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Product Manager own the product while the product owner manage it. Scrum Manager work both towards management and the team and everyone is an engineer, but have no scientific approach to anything they do. Sometimes I feel that the world has gone mad and that titles as well as words are used without logic or even thought sometimes. A Product Owner, owns the product. A Product Manager, manages the product. It is defined in the titles themselves... A Scrum Manager is just a manager in a fake Sc

This week I started my new position as Atlassian Architect for Sii Sweden, an Atlassian Platinum partner, after a lightning fast interview phase. It has been quite the interesting week with onboarding and getting to know the massive organization that Sii International is. I am now working from a new location in Stockholm that I do not have been to very much, so it is interesting to explore the area as well. Some of you might know that I have been looking for a new employer after QRIOS decided to

You would think that becoming exponentially better at measuring and anticipating risks is something most organizations would spend time and money on. Especially since it is the core of making sure we create value from our work and to manage our financials as an organization. Just as we as a society benefit from learning from history so we can avoid wars and cultural destruction as well as genocide, surely we as organizations would emphasize on preventing disasters, both long term and short term

We have been told to think outside the box for so long, so maybe we are forgetting how to think INSIDE the box? We placed things in the box for a reason, but maybe we have forgotten why we did it in the first place? If we always think outside the box, why do we have the box at all and does that strange box we are supposed to think outside actually exist anymore? Personally I think the only thing that matters is that we THINK, regardless if it is inside or outside the box. Don't just do witho

If your goal is to build a road to the future where your vision is aimed, why do you insist on keep digging holes where you stand? What makes less sense is why you compare the speed with which you are digging those holes instead of measuring how far the road towards your vision you are getting? Unless your road to success is a hole straight to hell, perhaps it would make sense to lift your gaze towards the horizon instead of staring down at your feel at the bottom of the hole you are so franti

Your team is either an Engineering team building towards a vision, or a mining team digging up value as they find it. You can't do both. Many teams are confused about of these two and as a result they get the wrong result. If you are working with continuous deliveries then your goal is to always move towards your visions and goals. If you are working in a project, or in a R&D setting with ideation and exploration, then you are working towards finding as much value as you can in a set am

When people talk about technical debt I always wonder if the debt is intentional or just the result of not thinking things through properly. In my experience systems that are in bad shape tend to be so for a handful of reasons. - Little to no structure - Instead of having a strategy on how to build systems, people make things up as they go. With many people doing this, the end result is never good. - Little to no deep thinking - Instead of thinking things through properly people do a quick b

Is it fair to blame Agile for the stress related health issues affecting management? Are we sacrificing management for development teams to self-manage and if so is that a good thing or a bad thing? It is no secret that management has become increasingly more difficult in the wake of the Agile movement. At least in the part of the Agile movement where teams are self-isolating and making up their own way of working with no alignment with the rest of the organization. I have seen managers pass o

Your internal production systems are not toys. Using them as such and claiming it is so you can be "creative" is a clear indicator you and your organization are immature as an IT organization. Internal production systems are critical for your daily operation, otherwise you would not use them. Treating those systems as toys by not having proper governance for access, having little to no governance over integrations and allowing configurations without any strategy or governance is a disaster wait

DevOps should not need to be implemented, it should be the norm. An agile mindset should just be common sense. What you need to focus on is understanding and respect in 2025 so you can build a holistic governance organization that can capture all the amazing ideas on how to work better holistically together. Put the ready-made frameworks and methodologies you have floating around in all their bastardized forms aside and start building your own methodologies today. No buzzwords. No Made up ro

If you are running a project, then you use Project Management as the method. If you run multiple projects, then you run Program Management as a method. If you run continuous deliveries for a product or service, then you use product/service management as a methodology. If you write code in either of those, then you use whatever method you want that fit whatever framework you have selected. Your work is the same, and it is only the level of detailed requirement and time restrictions that are diff

If you are running a project, then you use Project Management as the method. If you run multiple projects, then you run Program Management as a method. If you run continuous deliveries for a product or service, then you use product/service management as a methodology. If you write code in either of those, then you use whatever method you want that fit whatever framework you have selected. Your work is the same, and it is only the level of detailed requirement and time restrictions that are diff

In a toxic workplace honesty is punished and silence is rewarded. In a toxic workplace your reaction to other's disrespect makes you the problem. If you speak up, then you are considered problematic, and you are branded as disloyal. If you are feeling that you must stay silent to avoid being branded as problematic or disloyal, that is a toxic workplace. If you feel that you must reduce yourself so you do not threaten others ego under the guise of the company mantra that you should be "easy to w