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# **Articles**

## **2026**

### **Watch a Cumulative Flow Diagram Build Itself, Day by Day**

### **‘Batches’ in Scrum**

### **Which Class Should You Arrange Next?**

### **Flying In The Dark: A Product Management Metaphor**

### **Bureaucracy Is Not A Scaffold, It Is A Cage**

### **AI Is Rewiring Scrum Teams, But Not Scrum**

### **The David Sabine Test™**

## **2025**

### **Agile Engineering Practices: A Revival**

### **Does Your Kanban Board Include Sprint Backlog Tasks? You Might Be Doing It Wrong**

### **Nobody Understands Leading & Lagging Indicators**

### **Agile Practices and Developer Autonomy**

### **Thank you, Scrum**

### **When To Use Scrum?**

### **PMI Masticates Agile Alliance**

## **2024**

### **Guest: Author David Sabine on the Phoenix Payroll System Scandal**

### **Dislocated Team: “My teammates are in 3 different time zones! Help!?”**

### **Fixing the Broken Pieces: Realizing Software Liability & Attestation Panel**

### **How to Help Scrum "Masters" Who Don't Know The Basics**

### **Should ‘Bugs’ Have ‘Points’?**

### **Do you think it’s necessary to start every sprint with each story fully specified?**

### **Scrum is NOT Dead**

### **Can the tasks of the Sprint Backlog be removed?**

### **What do you think about story points?**

### **Historical Perspective of the Role of the Scrum Master**

### **Kanban or Scrum: Where to begin your learning journey?**

### **Team-managed vs. Company-managed projects in Jira.**

### **The User Story: Demystified**

### **Pssst…You’re Allowed to Stop Using Jargon**

### **TDD question: Is this test needed?**

## **2023**

### **What To Do In the First 90 Days as a Scrum Master**

### **Episode 56: Agile Review with Ennis Lynch, Special Guest David Sabine**

### **Why I’m NOT a SAFe Trainer**

### **Common Complaint: “Scrum Doesn’t Work Here!”**

### **From the Trenches: Small Batches for the Win**

### **The Worst of the Worst #DevLife Jokes**

### **Professional Scrum Trainer Spotlight — David Sabine**

### **Ask a Professional Scrum.org Trainer with PST David Sabine**

### **How To Prevent Another Phoenix Pay System Inferno**

### **Design Agencies Are Fun, Development Teams Are Stressful**

### **Complexity, Empiricism, and the Agile Origin Story**

### **Throwback Thursday: AgileQuestions 2011**

## **2022**

### **What Is Kanban?**

### **What Is Scrum?**

### **Someone Made Up ‘SDLC’ And Everyone Went Along With It**

## **2021**

### **Sometimes ‘Transparency’ Just Means Not Lying**

### **I am a Professional Kanban Trainer with ProKanban.org**

### **A Story of Release Gates: An Antipattern**

### **Continuous Deployment Is Now Table Stakes**

### **Post-Covid Office Environments & Team Structures**

### **Farewell, Taylorism.**

### **No Longer Tolerate ‘Blocked’ or ‘Waiting’ States**

## **2020**

### **Empowerment Retro**

### **Feedback Loops: The Agile Community Evolves**

### **3 Ways to Increase the Agile IQ of an Organization**

### **Team Retrospective — “Feeding the Machine for Corporate Review Season”**

### **Team Structures: Patterns that Work**

### **An Agile Not-for-Profit Organization**

## **2019**

### **Le Sprinkler: L’agilité en podcast**

### **Stop Using Projects to Make Products**

### **The Messy Business of Agile at Scale**

### **Phoenix Payroll Catastrophe — Why Canada is Destined to Repeat It**

### **“Can we use Scrum with ‘remote’ staff?”**

### **Scrum.org Webcast: Teams are Self-Organizing — Get Over It**

### **Does Your Team Produce ‘Bugs’?**

### **Agile Reports for the Project Manager’s Brain**

### **Defining Distributed, Remote, Co-located, and Dislocated Teams**

### **Velocity: Escape this Pitfall!**

### **Scrum in 10 minutes**

## **2018**

### **I am a Professional Scrum Trainer with Scrum.org**

### **The Art of Agile Product Documentation**

### **Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast**

### **BeTheTalk With Nathan Eckel**

### **Looking for Work as a Scrum Master? Choose Wisely.**

### **Canada’s Phoenix Payroll Catastrophe**

## **2017**

### **A Scrum Team Increases Their Velocity by Doing Less Work**

### **Leadership of Agile Organizations**

### **A Week in the Life of a Scrum Team**

## **2016**

### **A Book Review: “The Great ScrumMaster”, by Zuzana Šochová**

### **Etymology of ‘Management’**

## **2015**

### **A Lean Startup is Going to Eat Your Lunch**

## **2014**

### **Agile Startups**

## **2012**

### **Rethinking Education**

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