Two field manuals from the corporate trenches. One is a functional survival primer. The other is what happens when you watch that same primer get hijacked by middle management and weaponised into a secular death cult.
Dead-tree copies via Amazon if you want a physical bludgeon; complimentary PDFs if you’d rather not subsidise Jeff Bezos’s orbital bunker today.
Practical Scrum: A Guide to Surviving the Agile Apocalypse
(Also known in the folklore as Practical Scrum 2)
Your tactical field manual for cutting through pure operational bloat, salvaging team morale, and building software increments that an actual biological human can use. Designed for anyone currently pinned down in the corporate wasteland of branded Patagonia quarter-zips, performative Jira choreography, and people who treat having “a hard stop” as a substitute for a personality.
The foundational briefing: why Scrum metastasised across the globe, what a Scrum Master and Product Owner are genuinely supposed to do when they aren’t generating slides, and how to tell the difference between useful tooling and expensive agile theatre. Written before the full apocalypse branding was strictly necessary. Still the safest text to hand a junior developer who has just wandered into their first sprint planning meeting and would prefer to emerge with their sanity intact.
Practical Scrum (2016)
The original field notes before the rot set in.
The foundational briefing: why Scrum metastasised across the globe, what a Scrum Master and Product Owner are genuinely supposed to do when they aren’t generating slides, and how to tell the difference between useful tooling and expensive agile theatre. Written before the full apocalypse branding was strictly necessary. Still the safest text to hand a junior developer who has just wandered into their first sprint planning meeting and would prefer to emerge with their sanity intact.
An Ordered Backlog
Part of the Agile Apocalypse field archive.
If you were redirected here from the legacy dispatches or an archived sprint review, this is the remaining cache. Tactical reads on triage, prioritisation, and keeping rogue roadmaps from driving the entire delivery unit straight off a digital cliff.
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