STRIPS by Scrum Manager

Agility, in comic strips

Humour to recognise what's not quite so funny in your own team.

This week's strip

Four-panel comic strip: the Product Owner boasts in front of her monitor of 843 ideas without having lost a single one, and the AI on the screen points out that the oldest is five years old; the team's validator asks her to read number one hundred, and it is "dark mode for the printer"; the Product Owner sighs and archives, and the AI reports 823 archived, none of which had moved up in three years; the validator concludes that keeping everything isn't caring for it but hiding it, and when the client asks about his request, the Product Owner points out that it is number four now.

A Backlog Is Not a Junk Room

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The collection

A Backlog Is Not a Junk Room

A Dictated Diagnosis Is No Diagnosis

To Help or to Watch?

Is Anyone There?

Build What Someone Will Use

The Same Beat on Both Tracks?

The increment: done or it doesn't exist

The validation gate

Only People Cross the Last Column

Every strip hides a concept

Behind every panel there is an agile management concept and a link to keep pulling the thread.

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