Flow Over Friction: A Pragmatic View on Scaling Agile with SAFe APM
In recent years, SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) has become the lightning rod for criticisms of agile at scale. From startup veterans to enterprise reformers, many have echoed a…
RIP paper prototyping? Low-code platforms and the future of Product Discovery
In the age of low-code tools and AI-assisted prototyping platforms, it’s easy to wonder: Is there still a place for paper prototyping in product discovery? Modern tools like…
Service Design: A Product Management Perspective
What do users want? Organizations typically capture user demands in extensive documentation commonly known as ‘requirements’, align technical departments with ‘the business’, and start their development process, hopefully…
Consultancy As Bullshit Job (Part 3)
This is the third of three posts on David Graeber’s notion of the ‘bullshit job’: pointless work that becomes psychologically destructive in cultures that associate work with self-worth.…
Consultancy As Bullshit Job (Part 2)
This is the second of three posts on David Graeber’s notion of the ‘bullshit job’: pointless work that becomes psychologically destructive in cultures that associate work with self-worth.…
“For Complex Work, There Are No Experts”
Last week (December 12-13, 2019), I took part in a Professional Scrum Master (PSM) II training course hosted by Christiaan Verweijs and Barry Overeem, a.k.a. The Liberators. I…
Consultancy As Bullshit Job (Part 1)
The anthropologist David Graeber has introduced the notion of the ‘bullshit job’: pointless work that becomes psychologically destructive in cultures that associate work with self-worth. Bullshit jobs can…
Becoming Entrepreneurial: Maximizing the Impact of the Product Owner
In Scrum, the Product Owner is the person responsible for maximizing value, for example through prioritization of development work, engaging stakeholders, and learning from the market and customers.…