Sitemap - 2020 - Maarten’s Newsletter
Struggling with Product Goals? Don’t worry, I’ve got you covered!
A pretty burn-down usually means ugly Scrum
Why we switched from Feature Teams to Component Teams
Stop locking estimates, start forecasting
Companies That Obsess Over Velocity Are Clueless About Scrum
7 years ago when I started with Scrum…
Stop treating your Sprints like Fort Knox
Scrum alienates the world of Product Management
Why Scrum doesn’t kill your product — you do
Scrum is about inventing your own rules
Must Product Owners and Scrum Masters be Archenemies?
The #NoEstimates movement is a pointless infatuation
How to escape your Scrum prison
A Response to ‘Scrum Is Dead. All Hail Kanban, the New King’
Carry-overs are good when you use Scrum
Sprint Goals are the beating heart of Scrum
Reflecting on your problems at the Sprint Retrospective is too late
Agile isn’t an excuse for winging it
Help! I’m working in a Feature Factory, what should I do?
What a red paperclip can teach you about being a Scrum Master
Product Owners lose their job when SAFe is introduced
Why Scrum Masters shouldn’t be coaching Product Owners
The inability to use Sprint Goals is symptomatic of serious Product Management problems
Should you hire Product Managers or Product Owners for your Scrum Teams?
Basecamp’s Shape Up: how different is it really from Scrum?
Are all Scrum Masters in eternal pursuit of a Fata Morgana?
6 Common Mistakes When Rebuilding a Product
How Product Owners can stop developers from being a pain in the @## during refinement
How seemingly trivial details can derail your valuable project
Delivering features on time is overrated
Supermarkets are using Kanban to help fight the Coronavirus
What is the easiest way to explain Story Points?
Learning the Scrum values through Aesop’s fables
Scrum is like Jazz — it works best when you play and improvise
How to stop features from killing your product
Working without Sprint Goals guarantees technical debt
10 things you must do to build high-performing Scrum Teams as a Product Owner
14 Signs you’re working in a Scrum Feature Factory
How do Product Owners deliver value without actually building anything?
Introducing Scrum at a company where everyone hates Scrum
Stop talking so much about the different Scrum roles
To all Scrum Masters: please step up your game