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11 Common Mistakes When Creating User Stories

Most User Stories Are User Fairytales 🧚‍♀️

The Agile Certification Flywheel 🏆

Exhaustiveness Vs. Clarity

"Sprint Goals Don't Work For Us"

Don't Place Your Trust in a Unreliable Narrator

Agile Is Not About Predictability

In Rocks We Trust

The Cannibalization of Progress

Book Launch Party: Driving Value with Sprint Goals

Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?

The PM Vs. PO Flowchart

Prediction vs. Adaptation

The Liberty of Enabling Constraints

On Scrum and Hamsters 🐹

AMA: Sprint Goals

Scrum: Failure By Design?

Top 10 Sprint Goal Memes

A Gentle Introduction to Dysfunction Mapping

The Dysfunction of Dysfunction

Agile Maturity Model Adherence - Be Careful What You Wish For!

Planning or Progress?

The Easiest Way to Explain Story Points - Corgi Edition

Maarten's Agile From First Principles Guide V0.8

#1 New Release on Amazon: My Book 'Driving Value with Sprint Goals: Humble Plans, Exceptional Results'

Why Should All Scrum Teams Use Sprint Goals?

In Refinement We Trust

SAFe: Why Can't We Be Friends?

My Book Goes to Production!

Why Stakeholder Management Is Incredibly Difficult When You Work in Product Management

Why Better Planning Won't Fix Your Scaling Problems

Things You Shouldn't Do When Rebuilding a Product, Part I

Agilists Are Better at Explaining Waterfall Than Agile

Why Many Tech Companies Suck at Planning and Don't Hit Their Targets

🎧 Podcast Episode: The Product Owner and Scrum Master Relationship

The Problem Isn't Convincing Your Manager

To All Scrum Masters: Please Step Up Your Game

Why Inexperienced Teams Shouldn't Start With A Definition of Ready

🎧 New Podcast Episode: Humble Planning

Unearth the Jobs-To-Be-Done (JTBD) of a Product by Interviewing Customers