The Problem. Your team runs on ceremonies and dashboards, but between stand-ups and sprint reviews, blind spots can lurk. Commit spikes hide stealth debt, sentiment dips signal brewing burnout, and...
- Lighting Up Hidden Signals for a Week of Agile InsightThe Problem. Even the best Agile teams rely on blind faith when they depend only on events and dashboards. Commit...
- A story a day keeps the cynics away—here’s today’s. Why Joy is a Delivery Metric. Harvard Business Review’s “Happiness Dividend” study showed happy employees are 31% more productive and...
- Agile transformations often begin with excitement (a catalyzing event if done properly). You know, a two-day certification push, a new set of tools, and a celebration of backlog migration...
- Active listening beats another JIRA automation, here’s proof. Why Frameworks Are Not Enough.Frameworks like Scrum and Kanban are excellent frameworks; they give us rhythm, artifacts, and a shared language...
- Remote? Multilingual? Empathy is still your fastest protocol.Monday, we focused on psychological safety, the oxygen that allows Agile teams to breathe. But safety alone doesn’t move work across oceans...
- Your velocity may be capped by the fear in the room; let’s ease that fear. Why It Matters. I'm not gonna lie. This might be the most important thing...
- Have OpenAI write the initial Given/When/Then statements, then let your developers critique them before Sprint Planning even begins. Why This Matters. First-pass stories are useful, but testable stories are...
-- Combine Jira cycle-time data with AI tags, reveal queues, and use swarm where it matters. Why This Matters. Shipping faster isn’t just about smaller stories; it’s about reducing wait...
The age-old question: What could possibly keep a Scrum Master busy all day? Many organizations make the mistake of limiting this role to just the team level. That’s a big...
Cluster backlog items, surface hidden blockers, and walk into the workshop with a clear picture instead of a guess. Why This Matters.A quarterly roadmap isn’t a promise; it’s a conversation...
Why This Matters. Long-time readers know we’ve joked about strict Definition-of-Ready checklists before. A simple list can’t capture every detail of product discovery work, and teams sometimes misuse DoR as...