Fearless Agility, LLC

Happy All Hallows’ Eve / Samhain from the Fearless Lab. 🎃 This year’s costume: Aging Genre Confused Rocker. Slash’s top hat. A Compton cap. A Fender shirt. Apparently my musical influences have formed a committee and nobody has agreed on the Product Goal. The costume is deliberate. The accidental ’80s time capsule around me is not. There are actual items from the 1980s hiding in this photo, and none were put there for the occasion. That’s just what happens when “I might use that again” survives four decades. Have a proper look around the Fearless Lab and put your guesses in the comments. The first FOUR people to correctly identify one of the real ’80s items get a BIG discount code for my next TWO workshops. Get ALL the items AND their years correct, and you get a FREE workshop. Before anyone comments “you”: behave. No need to agree on a genre. Just bring your powers of observation. fearlessagility.com/workshop… #Halloween #Samhain #GenX #80s #FearlessAgility

A perfectly groomed backlog can still produce the wrong product. CSPO isn't about making tickets prettier. It's about understanding people, testing assumptions, making tradeoffs, and deciding what deserves the team's attention. The next Fearless CSPO starts Tuesday, November 3. November 3, 4 & 5, starting at noon Eastern. Live online with Jimi Fearless. $399. Register: fearlessagility.com/workshop… #CSPO #Scrum #ProductManagement

Sublimez vos restes avec un gratin de pâtes du frigo ! Donner un nom français aux restes, ça leur donne tout de suite un certain standing. Chez Fearless Agility, nous préconisons de consacrer 10 % de son temps aux améliorations issues des rétrospectives, au développement des compétences et des connaissances, et à la cohésion d’équipe. Apprendre mérite une place dans l’agenda. Aujourd’hui, mes 10 % se sont passés en cuisine. Des acini di pepe et du poulet grillé déjà cuits. Du cheddar de chèvre. Du beurre de chèvre. Des câpres. Une expérience pour apprendre à réussir une sauce au fromage et transformer le contenu du frigo en un plat digne de sa propre fiche recette. La leçon du jour : une chaleur douce et un peu de patience font toute la différence. Apparemment, crier « auto-organisez-vous ! » à la sauce ne suffit pas. La recette, en mesures métriques, est sur la fiche. Et vous, à quoi avez-vous fait de la place pour apprendre cette semaine ? RÉFLÉCHIR. SE CONCENTRER. S’ENGAGER. #FearlessAgility #10PercentTime #ApprentissageContinu #Expérimentation #CuisineAntiGaspi #PâtesDuFrigo

Sublimez vos restes avec un gratin de pâtes du frigo ! Translation: level up your leftovers. Giving them a French name also helps. At Fearless Agility, we advocate 10% Time: deliberately making room for retrospective improvements, expanding skills and knowledge, and team building. Learning deserves space on the calendar. Today, my 10% Time happened in the kitchen. Already-cooked acini di pepe and grilled chicken. Goat cheddar. Goat butter. Capers. An experiment in making a smooth cheese sauce and turning the contents of the fridge into something worth putting on a recipe card. My learning: gentle heat and patience matter when bringing a cheese sauce together. Apparently, shouting “self-organise” at it is insufficient. The recipe is on the card. What did you make room to learn this week? REFLECT. FOCUS. COMMIT. #FearlessAgility #10PercentTime #ContinuousLearning #Experimentation #LeftoverMakeover #PatesDuFrigo

Moving a Jira ticket to Done is a status change. It isn't evidence that the Increment meets the team's Definition of Done. Keep the shared quality commitment where the team can actually use it. #Scrum #Jira

Have to use Jira? We’re building Fearless Scrum Board to help Scrum teams keep Product Goals, backlogs, Sprint planning, shared work, and Definition of Done together in their Jira workspace. We’re inviting Scrum practitioners to take an early look and help shape the private pilot while we work through the Marketplace path. Follow the Kickstarter pre-launch page and tap “Notify me on launch” to get the launch notice: kickstarter.com/projects/jim… #Scrum #Jira #Agile #ProductDevelopment

Month-end close + GAAP = Jameson Black for breakfast? Yes. Yes it does. (Don’t judge.) Irish coffee… hold the coffee. Workshop Delivery, Lead Designer/App Developer, IT, CEO, CFO… BFD. CSPO workshop Nov 3, if it’s a fit: fearlessagility.com/cspo #startuplife #smallbusiness #GAAP

Read your Sprint Goal out loud. If it sounds like a list of ticket titles, you probably don't have a Sprint Goal. The why should be visible before the what. Can your team explain the Sprint without reading the tickets? Follow the Kickstarter pre-launch page and tap “Notify me on launch”: kickstarter.com/projects/jim… #Scrum #Jira

Product Ownership is not backlog administration. If your day has become writing tickets, accepting stories and keeping developers busy, the role has drifted. Our next live Certified Scrum Product Owner® workshop starts November 3. We work on customer needs, value, tradeoffs, Product Goals, evidence, and deciding what deserves investment. Live online. $399. 24 max. fearlessagility.com/cspo #CSPO #ProductOwnership #Scrum

We’re live today at 12:25 PM ET for a Sprint Review featuring Cloud Trivia Challenge’s Host a Battle feature! See how a Scrum team can launch a timed trivia battle, share the game code, and play together. Join us on YouTube. #Scrum #Agile #SprintReview #CloudTrivia

What customers ask for, what teams build, and what people actually need can drift apart. Scrum works when teams learn from real outcomes and adapt together. Swipe through the gap, the failure patterns, and a more Fearless way to build. #Scrum #Agile #ProductDevelopment

The next Fearless Agility CSPO workshop starts November 3. If you're ready to stop treating Product Ownership like ticket administration, come practice the decisions that matter: customers, value, trade-offs and outcomes. Live, interactive, and decidedly not death by PowerPoint. fearlessagility.com/workshop…

Have to use Jira? Bring your Scrum goals, backlogs and shared task plan together inside it. Fearless Scrum Board for Jira is live on Kickstarter. Watch the working app and help bring it to public release: kickstarter.com/projects/jim… #Scrum #Jira

Fearless After Hours: I had a billion-dollar idea for Diet Mountain Dew. JIMIS had concerns. 🥤 Every visionary needs someone willing to check the science—and locate the fire extinguisher. #FearlessAfterHours #JIMIS #FearlessAgility

The gap between learning and doing has collapsed. Today's CSPO participants helped develop this with Fearless Product Forge, our new AI-assisted product. What is a Product Goal? Watch. AI proposes. Humans inspect. The Product Owner decides. #CSPO #Scrum

I'm not saying I like working with machine intelligence coding agents for pair programming #XP better than human partners... but I'm not NOT saying it. Pair programming. Plausible deniability. 😉 #FearlessAfterHours

Before prioritizing a feature: Whose problem? What gets better? How will we know? Practice better product decisions in today’s live CSPO, 11 a.m. CT. Still time to join us: fearlessagility.com/workshop…

CSPO starts TOMORROW. Build your judgment around value, product decisions and stakeholders with Jimi Fosdick. Live online • Oct 21–23 • Noon ET / 11 AM CT • $399 Register: fearlessagility.com/workshop…

A perfectly groomed backlog can still produce the wrong product. Learn to challenge assumptions, explore customer needs and make evidence-based product decisions in our next live CSPO workshop on November 3. See dates and register: fearlessagility.com/workshop…

FEARLESS AFTER HOURS My father is an Anglican priest. I am an atheist. I shared this imaginary conversation with my mother. I can appreciate the wisdom in religious texts without believing their supernatural claims. And if I turn out to be wrong? I have a few questions. Peter: Name? Me: Jimi. And before we start, I have some questions about your admission criteria. Peter: Naturally. Me: I appreciated a lot of the wisdom. Love your neighbor. Feed people. Don’t let money own you. But I couldn’t honestly say I believed the supernatural claims. Peter: Why not? Me: The evidence didn’t convince me. Pretending otherwise would have been dishonest. Peter: And what did you do with the parts that did convince you? Me: Tried to put them into practice. Sometimes well. Sometimes spectacularly badly. Peter: Tell me about the badly. Me: How much time have you got? Peter: You’re going to hate the answer. Me: Eternity. Right. Look, I could be impatient. I hurt people. Sometimes I was so busy explaining why I was right that I missed what someone needed. Peter: Did you ever recognize that? Me: Eventually. Tried to repair things. Didn’t always manage it. Peter: Neither did I. Me: You denied knowing him three times. Peter: Yes. It makes conducting these interviews a delicate business. Me: So was I wrong about God? Peter: Apparently. Me: Fair enough. New evidence. I’m updating my position. Peter: Come in. Me: One last thing. Is there a reason the streets are paved with gold? Given everything he said about wealth, that feels like a branding problem.