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Articles tagged with product-owner

5 min readAgileagilegoalsplanning

Every project I've watched go sideways had the same issue. Somebody says "scope creep," everyone nods, and the room decides to blame the Scrum Master for failing to prevent it, or the Product Owner for changing requirements. We should have pushed back harder. We should have had a change control process. We should have been more disciplined. We need more Agile. We need less Agile.

That's not what happened. In every one of those projects, I couldn't have told you in one sentence what the project was supposed to accomplish. Neither could anyone else in the room. Scope creep isn't a discipline problem. It's what fills the space where a goal should have been.

15 min readAgileagilescrumscrum-master

Ever notice how a well-run Scrum team feels suspiciously like a D&D campaign? The Scrum Master guides the narrative, developers bring specialized skills to overcome challenges, and everyone rolls dice (story points) to see how badly they've underestimated the complexity of "simple" tasks. After years of facilitating sprints and rolling d20s, I've realized these frameworks aren't just similar—they're practically the same game with different terminology.