Team Systems
The operating systems behind healthy teams: product ownership, planning, process, and flow.
← All writingIn Celebration of the Product Owner
The product owner is the most undervalued role in software. Every team that skips it pays the price in rework, missed sprints, and developers building the wrong thing.
You're Reading DORA Backwards
DORA metrics tell you what elite teams look like. They don't tell you how to become one. Most engineering leaders get this backwards. And it's costing them.
Developers on Islands
When each developer owns their slice of the codebase and nobody else knows how it works, your team's velocity number is a fiction. Here's what it costs.
Splitting Stories: The Skill That Makes or Breaks Sprint Velocity
One of the surest ways to kill a team's productivity is to saddle it with large stories. The tricky part is they don't always look large on the surface.
Your Team Is Doing Scrum. Does It Understand Scrum?
Most teams that 'do Scrum' have learned the ceremonies but missed the point. The ceremonies are not the methodology. They're just the surface.
Skills You Need as a Dev Manager: Product Owner
A development manager cannot lead delivery without understanding product ownership. Someone has to turn vision into sequence, protect priorities, and define work small enough to ship.