Your Product Owner tells the team in Monday’s planning that everything’s on track. Then in Thursday’s leadership sync, she tells her director the team missed two sprint goals in a row and it’s a delivery risk. Nobody in that meeting hears your side of it. So you talk to her privately. You stay calm, you’re…

The Problem Imagine this scenario. A client has contracted for the development of a new IT system. The implementer, as part of their obligation, creates a functional specification and submits it to the client for review. The client forms a Team of about ten people for this purpose, tasked with verifying that the document correctly…

Imagine you’re about to build a Scrum Team for a critical project. You have room for only four people. Then someone shows you this picture. An older woman. A pregnant woman. A young man using crutches. A mother carrying a sleeping child. And asks one uncomfortable question: Who would you remove from your Scrum Team?…

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THIS POST SHOWS HOW TO SOLVE A PROBLEM WHEN Non-Technical Teams Struggle in Scrum Meetings… It usually starts like this. You’re sitting in Sprint Planning or refinement. Someone mentions “Definition of Ready” or talks about refining the backlog, and half the room starts discussing it like it’s obvious. You nod along. But inside, you’re thinking:…

Last time, this boat taught us something about Scrum. Today, it teaches us something even more important, about testing. (WATCH THE INTRO) Quick setup if you are new here. A small lifeboat in a rough sea. Five people aboard: a doctor, a soldier, a police officer, a teacher, and a journalist. One line of text…

Let’s perform a lifeboat test together: The boat only holds 4. Who do you throw out? You have probably seen the picture. A small wooden boat in a stormy sea. Five people crammed inside, all screaming. A doctor, a soldier, a police officer, a teacher, and a journalist. Above them, one cold question: “This boat…

My phone rang on an ordinary afternoon. It was Vladimir, a friend of mine, a cameraman who has spent his career framing other people’s stories through a lens. “Dejan, I need a simple application. A shift schedule. Nothing complicated. A table, a few workers, who works when. Can you make that for me?” I was…

Hey, You opened yesterday’s email about the AI-Powered Backlog Refiner. You didn’t enroll. That’s fine, I know what usually gets in the way. Let me address the three most common ones. “I already use ChatGPT for user stories.” Pasting a request into ChatGPT without context gives you a generic story that sounds like it was…

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