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How teams actually deliver: Scrum, product ownership, sprints and release strategies.

Scrum, Kanban, product ownership and flow: what I use day to day to make a team work better, from sprint reviews to branching strategies.

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2024

  1. Scrum and the army, a different kind of mission.

    Scrum isn’t a quick fix. It’s like planning a mission like the army. A sprint isn’t about speed, it’s about precision, teamwork, and adapting to the unknowns along the way.

  2. Hotfixing with Docker Artifacts in a Git Flow Strategy

    Master hotfixes in Kubernetes with Docker. Learn to rapidly deploy critical fixes in a CI/CD pipeline focusing on streamlined branching. Perfect for tackling urgent issues without disrupting flow. Dive in now.

  3. CI/CD pipeline with Docker and Git branching strategy

    Exploring CI/CD with Docker & Git. Mastering deploying Docker artifacts via Git branching. Dive into strategies for DEV, STAGING, PROD environments. Perfect your pipeline!

2023

  1. Sprint Reviews in high performance Scrum

    I first learned about Scrum way before the 2020 manifesto update was in place. So when we went to a Scrum master training after this 2020 release we had a nice little discussion about the change that has had the most impact with me since this update to the Scrum guide.

  2. The misinterpretation of the word “Sprint” within SCRUM

    Changing a word like "Sprint" wont mean anything if you dont foster an environment in which the words rush and haste aren't words that describe the work ethics. A sprint is just about an x week development cycle everyone understands, it shouldn't be at all related to haste and rush.

  3. From Traditional Businesses to DAOs: Opportunities for Product Owners

    I am already for a while intrigued by transforming a business into a DAO (Decentralized autonomous organisation). Thinking of my role as a Product Owner i thought of a way that can work very well when transforming a part of our business into a DAO

  4. A understood Subject Matter Expert

    Without a "good" SME (Subject Matter Expert) stance within SCRUM, every product is a lesser product then it can be. That's why this is one the most interesting misunderstood stances of a Product Owner to me.

  5. A journey into visual Scrum

    In this post, I will share the experiments we conducted during the last three sprints with our physical Scrum board. The focus was about creating a better understandable visual representation of our sprint progress. Sprints are two weeks increments for us at this moment.

  6. Achieving FLOW with Scrum

    In this post I share our current journey of implementing Scrum and Kanban principles with my team, this is mainly about emphasizing the importance of real collaborative work and instilling a product vision which helps us to achieve FLOW which translates to high value Scrum for us.

  7. Our sprints in real life

    This post explains how we as a team manage our current Board on which we keep our sprints. This board is leading over Jira we love working analog next to our digital work.