Dependencies can be treated as blockers, but not all are the same. Sometimes you can identify alternatives and escape from the dependency.

If your organizational culture is dysfunctional, your teams cannot reach their highest potential. Discover what separates high- and low-performing teams.

Effective backlog management can make or break your product. By the same token, misunderstanding your backlog can lead to traps.

Despite calling ourselves scrum teams, we often aren’t equipped to learn fast enough. Here are three steps to improve your release management process and set your next deployment up for success.

A strategic roadmap can be a blessing or a curse. Discover what a strategic roadmap is (and isn’t), common antipatterns to avoid, and how to build one by looking at a real-world example.

Using the 80/20 elements, outcome, simplicity, progress, and satisfaction, will help you understand whether the last 20 percent of outcome is worth pursuing.

A crisis management plan should include proactive communication, rational prioritization of tasks, and a process to apply lessons learned.

Scrum isn’t evil by design. It’s just like a game of telephone — by the end, it’s nothing like what it’s supposed to be.

When teams are overwhelmed by unsustainable pressure to deliver more than they possibly can, their attention naturally shifts to maximizing output rather than improving processes.

There is no magic bullet or secret recipe to make your go-to-market a success every time, but these tips and insights will at least help you sleep at night.

Agile and predictability don’t mix. You could ignore capacity planning altogether and decline to make any promises on output, but that doesn’t always fly in business. This framework helps you focus on creating value.

Being a backlog owner pays well for a 9-to-5 job, but if you want to make a real impact, you need to take ownership of your product.