Mary Iqbal

During my recent Professional Scrum Product Owner - Advanced  classes, one of the class participants - Anna Rosine - made the comment that "Band-aids last forever."  We were talking about technical debt and the tendency for organizations to do a quick fix, but then not come back around and, well, fix it. Band-aids are supposed to be temporary. You put one on, it does its job, and then you take it off. But in many organizations, band-aids have a funny way of sticking around far too long....

In my practice, I get the chance to talk to a lot of different individuals from many organizations. Here are some of the things that really stood out to me about 2025. 1) The Product Model One of the brightest spots of 2025 is that organizations really are beginning to adopt the Product Model — and this is where they are getting the most value. For too long, organizations have been adopting Agile but keeping a Waterfall mindset. In the misguided name of “efficiency,” they separated teams by...

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