TL; DR: Moving Beyond Agile Frameworks in the Agile Reset Remember my article from six months ago about reinventing Hands-on Agile to counter the great agile reset? (Just kidding; of course, you don’t.) Back then, I reflected on how to…
TL;DR: Stop Shipping Waste When product teams fail to establish stakeholder alignment and implement rigorous Product Backlog management, they get caught in an endless cycle of competing priorities, reactive delivery, and shipping waste. The result? Wasted resources, frustrated teams, and…
TL; DR: Escape the Feature Frenzy, Build to Sell with Sandrine Olivencia — Hands-on Agile 66 Join Sandrine Olivencia on how to escape the Feature Frenzy and build instead products and services that sell. (The recording is in English.) Watch…
TL; DR: Forensic Product Backlog Analysis Exercise The Forensic Product Backlog Analysis: A 60-minute team exercise to fix your Backlog. Identify what’s broken, find out why, and agree on practical fixes—all in five quick steps. There is no fluff, just…
TL; DR: Three Data Points Pointing to the Decline of the Scrum Master’s Role If you hang out in the “Agile” bubble on LinkedIn, the dice have already been cast: Scrum is out (and the Scrum Master), and the new…
TL; DR: Pure Scrum? Can you rely on pure Scrum to transform your organization and deliver value? Not always. While Scrum excels in simplicity and flexibility, applying it “out of the box” often falls short in corporate contexts due to…
TL; DR: The Lean Tech Manifesto with Fabrice Bernhard — Hands-on Agile #65 Join Fabrice Bernhard on how the “Lean Tech Manifesto” solves the challenge of scaling Agile for large organizations and enhances innovation and team autonomy. (The recording is in…
TL; DR: Product Team Empowerment Anti-Patterns Leadership anti-patterns often undermine product team empowerment — an essential success factor in Marty Cagan’s product operating model. These failures include micromanagement, overly rigid constraints, conflicting stakeholder demands, informal power struggles, and inadequate tools.…
TL;DR: Inverted MoSCoW The inverted MoSCoW framework reverses traditional prioritization, focusing on what a product team won’t build rather than what it will. Deliberately excluding features helps teams streamline development, avoid scope creep, and maximize focus on what truly matters.…
TL; DR: Why Leaders Support the Product Operating Model Despite Agile’s Failure Why might leaders turn to the Product Operating Model (POM) after a previous Agile transformation, for example, based on SAFe, failed? This article uncovers the psychological, organizational, and…
