business needs by Monday: what...
A Scrum Master I worked with at a health system kept hearing the same sentence in every planning meeting. We can't do that here, compliance won't let us. After...
A few weeks ago I had the privilege of standing in front of 300 employees at the Dallas County Tax Office. They'd set aside a day of enrichment for their...
A Scrum Master I coach blocks two hours every other Tuesday to prepare for sprint review. She calls it her translation time. Down the hall, her calendar holds six other...
A Scrum Master I worked with kept a beautiful calendar. Every event color-coded, every invite on time, the board green by Friday. When I asked which of those events...
Open your calendar for next week and count the recurring meeting blocks. Then ask one honest question about each one: does this produce a decision, a learning, or a next...
A Scrum Master I coach blocks two hours every other Tuesday afternoon to prep for sprint review. She calls it her "translation time." The team just shipped a backend query...
A Scrum Master messaged me last month with a question that summarized the whole problem. "Our two main stakeholders stopped coming to sprint review three months ago. They told...
Here's a quick experiment. Ask your stakeholders, on a scale of one to ten, how valuable is your sprint review? I bet they'll say four. Now go ask your team...
A product team I worked with shipped something genuinely good last spring. They had built an AI assistant right into their support tool that drafted a first-pass reply to every...
A product leader sits in a sprint review on a Thursday afternoon. The demo is clean, the feature works, the team looks happy, and the AI-assisted code that built it...
Sit in on a requirements meeting sometime and watch for the moment it happens. You ask the person who knows the process best, the one who has done the job...