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When Agile Meets Resistance

You’ve probably heard Agile being described as a novel way of navigating productivity at work, that it could boost collaboration, and uplift your teams into a well-oiled machine. That’s what they say, but how true is this? Especially in the IT culture?

In reality, when Agile is incorporated into traditional IT culture, it seems like a wreck than a harmonious integration. The resistance is strong with this ...

Scrum Has Become a Nice Term to Hide Bad Management

Once a wise man said: Fire all Scrum Masters and your non-technical managers who run your IT departments, and watch your productivity to boost up! In most cases, all you need is to hire highly-experienced Tech Leads and show trust in them. Communicate with them and share your insights, answer their questions, and provide them with what they need, including but not limited to the bu...

ScrumBan... Is it real? Or just Camouflage?

Let’s get this straight.

Every time someone tells me they’re doing Scrumban, I raise an eyebrow. Not because I doubt hybrids. Hybrids can be powerful. But because in my experience, Scrumban is rarely a sign of maturity — it’s usually a cry for help.

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How to Engage Busy Stakeholders - Mike Cohn

We often find ourselves reliant on others outside the team.
For example, an agile team may get stuck waiting for feedback on the latest features or input on what to build next because a key stakeholder has never shown up for a sprint review. Without that stakeholder’s feedback, the team is impeded: unable to determine if what they’ve created is what’s needed.
The team nags, pleads, a...

Clarity Is the Secret Weapon of Agile!

We often mistake transparency for clarity. Transparency just means the information is available. Clarity means you can actually see. Clarity is not dumping everything on the table. It’s making sense of it. It’s vision. It’s seeing...

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Burnout Is NOT a Agile Problem - It Is A Planning Problem

I remember a sprint planning meeting a few months ago, and I knew the sprint was doomed before it even started. Not because of bugs or blockers — those we could handle. It was the way everyone looked during planning: like we were gearing up for a marathon we hadn’t trained for.

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5 “Healthy” Habits That Are Quietly Aging You

1. You swapped breakfast for a smoothie.
2. You do long cardio and skip weights.
3. You religiously avoid fat.
4. You graze all day.
5. You think stress management means just relaxing.

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Is Scrum Dying? Or Are We Just Doing It Wrong?

Scrum used to be king. Now people don’t even want it on their CV.

Remember when being a Product Owner was cool? When Scrum Masters were change agents, not glorified note-takers?

When saying “we use Scrum” signalled progressive, Agile thinking?

Fast forward to now, and you’ll find Product Owners ashamed of the title, Scrum Masters sidelined, and developers stuck in factory-mode delivery.

Tea...

Is it ever OK to deviate from the Scrum Guide? - Mike Cohn

I’m out there on social media and I see all the same posts you do about the sanctity of the Scrum rules. And I get it. There are many rules of Scrum that teams break when they shouldn’t. But I don’t think it does anyone any good to be so hung up on rules that you throw practicality out the window.
Here’s the thing: No team should break a Scrum rule before they’ve tried to...

The 5 Stages of Leadership

1. The Doer — You deliver results by doing everything yourself.
2. The Fixer — You solve everyone else’s problems.
3. The Enabler — You empower others to solve problems and grow.
4. The Multiplier — You build systems that scale others’ success.
5. The Shaper — You shape culture, vision, and the next generation of leaders.

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Scrum Masters, You’re Not Just the Meeting Person

You set up the standup, run a clean retro, update the board — and yet, nothing really changes. Dependencies still hit late. Stakeholders still ask for fixed timelines. The team’s doing its best, but it always feels like someone outside is pulling the rug. Sound familiar?

That’s because agility doesn’t stop at the team boundary. And if you’re only coaching inside the circle, you’re mis...

$1 from 130,000 Strangers: Bella’s Viral Mission to Reclaim Her Great-Aunt’s Home

Fourteen-year-old Bella had a dream: to bring back into her family the little 1950s house next door — the home that once belonged to her great-aunt and uncle. With six brothers and sisters, a part-time job at her dad’s sno-cone stand, and a barely-used TikTok account, she launched a wildly ambitious idea: what if 130,000 people each sent $1 to help her...

Agile Coaches Can’t Fix What Leadership Keeps Breaking

You can run the cleanest standups, the best retros, and the most motivated team workshops — and still feel like you’re sprinting in circles.

Because if leadership isn’t on board, the system breaks faster than you can coach it. It’s the silent pain many Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches carry: you’re hired to drive agility, but you’re blocked by decisions made way above your influen...

Setting and Managing Expectations - Mike Cohn

My first Scrum project was incredibly successful, yet it was almost a failure.
All of the technical aspects of the project were going extremely well. We were ahead of schedule, stress and scalability tests showed that we'd exceed uptime and reliability goals. Everyone on the team was having fun and doing their best work.
The problem was that user expectations had been growing f...

How to Say No Without Killing Innovation

Have you also felt stretched too thin, saying “yes” to everything and watching your product get bloated and unfocused? I’ve been there. As a PM, you know that saying no isn’t just necessary it’s your secret weapon for driving meaningful product impact.

But let’s be clear: saying no doesn’t mean stifling ideas or shutting down innovation. It’s about strategically selecting what to build, and co...

Scrum IS a Delivery Framework - NOT a Ceremonial Cult

They say Scrum is easy to understand, hard to master.
I’d say it’s easy to misunderstand, and even easier to fake.

Let’s not talk about standups, reviews, or retrospectives just yet.
Let’s start deeper — from the inside out.

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Teacher Reveals Heartbreaking Reason Behind Her Ocean-Themed Classroom

One teacher was used to her father's support in everything from big dreams to classroom decor, but after his sudden death in March 2025, that steady presence was gone

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Symptoms Of Moving Without a Vision

In the absence of a clear and shared vision, every team, leader, and individual will fill that gap with their own beliefs, experiences, and expectations. It may appear to be “diversity of opinion,” but in practice, it often results in misalignment. Every strategic conversation becomes a clash of narratives.

This fragmentation of understanding is just one of many symptoms of a lack of product vision...