In a previous blog post, I talked about different categories of product owners. You can check it out here. But here’s a summary: Scribe — doesn’t add any value, just takes orders. Proxy — who maybe doesn’t just take the orders, maybe adds some value in terms of assessing whether…

Where is your product in its lifecycle? AND how that could overlap with the complexity of the work that you’re dealing with? How old is your product?

Isn’t Kanban just about outputs? Isn’t Kanban missing a trick with value and organizational capability? First of all, I want to give you a little bit of context because there’s a wonderful framework called evidence-based management from scrum.org and it has two aspects. The first aspect I won’t go into…

Kanban is a strategy for optimizing the flow of value through a process that uses a visual, pull-based system. It’s suited to complex problems because it helps deal with uncertainty, a central feature of complex professional knowledge work. …

Opinions vs. Evidence Sometimes people get confused between opinions and evidence.

Executive leaders, try giving your people time to learn 9 minutes at 9:00 AM daily. Give them the space so that they don’t have any meetings booked in their diary. What does it look like in practice?

Unlocking sustainable authentic organizational agility, one step at a time, one behavior at a time The case for Agile Kata The “being doing gap” You don’t need to be Agile to be agile, even if Agile is mainstream. Other options include DevOps, Lean, Product Management, Modern Agile, and Shape Up. We need to focus more on product and customer…

In Scrum, we have a product owner. It is an accountability, it’s no longer a role according to the 2020 Scrum guide. There are different categories of product owner: scribe proxy business representative sponsor CEO of the product. The Scribe Product Owner

What is LeSS? LeSS is a de-scaling framework. Also referred to sometimes as a scaling framework. Aim simplification Designed for product development Queueing Theory One of the principles in LeSS is queuing theory. Kanban comes from a similar place in that you try to stop starting and start finishing.