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Late Descoping Is Pure Incompetence
Amateurs descope when they run out of time. Professionals descope before it's even necessary.
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The Sisyphean Tragedy of Planning
Stop Trying To PUSH Rocks Up-Hill Like Sisyphus
Feb 10
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The Seven Laws of Rules
Rules, Competence and Trust: The Hidden Cost of Rules
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11 Laws of Software Estimation for Complex Work
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12 Common Mistakes Made When Using Story Points
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Scrum: Failure By Design?
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Roman Estimation: A Simple, Easy and Quick Alternative to Story Points
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The Era of Copy-Paste Agile Is Over
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Are Scrum Masters Too Much Overhead?
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Delivering Shit Was Never the Bottleneck, Except For Truly Shitty Organizations
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Red Vs Blue Roadmaps: Why Most Roadmaps Suck
The Tax of (False) Predictability
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Escaping the 'Bloat Mode' of Your Brain
Hurt Your Brain Today or Be Tortured Later
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Simplicity Is MORE Work
You Can't Subtract Without Iteration
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The Stars We No Longer See
Amusing Ourselves to Death - A Brave New World of AI
Dec 11, 2025
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The Slipstream Model of Competence
Why a High-Trust Environment Is More Important Than Working With Smart People
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Better Than Post-Mortems: The Meta Post-Mortem
Focusing Beyond Singular Incidents
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