For years we've heard the phrase “content is king.” And while content is still important, I think it's time to crown a new king. Today, I think it's fair to say that context is king.

O caminho para a maturidade do Product Owner culmina no nível de "Empreendedor", mas a realidade operacional muitas vezes impede que o PO atue como o verdadeiro Maximizador de Valor. Este artigo explora o paradoxo do PO que domina o Scrum e o EBM, mas vive "preso na lama" de tarefas burocráticas. De...

Your anxiety about AI is a signal, not a verdict. Instead, consider: What would remain of your professional value if you removed every framework name and certification from your resume? Whatever that is: Invest there.

AI is rewiring Scrum Teams. Smaller crews, faster experiments, TDD renaissance. But Scrum's core stays unchanged. Why empiricism wins in the AI era.

“Performing” in Scrum isn’t a role label. It’s a reality check: the people doing the work must see the real work, in real time, or they’ll guess and everyone else gets a prettier story.

Während die meisten agilen Praktiker noch über die Relevanz von KI diskutieren, habe ich sie einfach genutzt – über zwei Jahre hinweg, von einfachen Korrekturen bis hin zu autonomen KI-Agenten. Jede Phase lehrte mich, was die vorherige nicht konnte. Das Zeitfenster, diese Kompetenz aufzubauen, ist o...

Are Backlog Items traceable requirements as we know them from requirements engineering or are they something different?

This whitepaper by PST Rob van Lanen shares practical ways to get started with prompting, drawn from hands-on work and intended for direct application.

The window of opportunity to build your AI competence is open now, but it will not remain open indefinitely. Start acting.

Decision infrastructure solves time poverty: clear decision rights, decision-ready evidence, and learning capture eliminate coordination waste - freeing analytical capacity for judgment at decision velocity.

Product Owners can help manage dependencies through the content and ordering of the Product Backlog. And unfortunately, a lot of them have to spend a lot of time doing this, because their products are defined too narrowly as component teams.

Emergent doesn’t mean “we’ll figure it out later.” It means reality will reveal new work, risks, and misunderstandings continuously—so you’d better make it visible to the team and the people receiving the work.

To get quality output from AI, you should know how to communicate with it effectively. Let's check 10 ways together.

Scrum is not an end unto itself. It's a great tool for helping a team focus on value, but the goal isn’t to “do Scrum.” The goal is to maximize value for the customer. Choosing the right metrics can help ensure that we are all focused on the right outcomes.

Das A3-Framework unterstützt Sie bei der Entscheidung, ob KI eine Aufgabe übernehmen sollte (Assist, Automate, Avoid). Der A3-Handoff-Canvas hilft Ihnen, dies ohne Qualitäts- oder Verantwortlichkeitsverlust durchzuführen.

Six Questions That Turn AI Delegation Into a Repeatable Workflow

Transparency isn’t a Jira board. It’s when everyone reads the same reality from your artifacts. This post shows why low transparency quietly drives bad decisions and risk—and gives you simple checks to spot “multiple meanings”

In Part 2 of this Q&A series stemming from questions in the webinar, Managing Your AI Teammate, Eric Naiburg continues the conversation with Darrell Fernandes, diving deeper into how AI is reshaping the way Scrum Teams work. (21:32 Minutes)

I find that when people start to actually use Scrum, they often forget that they are supposed to be a team. They assign each individual a task or Product Backlog Item, and then that individual goes off and works on it alone.

Scrum Masters (at least in my part of the world) are often people seeking the transition to the role of a ‘Manager’ or a management position. However, when they land into this role amongst a highly technical team, they become clueless. This is because the one thing that they were moving away from be...

Scrum Mastery is a craft that requires the right environment and a clear focus on the value chain to truly take off. Drawing from a decade of experience, PST Simon Flossmann shares five essential steps I wish I had known sooner to help you master the role and deliver real impact.

83% of Agile practitioners use AI, but most spend 10% or less of their time with it because they do not know where it fits. Learn more.

El enfoque de producto es una mentalidad que parte de centrarse en el cliente y sus necesidades para entregar valor de una manera ágil, flexible, adaptativa e innovadora. Es un cambio radical desde el enfoque de proyectos, que muchas veces se basa en hitos y tareas a cumplir dentro de un plan con un...

An order-taking Product Owner leads to backlog chaos and constant priority shifts. Learn why this behavior is a system issue and how teams can preserve clarity and self-management in this post by PST Robb Pieper.

Most people think of negotiation as a formal process, i.e., contracts, vendors, and high-stakes deals. The thing is that product leaders negotiate every day, for instance, with stakeholders, teams, leadership, sales, and so on. These small decisions shape product outcomes.

This report synthesizes the findings of the Agile Product Operating Model Survey conducted by Scrum.org, which assessed the alignment of organizational practices with modern agile and product-centric principles. The analysis reveals that while a strong desire for value-driven development exists, org...

When you limit work in progress, it makes pretty much everything from waterfall to Scrum better.

A practical way to leverage AI to increase the Sprint Review effectiveness.

In diesem Artikel erklärt PST Simon Flossmann, wie Product Owner das Wunschkonzert in ihren Backlog beenden.

Learn how to leverage AI to create a step-by-step action plan to resolve the conflicts you see in the Scrum Team.

In this blog, I explain the motivation behind the creation of the new self-paced training course, "Effective Stakeholder Collaboration for Scrum Teams" that I created with Glaudia Califano and is endorsed by Scrum.org.

Has it ever happened on your Scrum Team, that you get into a Sprint Planning session and by the end of it, it still feels that there is no plan for the Sprint?

How do you enter a lengthy prompt to an AI system that you use regularly? Let me show you a powerful way that saves you a lot of time.

Self-managing teams are how strategy comes to life. They’re also how organizations know when strategy needs to shift. In this article, we explore the building blocks of self-managing teams, what keeps organizations stuck, and practices that help.

The paradigm shift is here. Andrej Karpathy, former Tesla AI director and OpenAI co-founder, recently admitted he has never felt this far behind as a programmer. If Karpathy feels overwhelmed, how should the rest of us feel?

Velocity is a widely used practice in Agile environments. But it has a big potential to be used in the wrong ways. Let's check them and see how to use velocity in a proper way.

What makes a Sprint valuable? If at the end of the Sprint, the Scrum Team is able to meet the goal and stakeholders, users expectations. A Sprint is not just about delivering functionality, it is an opportunity to experiment and validate assumptions about what Value is being created or delivered. ...

The world isn’t slowing down. Technology is evolving faster than most organizations can keep up and we all know requirements are constantly changing. But we don’t need a better plan - we need better ways to learn, and we need to keep our options open.

in diesem Artikel teilt PST Simon Flossmann drei Fragen, die sich jedes Scrum Team stellen sollte, wenn ihr Product Backlog mehr als 100 Einträge hat.

"Technical Debt" is a big topic in the Professional Scrum. This article addresses a specific new pain point: AI generates code fast (increasing Velocity), but creates massive maintenance debt. This warns Scrum Teams against false velocity.

Using the AQAL model provides a sophisticated framework for Scrum Teams to diagnose why a team followed the rules of Scrum but still failed in the delivery.

If you drive your car without a destination, you are NOWHERE at the end of the day. The Sprint Goal is the destination of your Sprint trip. You should learn how to effectively create it.

Scrum is everywhere, but too often it’s not delivering the results leaders expect. Join PSTs Robb Pieper and Jason Malmstadt of Responsive Advisors and Scrum.org as they unpack the most common reasons Scrum fails to deliver real value.

Self-managing teams with specialists and experts often fail quietly. The problem is not expertise. In this blog, PST Robb Pieper explains what actually breaks self-management and why most leaders miss it.

Free up your time to focus more on the human-centric and strategic activities as a Product Pro by leveraging AI Agents.

This blog explains how Product Goals set strategic direction while OKRs make progress measurable through behaviour focused Key Results. It shows how both tools support evidence based decisions, prevent output driven thinking, and help Scrum Teams stay aligned, learn faster, and deliver value with cl...

What will you get if you invest your time and money in learning AI?! Let's dissect it.

AI forces organizations to align machine speed with governance and funding. In doing so, it structurally closes Product Ownership's authority gap - distributed decisions, adaptive governance, and outcome funding become unavoidable.

Temporary fixes are supposed to be temporary. That's why Technical Debt should be on the Product Owner's radar.

In my practice, I get the chance to talk to a lot of different individuals from many organizations. Here are some of the things that really stood out to me about 2025.