I’m honored to be the closing keynote speaker at Scrum Gathering Lisbon 2025 — sharing the stage with incredible names like Prof. Dave Snowden.
Honored to Be Keynote Speaker at Scrum Gathering Lisbon 2025
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Strategy and Planning
Lean Inception: From Features to User Stories
Learn how to go from features to user stories using Lean Inception and the PBB Canvas. This article offers clear definitions, writing tips, and real-world examples to help your team align and deliver value.
Team OKR: How to achieve aligned, clear, challenging, inspiring and deadline-oriented objectives (ACCID)
This article emphasizes the significance of well-defined objectives for an organization’s success, particularly within the framework of Team OKR. For an objective to be effective, it must align with the organization’s mission and values, be clear, challenging (yet achievable), inspiring, and deadline-oriented. The author introduces the acronym ACCID to encapsulate these essential criteria. Aiming to motivate teams and organizations towards substantial goals, the article stresses the importance of measuring progress and adhering to these ACCID principles within the OKR framework.
Lean Inception: Learn How to Align People and Build the Right Product
Lean Inception is a crucial agile methodology for aligning teams on effective product creation. Introduced by Paulo Caroli, it combines Design Thinking and Lean StartUp techniques to define strategies and Minimum Viable Product (MVP) scope. It is valuable for large projects, startups, and business innovations. Not suitable for discovery activities, prototyping decisions, or cross-team alignment. Active participants, stakeholders, and skilled facilitators are essential for the success of this collaborative process. Lean Inception is fundamental for guiding teams toward meaningful and efficient product outcomes.
Why did the Lean Inception creator get involved with Data Mesh?
I am Paulo Caroli, the creator of Lean Inception, a collaborative workshop for aligning people and building the right product. In the past years, I got involved in many Data Mesh engagements. I was never a Data Engineer nor a Data Scientist. In fact, I was a senior...
MVP philosophy and the Justified True Belief
Lately I have been listening and reading about philosophy and I came across a theory that got me thinking about hypothesis driven development, Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and validation. It is accredited to Plato from around 369 BC with the name of Justified True...
Lean Inception with a defined budget and deadline
QUESTION: If the company already defines a budget and expected delivery date in advance for the creation of the product, should this information be shared by the facilitator with the team going through the Lean Inception or would it disrupt the activities – putting a...
Team Topology and MVP
I have been running Lean Inception workshops – a workshop to align a group of people about the MVP -- for many organisations contexts. Therefore, I have seen many different teams and many different MVPs. The other day I was helping a Platform team plan a Lean...