Notes
Short thoughts on agile, Event Modeling, product discovery, delivery & operations. Mostly serious, sometimes not. Subscribe via RSS.
2026
2025
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Story Points II
It is quite intriguing that an agile concept of user story points was invented for estimating the cost instead of the value of the story it relates to, even though its…
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Garbage Disposal
It might be wrong to plan iterations by moving items from the overall backlog to the iteration backlog until it’s full. It reminds me of a garbage disposal.
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Story points
Story points can mean different things to different people. Some see them as the effort needed to complete all related tasks, while others consider them a complexity…
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Note to self II
I am on a team that works in a mob programming fashion, but we would very much like to be agile as well. What would be the best time to stop our session, get up, and do…
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Note to self I
Why is event sourcing still such a niche ‘product’? Logging almost every possible technical information, ranging from debug messages to all kinds of exceptions, is…
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Fullstack
When building a web UI for a product, the decision often comes down to which JS SPA framework to use. Another option might be worth considering if you already have a team…
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Storytelling
Everybody likes a good story. In the guide linked below about how to tell a story effectively, published by MasterClass (featuring instructors like Dan Brown and Salman…
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Event Modeling
A common practice of agile teams is estimating the cost or complexity of stories, quite often in collaborative planning poker sessions, while using story points as units…
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Genesis
I reread Shape Up again. Since I am impressed with the Event Modeling approach and have been playing with it quite a lot recently, I wonder whether the two could indeed…
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Shit happens
In my previous life, I was the founder and managing director of a pretty successful company for almost two decades. One afternoon, working in our office, I noticed some…
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Highly Motivated
What I find incredibly motivating is that there is a person on my team who comes into our office every day at the same time whom we call master, gets me to stand up each…
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Scrum Butler
I think that Scrum Master is a regrettable name for the role. It sounds like a management role with a significant level of authority already. Maybe that’s one of the…
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Scaling Agile
The other day, I stumbled upon a visual overview of one of the popular agile scaling frameworks. Initially, I felt overwhelmed as I spent a long time searching for a…