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My Top 10 Most Popular Articles of 2024
"How Do I Prevent My Ideas and Writing From Sucking?"
Don't Let Rejection Mess With Your Head
"Why Do You Criticize Scrum, When You Wrote a Whole Book on Sprint Goals?"
Sprinkle Squirrels 🐿️ On Your Resume
Stop Wasting Your Time On MoSCoW Prioritization
Sayonara to the Golden Age of Scrum
How a Digital Transformation Can Bankrupt Your Company
Pushing Work to Teams Vs. Pulling
The Prettier the Slides, the Worse the Agile Transformation
Two Steps Back, One Step Forward
Michael Jackson and The Blinding Pursuit of Perfection
Making The Case for Replacing Story Points With Ideal Days
Why Do Most Agile Transformations Fail?
Are Product Owners Too Much Overhead?
The First Rule of Agile: You Don't Talk About Agile
Are Scrum Masters Too Much Overhead?
Revisiting INVEST 20+ Years Later
Stop Drooling Over User Stories
The Era of Copy-Paste Agile Is Over
10 Valid Reasons Why You’ll Struggle with Sprint Goals
When to Kick Managers Out and Call Them Back Later
Escaping Story Points with Right-sizing
How to Prevent Being Buried by Work as a Product Manager
Be Aware of the Agile Anti-Patterns Baked in Your Tool of Choice
Two Agile Manifesto Co-Authors on a Couch
Maarten's Sprint Goal Template
Agilesplaining: Why the C-level Doesn't Get Agile
"It Doesn't Work Because They're Not Doing Scrum"
Your Company's Problem is Hiding in Plain Sight - High Work-In-Progress (WIP)
Why Isn't LeSS (Large Scale Scrum) More Popular?
Sprint Planning: Stop Wasting Time on Spreadsheet Capacity Micromanagement
Reviewing 4 Different Sprint Goal Templates
What Does a Product Manager *Really* Do?
Maarten's Sprint Review Guide V0.8
Scrum's Built-in 'Get Out of Jail Free Card' Against Criticism
"What If We Don't Spend Enough Time On Planning?"
The Confidence and Curiosity to Doubt
Why OKRs Often Slowly Wither Away
Legacy Systems All the Way Down
Gummy Bears and Unicorns Don't Transform Organizations
Stop Hiding In the Comfort of Your Expertise
Don't Make Your Sprint a Straitjacket
Velocity Theater Produces Awful Meals
Don't Get Trapped On The Content Level
Prepare For Disappointment When You Throw Deadlines Over the Fence To Your Teams
The Irony of a Definition of Ready
Five Ways You're Unintentionally Screwing Up Sprint Planning
If You Truly Hate Someone, Give Them a RFP - Request For Proposal
Scope Creep: When Your Scope Is The Least of Your Problems
Why Do All Elevators Have Mirrors?
Book Interview: Stefan Wolpers
Working For Myself: One Year In