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When I was working as a Product Owner, I found myself at the heart of a project that felt both thrilling and terrifying. We had spent months pouring our energy into creating something we genuinely believed could make a difference: a unique WordPress plugin for marketers, packed with features like A/B testing for sales pages,…
A remote worker, quietly managing not one, but four side gigs alongside their main job. It’s the kind of story that makes you do a double-take, especially when it lands in your feed from Crossover, with its 7.8 million LinkedIn followers. As a software tester, I couldn’t help but dive into their recent poll: “Remote…
When Code Goes Rogue at 3 AM It’s 3 AM on a Tuesday. Your phone buzzes with urgent notifications. Your e-commerce platform (the one processing thousands of transactions daily) just crashed. Customers can’t complete purchases. Your support team is flooded with angry calls. And with every passing minute, you’re bleeding $5,600 according to Gartner’s latest…
I can’t help myself. Every time I turn on the news, I get pulled in. The images of conflict, the interviews with soldiers, the constantly shifting frontlines, it’s heartbreaking, overwhelming, and impossible to ignore. I find myself watching late into the night, not just with sorrow, but with a strange sense of pattern recognition. Somewhere…
If you’ve been following my work around Scrum and agile thinking, this might come as a bit of a surprise. I’m currently building a course about TikTok ads. (More info about TikTok ads you can find here) To be more specific, it’s called TikTok Ad Strategy Accelerator – From Scroll to Smart Growth. And if you’re…
A hard-learned lesson that transformed how I approach product development Three years ago, I watched a critical feature fail spectacularly in production. We’d spent six weeks building what seemed like a straightforward user registration flow. The requirements were clear, the design was polished, and the development team delivered exactly what was asked. But within hours…
Why the most influential person in your testing strategy might not be who you think The Revelation That Changed Everything It was 2:30 PM on a Tuesday when my friend Ivana called me, frustration evident in her voice. As a Product Owner, he’d just walked out of what should have been a routine Sprint Review….
This story emerged from a fascinating workshop on Digital Transformation and IT systems held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, where we examined numerous case studies of government digitalization in action. Among all the examples presented, Denmark’s bold approach stood out as both the most audacious and most successful. https://youtu.be/TbBD8SAgrb0?si=naFEXLyOWRHLuWUc In 2015, Denmark’s Finance Minister was faced with…
Let me share a €2 experiment you will love. Fresh from witnessing groundbreaking digital transformation case studies at a workshop in Ljubljana, Slovenia, I’m compelled to share another story (check the first one here) that perfectly illustrates why timing is everything in government digitalization—and how a simple €2 tax bill became an important thing in…
How a fisherman on Lake Victoria is showing governments worldwide the future of digital transformation? After three days locked in Ljubljana with the world’s most powerful tax officials, I realized we’d been asking the wrong question for a decade. We kept asking, ‘How do we truly build digital transformation in government?’ when we should have…