Once upon a time, in a kingdom ruled by the wise King Code, there were two agile teams—Team Spark and Team Synergy. Each team was made up of five members: three developers, one tester, and one product owner. Both teams had the same roles, the same number of members, and the same set of skills, […]
I have a love-hate relationship with feedback. On one hand, I know it’s essential for growth and learning, and I want to improve as a person. On the other hand, I often find myself resistant to it. So, what’s the issue? For me, feedback comes in two forms: feedback aimed at changing someone, and feedback
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No matter how Agile we are, many people struggle to achieve goals. People lose motivation or believe in the end goal. The path to follow doesn’t seem to lead anywhere. But, on my CV, I am brave enough to say “I achieve the unachievable”. It’s not because I am so special. It’s just mostly one
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Sometimes, you have a problem in an Agile team. There is too much work. You, as a team, do whatever you can do, but the business says it is not enough. Within the current team, there is not the possibility to grow. And they want more in, let’s say, three months. As a team, you
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You have speakers and you have listeners. Speakers tell you how the world is. Listeners ask you how you see the world. I am a speaker. I write blogs. I tell you how the world is. But I have surrounded myself in my job with 3 wonderful listeners. Because I know they are important and needed to achieve things. It’s just that: in general,
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You might have read Scrum is your enemy. I am here to tell you it is not. Scrum can be used to get anything you want, no matter what it will cost your colleagues, your company, or others. Even better: if you do it right, others will get blamed. Let me teach you how. Lesson 1: You are
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As you might guess, the image of this blog is created by AI, in my case Stable Diffusion. I struggled with it because there are not a lot of pictures with green clouds. So, every picture with a green cloud had a green shade over the whole picture. Because of that the green cloud did
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When I look at how Agile a team is, I do not look for Scrum masters, product owners, sprints, or retrospectives. Not even when they follow the Scrum method. It doesn’t interest me that much. When I want to know how Agile a team is, I listen. I listen to how they talk. I listen
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I just started at a new company. And then something strange happened. As a person, I was always the one against people just joining and having a strong opinion. Now, this time, I was the one just joining and having a strong opinion. Still, it didn’t feel like I was breaking a rule. And that
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I think everyone knows the situation. A bug is found by someone in your company. Not a user, but a developer, salesperson, or any other person. When do you solve it? Solving a bug, that is not found by a user compared to functionality that can earn the company money, is an easy comparison. The
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