How to ruin a Product Owner’s life
One of the roles of a Scrum Master is to improve the effectiveness of the Product Owner by helping him manage the Product Backlog, design and communicate the Product Goal, and facilitate his ability to maximize the resulting value of the team. It is much more fun to...
The company as a human organization
An organization, of whatever type, is the composition of nodes related by associations. If these nodes are eliminated, what remains is structure, which exposes the interactions. What is important in any ensemble is not those nodes, but the ascending, descending and...
OKR and KPI, and adaptive metrics
We don’t know what a KPI, an OKR or a metric is. We like the acronyms and use them because many years ago we heard them from a guy in a tie along with the words “synergy” and “quick win”. We apply these concepts interchangeably because...