Product Ownership
Agile & DevOps consultancy
Training
About me
For me the most important thing is finding ways to help companies in creating the best possible products and services. In this quest there are numerous tools, ways of working, environments, trends and frameworks that can help us in doing this secure, fast and reliable. Whether it is agile portfolio management or continuous delivery, Devops transitions or product visions, I always look for optimization the whole. For me this is the flow from strategic goals to customer feedback.
Scrum, XP, Kanban, LeSS, scaling & descaling...
Continuous integration, test automation (BDD, ATDD), continuous delivery, DevEx, incident management & agile...
Productising in enterprises, business strategy, product vision, impact mapping, story mapping, product canvas, refinement, data driven development...
Business goal validation, experiment driven development, backlog validation...
Blogposts
Better software sooner
Most methods, frameworks and technologies promise, some more implicitly than others, that they are the way to create products faster. Or better. Or both. Well, there is good and there is bad news. The bad news is that there is no magic all-containing one-size-fits-all solution that you can buy which results in better software faster. Read more about Better software sooner[…]
The myth of the perfect DevOps team
From Spotify to Scrum and DevOps The agile community, as any community, has an strong tendency for standardisation or fixed patterns. The widely used and discussed combo Spotify model and SAFe is a great example in my opinion. I believe that the gain for Spotify wasn’t the picture of their model but the journey they Read more about The myth of the perfect DevOps team[…]
There is no such thing as “the business”
In regards to agile stakeholder management there are two important patterns I often see: – Product Owners in general are really busy managing the “the business” or “the stakeholders” but no inventorisation and classification of these groups is being done. – While the business or stakeholders are not mapped, we pretend to exactly know what Read more about There is no such thing as “the business”[…]
The only 4 activities of a Product Owner.
I think that product ownership is one of the toughest, but at the same time best jobs I could ever think of. The thing is that a lot of product owners tend to be drawn to, or pulled in, the operational activities instead of proper product development. The true value and essence of product ownership Read more about The only 4 activities of a Product Owner.[…]
Wanted: BusDevUXSec TestSalesOps
Wanted: BusDevUXSecTestSalesOps senior software craftsman with passion for Scrum, expert on COBOL, Unikernels and ReactiveX “All Things are Difficult Before they are Easy” – Thomas Fuller. Well, in regards to all that’s expected from software developers nowadays, we are certainly doing a proper job in creating expectations that are difficult to fulfil. If we would Read more about Wanted: BusDevUXSec TestSalesOps[…]
The perfect Product Owners flow
Since my first projects when I started experimenting with extreme programming and Scrum I was intrigued by the importance of the Product Owner role and the lack of support to be found. So I started to search for tools and techniques which could support PO’s in their work so we all would benefit and start Read more about The perfect Product Owners flow[…]
Impact mapping and continuous validation
There is always a reason for making software. Let’s rephrase that: there should always be a reason, at least from a business perspective. How else could our products have any impact? Whether we want to make an app that that seamlessly connects riders to drivers or build a community where you can hire and rent apartments while Read more about Impact mapping and continuous validation[…]
Crap on the carpet
I had a talk once with a developer who complained about the status of their codebase. He showed me a piece of code and after we had a shared “Ooh THAT is crappy code” moment, he closed the file and continued his work. business as usual. “Erm, yeah but…did you just…why don’t you….what?…” It’s like Read more about Crap on the carpet[…]
A man went to the doctor…
“Hello Doctor, I have epicondylitis lateralis and I think we can fix that with Shockwave therapy. Shockwave is a brand new treatment that is faster, cheaper and better than all the other methods. Everyone I know does it. Don’t bother looking that up for I’ve done some research on the internet. It’s the best there is. Read more about A man went to the doctor…[…]
Stop starting with Scrum
Don’t worry: I am not going to jump on the “agile is dead and a failure” bandwagon. I do not want you to stop working with Scrum. I just want you to stop starting with it. A lot of companies realize something’s got to change in order to survive. Especially software development departments feel the Read more about Stop starting with Scrum[…]