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.

A PBI isn’t a mini-contract or task list. It’s a placeholder for a conversation about a slice of outcome—small enough to learn from and reorder as evidence changes. If your backlog feels like a requirements warehouse, ask what each item is helping you learn. #Scrum Learn with us.

DEEP THOUGHT: Vibe coding did not kill Product Management. It just lets you discover much faster whether you had a product idea—or merely a prompt. Shipping faster does not make the customer problem appear.

LAST CHANCE: Certified Scrum Product Owner® starts tomorrow, October 17. Product ownership isn't about keeping a backlog full. It's about making better decisions about what creates value—and what not to build. Join us live October 17–18 for hands-on CSPO training. Register today: fearlessagility.com/workshop…

The annual reminder that professionalism comes in many forms. Happy holidays from Fearless Agility. 🔥

Refinement is not a meeting where the Product Owner reads tickets aloud. It is ongoing work to make the next important PBIs understood enough to solve. If the meeting creates detail but not shared understanding, stop adding detail.

Product Owners: your job isn't keeping developers busy. It's deciding what creates value—and what doesn't deserve to be built. Join Fearless Agility's next live CSPO workshop, November 3. No slide-deck marathon. Real decisions, real practice. fearlessagility.com/workshop…

Make Daily Scrum better: start with the Sprint Goal, not the people. Ask: What changed? Are we still on track? What do we change in today’s plan? Then stop. No roll call. No reporting to the Scrum Master.

Anti-pattern: a backlog with 47 “top priorities.” If everything is urgent, nothing is ordered. A Product Goal plus one explicit order forces the conversation people are avoiding: what matters most now, and what can wait?

Your backlog isn't your product strategy. If you're spending more time grooming tickets than deciding what matters to customers, it's time to rethink Product Ownership. In Fearless Agility's live CSPO workshop, we practice product thinking: understanding customers, shaping a Product Goal, and making real value tradeoffs. No slide marathon. Explore upcoming workshops: fearlessagility.com/cspo-cer… #ProductOwnership #CSPO #Scrum

Neuroinclusive teams create more than one way to think out loud. Before a hard decision, let people write first and discuss second. You reduce interruption pressure, preserve quieter ideas, and improve the quality of the conversation.

Definition of Done is not a checklist attached to each ticket. It is the product-level quality bar for the Increment. Make it visible, make it real, and stop renegotiating quality every time a deadline gets uncomfortable.

Last call for this weekend’s CSM. Starts Saturday, Oct. 10 at 10 AM Eastern. Two live days. No prerecorded certification mill—practice Scrum, challenge the mechanics, and learn why the framework works. $399. fearlessagility.com/csm