The Commons Trap: How Invisible “Owners” Devour Your Team’s Potential
chatGPTs rendering of the tragedy of the commons from the point of view of a developer
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Explore the Rock Crusher – Off Roadmap Rocks
The Rock Crusher is a tool to help us visualize a roadmap of known rocks that might flow through a backlog. However, some of the […]
The Rock Crusher: It Takes a Village to “Own a Product
One lesson most agile practitioners learn quickly is that it takes a village to own a product. Most agile frameworks present backlog management as a […]
What did 50 Business Analysts Say Were their Biggest Challenges with Backlog Management?
Our May 8th 2023 BBC Workshop : The Backlog is Broken – Here is How We Can Fix It During our Rock Crusher workshop at […]
Are You Really the Product Owner? No Really?
Originally published July 2017, this is when we began to argue that many roles are rolled into the product owner. This is also the first […]
Put the Backlog at the Center of the Team!
Originally published April 2017, this blog post was the first time we wrote about how the backlog could disconnect the team from customers. Most models […]
End the User Story Tyranny!
Originally Published in March 2017, this was a forerunning to developing the concept of a Rock. User stories are one example of a well-formed Rock. […]