Sitemap - 2021 - Maarten’s Newsletter
Are you practicing Anaconda or Hummingbird-style Scrum?
How Story Points turned to the dark side
The Usual Response to Deadlines in Development Teams Causes Delays
Copy-pasting frameworks and expecting success is foolish
How I reached 32K followers with a niche audience
Complex work makes mistakes inevitable
10 Agile and Scrum memes inspired by Squid Game
Showing all features at the Sprint Review should be like having mustard after the hot dog
Stop viewing stakeholders as adversaries to manage
A hideous solution that doesn’t scale is sometimes the best option
Stop suffering from 'Goldfish Memory' at the Sprint Review
11 Laws of Software Estimation for Complex Work
How writing made me a better Product Owner
Most roadmaps are an orchestrated delusion meant to preserve the illusion of control
SAFe is a marketing framework, not an Agile scaling framework
Why Scrum prevents and causes Technical Debt
User Stories are ill-suited for expressing requirements
The immutable framework definition makes it impossible to criticize Scrum
How to deal with an absolute unit of a Product Backlog?
Why always Sprinting is at odds with delivering value
Why roadmaps reflect the level of Agile inadequacy
Debunking the 'Scrum isn't Agile' misconception
15 Scrum / Agile Writers you should follow on Medium
Product Owners are great when their team doesn’t need them
Why ‘Don’t do Agile, Be Agile’ is terrible advice
The unlikely story behind the finest herring in the world
Having Product Owners and Product Managers work together is crazy and ineffective
Will the real Product Owner, please stand up?
Doing perfect Scrum doesn’t mean you are delivering value
Why estimates and timelines are the biggest enemy to delivering value