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Five Things You Should Know as a Leader Implementing AI

1. There is no playbook... Yet
2. Do NOT be afraid to experiment
3. AI technology advances quickly
4. AI will NOT solve everything
5. Be a responsible leader when implementing AI

BONUS - Find the right coach / trainer when implementing AI. Do not go at it alone. You will waste too much time learning outdated materials.

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3 Key Lessons From My First Product Role

My first product role shaped how I lead. I learned about true ownership, deep business impact, and competition that goes beyond features. Working with a visionary CEO in a product-led company taught me lessons that still guide me. PMs, are you embracing these to drive real impact?

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A few years ago, I was in a business review meeting with my team, looking at charts and reports that showed how our business was doing. The numbers didn’t look good, and as everyone around the table shared their thoughts, it became clear that no one agreed on what to do next. There were a lot of ideas, worries, and quick fixes — but not much clarity.

I realized then that my job wasn’t just about making decisions; it was about seeing...

Three Ways to Handle Unfinished Work - Mike Cohn

Over the past three weeks, I’ve been sending you tips about spillover on agile teams. We’ve talked in depth about the problem of habitual spillover—when a team routinely rolls unfinished work forward from sprint to sprint.
This week, I want to share 3 ways to handle the unfinished work that will occasionally be left over by even a great agile team.
 

1. If You Want a Guarantee, B...

Is the Party Over For Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches?

Over the past decade, agile adoption in organizations has seen an upswing. Large enterprises—banks, insurance companies, automakers, and many others—have all been at the forefront of launching agile transformations to achieve business agility—the elusive elixir. The promise of increased flexibility, faster delivery, and enhanced collaboration across teams is almost impossible t...

Five Most Forgotten Parts From The Scrum Guide

Scrum. Love it or hate it. There doesn’t appear to be much in between. I like the framework, although I don’t think it is perfect. At the same time, I understand the developers who hate it from the bottom of their hearts. Strangely enough though, they have different problems with Scrum than I have. And zooming in, their problems often are not about Scrum in the first place. They shed li...

Dependencies Destroy Agility and Predictability

Why do organizations desire Agile?

Two of the most common items I hear organizations and executives identify as reasons for adopting Agile methods and practices are to increase their delivery speed and to become more predicable. When will X be done? There are valid financial reasons for these goals such as: when can we expect to book revenue for product X?

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7 Tips To Read Someone’s Personality in 10 Seconds

People think it takes ages to really figure out what someone’s about, like you need to sit with them through a few heartbreaks, swap childhood trauma stories, maybe even get caught in a road trip disaster together.

Nah.

Give it ten seconds, maybe even less if they’re the loud, obvious type, and you’ll get everything you need to know.

And this isn’t about “vibes” or whatever people say ...

6 Daily Habits of Highly Effective Scrum Masters

1. Start Each Day With a Quick Review
2. Lead Effective Daily Scrums
3. Make Time For One-on-Ones
4. Keep Communication Open With Stakeholders
5. Dedicate Time For Continual Learning
6. Reflect and Plan For Tomorrow

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Scrum Fails When Product Owners Think They Are The Boss

I’m afraid that everyone interprets it differently, and that’s the source of problems. For me, the word owner is misleading. As a Product Owner, you own nothing, though you may think you do.

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Why Your Scrum Teams Are Failing - The Hard Truth

Agile was presented to me as the ultimate project management approach — promising productivity, transparency, and value delivery in short bursts. However, many teams struggled to effectively implement and scale Scrum, missing the mark on its potential.

Waterfall was declared a relic of the past — outdated, painfully inefficient, and completely incapable of keeping up with the demands ...

Product Owners vs. Product Managers vs. Project Managers

While you are knee-deep looking for your next role, I’ve seen endless variations of “product” roles. Specifically, the terms Product Owner (PO), Product Manager (PM), and Project Manager (PjM) seem to be used interchangeably, or even used to describe the same person. Yet, some teams have all three within each individual squad.

So, what’s the difference between these three roles...

The Great Agile Reset

1. Framework Fatigue Is Real

Marty Cagan nailed it recently: “The product model addresses three major dimensions: how you decide which problems to solve (product strategy), how you solve these problems (product discovery), and how you build, test, and deploy your solutions (product delivery). Real Agile can certainly help with this third dimension.” (Source.)

Translation: Organizations are done with copying and p...

How to Break the Spillover Habit - Mike Cohn

For the past two weeks, I’ve been writing about the problem of habitual spillover—when a team routinely rolls over unfinished work from sprint to sprint.
So far, we’ve talked about why spillover happens, and why it’s a problem, plus I’ve given steps to start a reduction in your team’s spillovers.
This week, I want to share two ways to break your team’s rollover habit.
 

Someti...

Grow Your Product Management Skills

Managing a product through the product life cycle is hard. It is even more difficult to grow as a product owner in these challenging times. Product ownership is a very complex and multifaceted challenge. And because of the complexity of the topic, there is no single linear approach to mastering product ownership. That’s why we need agile and lean approaches and a wide range of knowledge and skills...