Articles

2026

‘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

2025

Agile Practices and Developer Autonomy

Thank you, Scrum

When To Use Scrum?

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

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?

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

Pssst…You’re Allowed to Stop Using Jargon

2023

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

How To Prevent Another Phoenix Pay System Inferno

Complexity, Empiricism, and the Agile Origin Story

2022

What Is Kanban?

What Is Scrum?

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

2021

Sometimes ‘Transparency’ Just Means Not Lying

A Story of Release Gates: An Antipattern

Continuous Deployment Is Now Table Stakes

Post-Covid Office Environments & Team Structures

Farewell, Taylorism.

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

2019

Le Sprinkler: L’agilité en podcast

Stop Using Projects to Make Products

Phoenix Payroll Catastrophe — Why Canada is Destined to Repeat It

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

Agile Reports for the Project Manager’s Brain

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

2016

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

Etymology of ‘Management’