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Introducing Agile Whiskey Bot: Your No-Fluff Guide to Leadership & Agility
If you’ve ever sat in a retrospective that felt more like theater than progress—or watched a “Scrum” team operate more like a slow-moving waterfall—you…
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Mark Granger
Agile Strategy Playbook
Agile without strategy is motion without momentum.
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Mark Granger
A Scrum Master Isn’t a Note-Taker—They’re a Team-Level Game Changer
If your Scrum Master only books meetings, you hired a calendar, not a coach.
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Mark Granger
Agile Doesn’t Kill Documentation—It Kills Pointless Documentation
No one’s saying don’t write things down. We’re saying stop writing what no one reads.
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Mark Granger

May 2025

Scrum Is a Framework—Agile Is a Set of Guiding Principles
Equating Scrum with Agile leads to rigid implementations and missed opportunities for adaptability.
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Mark Granger
Velocity ≠ Productivity – Stop Weaponizing the Metric
Treating velocity like a scoreboard is how teams burn out and fake progress.
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Mark Granger
Agile Doesn’t Mean “No Plan” – It Means “No BS Plans”
Stop using “we’re Agile” as an excuse for flying blind.
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Mark Granger
When Psychological Safety Goes Too Far
We talk a lot about psychological safety—and for good reason.
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Mark Granger
Why Your Sprint Goal Feels Pointless (and How to Fix It)
Sprint goals are supposed to give your team focus.
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Mark Granger
AI in Scrum: Turbocharge Delivery Without Killing Trust
Generative AI is creeping into every corner of tech—including Scrum.
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Mark Granger
Backlog Refinement Is Not a Planning Meeting — It’s a Focus Filter
If your backlog refinement feels like a messy rehash of planning meetings, you're not alone.
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Mark Granger
Scrum Masters, It’s Time to Care About DevOps
Let’s be honest — if you think DevOps is “not your thing,” you’re probably leaving a ton of value on the table.
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Mark Granger
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