What is Product Operations practice and how it can help you solve your product problems? — Today I have the pleasure to talk to Anabela Cesario, a Product Ops Leader and a Chief of Staff to the Chief Product Officer in Outsystems. Anabela bootstrapped the Product Operations in Outsystems, creating the practice from zero. And today we will talk all about Product Operations, what it is…

Let us take you on an Agile learning journey… — Nyland and I talk about leadership, Scrum Master and Agile Coach accountabilities. We explore if anyone cares about certifications anymore, and talk about professional courses. What makes us become good Scrum Masters? Nyland, who has almost the full suite of Scrum.org certifications, explains what Road to Mastery is and how…

On Serious Scrum Community and Agile Leadership — Recently I had the pleasure to talk with Willem-Jan Ageling, a Senior Agile Coach at Worldline and the Co-Founder of the Serious Scrum Community. One of the most vibrant independent Scrum communities globally. We talk about how Serious Scrum came to be and what Agile Leadership really is.

For successful product delivery, we need to let go of control and the fiction of having control over the future — Welcome to the Serious Scrum Conversations where I talk to my colleagues from Serious Scrum and we talk all things Scrum and Agile. Today I have with me one of my Product Management gurus, Paweł Huryn. Paweł is also from…

Is it a matter of hate it or love it? Or is there a third way? — Let me tell you a story of two teams — Team Carpe Diem and Team Planner. The story of two teams Team Carpe Diem has a loose approach to Refinements and Sprint Planning. Sometimes they would have them and sometimes they wouldn’t. Oftentimes they would take a…

Scaling Agile is easier than you think. How to run a meaningful Scrum of Scrums. — How to scale Agile? How to make sure multiple teams working on the same product, usually in Scrum or Kanban, are in sync and aligned? Which leads to — what is Scrum of Scrums and how to conduct it? …

Is it combat or collaboration? — Recently I was asking myself, are we still in the Scrum vs Kanban fight? Does it still look like this? When my first video on the topic came out two years ago, the internet was full of content on the topic. Is it…

Results & Retention — that’s the job of an Engineering Manager — The time has come to recap the first season of Engineering Managers Interviews. It has been a very interesting and informative series of interviews. Nine interviews with Engineering Managers, Tech Leads, and Team Leads. Daniel and I are doing a recap of the first season. Which topics are repeated over…

Why is it important to set a goal? How to set meaningful objectives and why they are more important than the plans. — Today I am joined by Maarten Dalmijn, a popular Product Management Leader and soon-to-be-author of a book on Sprint Goals on that precise subject. We speak about the importance of setting objectives, not only the Sprint Goals but the objectives in general. …