My most popular posts of 2022
2022 was the year I started my own business as a solopreneur. 2023 is the year I will start writing more than ever (I intend to write two posts per week!).
Here are my ten most popular posts of 2022 in terms of views.
10. You can’t prevent the mess
Hofstadter's law: it always takes longer than expected, even if you take into account Hofstadter’s law.
9. Down the RACI rabbit hole
Nothing good ever happened after I went into a meeting room to create our RACI. All that happened is that we planted our flags and made it easier to point fingers at each other instead of making the right thing happen.
8. I see Scrum Monsters everywhere!
I wrote this piece to reflect that I always encounter Scrum monstrosities in the wild and what conclusions we can draw from this.
7. Ask a Product Owner #3: Stakeholder Management
A practical piece where I answered audience questions regarding refinement and collated all of my answers together in a single piece.
6. Are you a Puppet Owner?
Most Product Owners, unfortunately, don’t own the product but are Puppet Owners where someone else is pulling the strings.
5. Introducing Scrum without doing Scrum
I described an empirical approach of introducing Scrum gradually, so you can invite team members to discover and learn how the different parts of the framework fit together.
4. Resolving the one Product Owner per product conundrum
What are the different ways you can scale the Product Owner role? What are the advantages and downsides of the different approaches?
3. The 6 biggest Sprint Misconceptions
Olina Glindevi and I collaborated together on this article, and it was a resounding success! I love the illustrations, and I hope they will help Scrum Teams worldwide to look at their Sprints (and Scrum) differently.
2. The Way of the Lazy Product Owner
How do you handle multiple Scrum Teams effectively as a Product Owner? Enter the Way of the Lazy Product Owner.
1. Scrum’s unintended and gradual disconnect from Product Management
In this article, I try to show how the Product Owner accountability is one of the weak spots of Scrum. It won’t be fixed, as there is too much money in certifications, and nobody wants to rock the boat (and update all those training materials).