When planning and developing digital products, we need to carefully choose which features to develop and with what priority. We need to figure out which feature has what value to whom. While many stakeholders are intuitively aware that the value of some features is different from the value of other…

What makes a good product? When does a product become successful? When does a startup or a company become successful? Developing good products does not depend on chance. Everyone can develop good products if he uses the right methods. One of the most important methods to develop good products is…

Software development and the development of digital products can and should be seen as an investment. An investment that must pay off at the end of the day. And it doesn’t matter whether the product is built for an internal “customer”, i.e. another department, or for a real customer outside…

What a leader has to do to lead Scrum Teams to success — Scrum is a self-organized approach that has the potential to make everyone involved in a project happy. Scrum and agile methods generate win-win situations. Because with agile methods the team enjoys a lot of freedom and is always motivated to become better and to achieve goals. But self-organization, motivation and…

If you listen around in the product management community, you will always come across certain beliefs and myths about product market fit and product management. Beliefs that are presented as if they were the only truth. And if you are stuck in small talk and don’t reflect on what is…

How to avoid smelly code and write clean code constantly. — How does it exist? We all want to write clean code and especially read clean code and yet it happens again and again that we are doomed with bad code full of code smells. Do you know this situation, in a new project everything starts very easy and over time…

Mindset of a Software Engineer — Imagine the following situation: You go to the hospital for a scheduled surgery, nothing serious, a minor procedure with local anesthesia. You get to the waiting room and there is garbage everywhere, it is dirty and smells funny. The staff at the reception desk is busy, and they only say…

Again and again, I am asked by successful managers what needs to be done in order to carry out a successful agile transformation in the organization. And the answer is always right there in the question. A digital transformation is a transformation. In a transformation, so much has to change…

Unfortunately, we keep hearing very critical voices regarding agile methodology and Scrum. Software developers or managers question why agile software development should be better than the previous way of working, which delivered steady results and brought them to the goal. But, too often, agile methods such as OKR or Scrum…