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🖖 My name is Maarten Dalmijn. I help teams beat the Feature Factory and discover better ways of delivering value together. I currently work as a Head of Product at Rodeo. ✔️I introduced Scrum at the fastest-growing start-up in the Netherlands. I helped the start-up to scale up its Product…

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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

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Why most Scrum Masters are destined to fail

What makes the Scrum Master role so extraordinarily demanding? — If you’ve seen Scrum being introduced at a company, then you probably have seen this before. The company is starting with Scrum and a Scrum Master is suddenly needed. The company asks a team who wants to be a Scrum Master. …

Agile

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Why most Scrum Masters are destined to fail
Why most Scrum Masters are destined to fail

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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

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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

Published in Signalbound

·6 days ago

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. They failed to make…

Product Management

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You can’t prevent the mess
You can’t prevent the mess

Published in Signalbound

·Jul 28

“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”

Published in Signalbound

·Jul 27

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

Published in Signalbound

·Jun 9

Ask a Product Owner #1: Refinement

On LinkedIn, I gave my connections and followers the opportunity to ask any burning question they might have related to refinement. I’ve bundled all the questions anonymously here together with my answers. I also sometimes bundled together variations on the same question (or because my answer to them is related). What is the purpose of refinement? …

Product Management

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Ask a Product Owner #1: Refinement
Ask a Product Owner #1: Refinement

May 23

Uncommon sense in software development

Uncommon sense in software development: Roadmaps are not planning all your features together with specific timelines MVP is not a release. Being Agile is useless without Doing Agile. If you expect your velocity to keep on increasing then you don’t understand velocity. Delivering working code is a slow and expensive…

Product Management

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Uncommon sense in software development
Uncommon sense in software development
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