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Driving Value with Sprint Goals: Humble Plans, Exceptional Results
Driving Value with Sprint Goals: Humble Plans, Exceptional Results

Leverage Sprint Goals to Supercharge Teamwork and Build Winning Products

2023

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Maarten Dalmijn
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Bye Medium

The time has come to go into hibernation. — I’m grateful for how Medium has helped me to grow my online presence and personal brand. However, I don’t see any benefit to becoming bigger on a platform that limits how I can engage with all my followers. What is the point of more followers if you can’t reach them? …

Product Management

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Product Management

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About Me

I stopped writing on Medium. If you want to stay updated on my latest articles then register to my newsletter at mdalmijn.com. If you want to work with me head over to dalmyn.com. 🖖 My name is Maarten Dalmijn. I help teams beat the Feature Factory and discover better ways…

Product Management

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About Me
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Product Management

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Why roadmaps reflect the level of Agile inadequacy

The Penguin Principle for Agile transformations — I was in the fifth and final round for a Product Owner position. I remember being tired of responding to all kinds of questions, often the same I had answered before. Especially considering I already jumped through quite a few hoops— I had completed a personality test and an intelligence…

Product Management

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Why roadmaps reflect the level of Agile inadequacy
Why roadmaps reflect the level of Agile inadequacy
Product Management

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UX Collective

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User Stories are ill-suited for expressing requirements

Splitting User Stories into more User Stories often means you are deceiving yourself (and your users too!) — Nussi Einhorn posted the following picture on LinkedIn: The left-hand side of the image portrays a confusing mess of User Stories. Try scanning them and getting the gist — you won’t. The right-hand side of the picture showcases a crisp and clear alternative by using descriptive titles that summarize the…

UX

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User Stories are ill-suited for expressing requirements
User Stories are ill-suited for expressing requirements
UX

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Serious Scrum

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The only thing that matters when planning a Sprint

Crafting a clear and overarching Sprint Goal during Sprint Planning — Boxer Mike Tyson once said: “Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” — Mike Tyson In military warfare a similar saying exists: “No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.” — Helmuth von Moltke the Elder No matter how much time you spend planning, you can…

Scrum

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The only thing that matters when planning a Sprint
The only thing that matters when planning a Sprint
Scrum

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Apr 16

My Book Goes To Production

I struggle with perfectionism. Nothing is ever good enough. I had to learn to be proud, even when I kept noticing all the things that were wrong or could be better. That's why my book going into production is a big step for me. Your book going into production means…

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My Book Goes To Production
My Book Goes To Production

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Signalbound

·Aug 22, 2022

Unwarranted faith in the GANTT

The biggest tragedy of the one-year feature GANTT chart, together with precise timelines, is not that we will deliver less value by operating as a Feature Factory. The true disaster is the death spiral of demotivation. Let me break down what I’ve often seen happen: • One of the first big…

Product Management

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Unwarranted faith in the GANTT
Unwarranted faith in the GANTT
Product Management

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Signalbound

·Aug 8, 2022

You can’t prevent the mess

These two blockbuster movies show the messy nature of complex work, though what comes out is the opposite of a mess. The two movies had opposite starting points: Movie A : They knew from the outset they were trying to do things nobody had done before. …

Product Management

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You can’t prevent the mess
You can’t prevent the mess
Product Management

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Signalbound

·Jul 28, 2022

“It’s almost done”

Famous last words at the Daily Scrum. I have heard them repeated many times over. “It is done but not yet tested” is another example. And then it still turns out it it isn’t done — “We need a bit more time”. And then it is almost done again, yet…

Scrum

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“It’s almost done”
“It’s almost done”
Scrum

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Signalbound

·Jul 27, 2022

Ask a Product Owner #3 — Stakeholder Management

💡 Please let me know what topic should I address in a future session of ‘Ask a Product Owner’! 💡 On LinkedIn, all my connections and followers had the opportunity to ask any burning question they might have related to Stakeholder Management. I’ve packaged all the questions anonymously here together…

Product Management

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Ask a Product Owner #3 — Stakeholder Management
Ask a Product Owner #3 — Stakeholder Management
Product Management

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