Leadership

3 Reasons Scrum is failing you

Scrum fails in a lot of businesses. Most don’t realize it, and the rest accept it as an industry standard they can’t avoid. Here are three reasons why Scrum fails and how to fix it.

February 13, 2023 Read

Critical Abuse or Constructive Criticism?

Being a good teacher or mentor is the hardest thing I’ve ever had to learn. Everyone struggles with praising or encouraging others, but this is how we learn. The focus of teaching should be to establish lasting confidence and skill in that order.

February 6, 2023 Read

I'm NOT like you. I'm an Engineer

Distributed Cloud, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Quantum Computing, ChatGPT. I know all the buzzwords and the challenges they hide.

January 30, 2023 Read

Take advantage of your time off

Info: This is part three of the Freelance & Prosper series, a series about how to prosper in a job that can feel very insecure and not very stable to some.

October 4, 2021 Read

My burnout story

Info: This is part of the Freelance & Prosper series, a series about how to prosper in a job that can feel very insecure and not very stable to some.

September 30, 2021 Read

Why financial stability is freedom

Info: This is part two of the Freelance & Prosper series, a series about how to prosper in a job that can feel very insecure and not very stable to some.

September 23, 2021 Read

How I choose contracts and clients

Info: This is part one of the Freelance & Prosper series, a series about how to prosper in a job that can feel very insecure and not very stable to some.

September 9, 2021 Read

Experience ~ Talent

I have had many titles during my career, and most of them have included the modifiers like “Junior” or “Senior”. I have also worked with many people with the same modifiers in their names.

August 24, 2021 Read

Stop gambling with Scrum

I used to play Texas Hold’em back when it was the popular thing to do. Like so many others I’d watched it on TV, and with the sudden availability of online poker, I was hooked.

June 9, 2021 Read

How to benefit from a retrospective

In my experience, the retrospective is the most underutilized and straightforward ceremony in Scrum. I’ve sat in numerous retrospectives, where issues were raised, no actions were discussed, and no attempts to address the issues were made.

May 18, 2021 Read

When Scrum becomes a Cargo Cult

You probably started making changes to Scrum to make it “better fit” your organization or team, and at that point, it became “Scrum, but”. You know this has happened, if you are asked to explain your process, and you start by saying something like “We use Scrum, but…”.

May 11, 2021 Read