Category: Scrum
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Scrum Fables: Retroactive Solutions
I’ve sat through both kinds of reflection meetings: the ones where nothing changes (frustrating, pointless, soul-draining)… and the ones where even a tiny adjustment makes everything smoother next time. This fable is about that difference.
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Scrum Fables : A Faster Horse
When people wheel out that fake quote about “faster horses,” I always imagine one with rockets strapped to its sides. It’s surprisingly common for people to mistake a solution for the solution — without really understanding the problem they’re trying to solve.
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Scrum Fables: The Plan
I’ve been reading a lot of fables lately, and I had the idea to use them to show how things can go wrong with Scrum (though they apply just as well outside of Scrum). I’ve seen many tasks that are literally just a title and no details, and then people try to implement that. This…
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The Definition of “Bug” Is a Mute Point—Here’s How We Fixed It
When everything’s a bug, nothing is. When no one agrees what “bug” means, the list just keeps growing. And growing. This is a story about how we think we understand a word—and what happens when we don’t agree on what it actually means. And why defining “bug” was the fix we didn’t know we needed.
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Scrum Doesn’t Work Without This One Thing
Think Scrum fails because the stories are bad? Or the process is wrong? Nope. It’s something deeper—and way more human.
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How One Question Saved Weeks of Work
A team where no one asks questions might feel safe — but it’s not. Questions aren’t a problem; they find the problems before it’s too late. This post explores how one question saved weeks of work, and why “no questions” is never a good sign.
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Why Staying True to Yourself Might Not Work — But Still Matters
Some battles you lose. Some ideas don’t land. But when you speak up, stay calm, and stay true to what you believe—you don’t walk away empty-handed. This is a story about values, failure, and the quiet kind of pride that lasts.
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Scrum, Actually: Fixing the Daily Catch-Up
We treated the Daily Scrum like a list of things done. But work isn’t about what happened yesterday—it’s about what we choose to do today. This is how we turned a meeting of fear into a culture of trust.
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Scrum by Induction: Why Nobody Reads the Rules
I learned Scrum by watching someone who didn’t know Scrum copy someone else who also didn’t know Scrum. This is the story of how I finally read the rules—and realised most of us are playing the wrong game.
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Scrum, Actually: Confessions of a Reluctant Scrum Master
I thought Scrum was nonsense—until I actually did it right. This is the story of how I became a reluctant Scrum Master… and accidentally built teams that were happy, productive, and weirdly functional.
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It Isn’t What It Is: Why ‘It Is What It Is’ Breaks Teams
“It is what it is.”The corporate shrug. The conversation killer. The ultimate non-justification.This phrase doesn’t solve problems—it cements them.In this post: why it quietly ruins teams, what leaders should say instead, and how to respond without throwing your monitor out the window. The phrase “It is what it is” is terrible. And here’s why: But…
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A Dancing Monkey Can Pelvic Thrust a Thousand Words
A terrible dancer. A loop of unearned confidence. A monkey with no self-awareness and too much thrust. This emoji isn’t just chaos — it’s a mirror.
Davide la Locomotive 