Fearless Agility, LLC

Jimi Fosdick: President & Chief Coddiwompler at Fearless Agility LLC, Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), and TEDx Speaker.

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A polished AI backlog can hide untested assumptions. Pick one PBI: what did we observe, what are we guessing, and what could change the investment decision? I treat it as a value bet.

Joanna Płaskonka on this:
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What is the Sprint for? What does Done mean? What needs to change? Practise those Scrum conversations with Jimi Fearless in our live online CSM, November 18–20. Register:
https://t.co/Q4GyOLq9i3

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Exactly 100 years ago today (don't Google it), I was at a Matchbox 20 concert. I waited through the whole concert and was disappointed when they didn't play the first song I ever downloaded from LimeWire (ask Gemini, kids).

My baby sister pointed out that "Breakfast at Tiffany's" was actually by Deep Blue Something.

I have now come full circle and deleted that incredibly shitty copy of the song, which I assume someone recorded on a cassette off the radio before uploading it on their 56k modem (ibid).

Gen X lived in very dark times.

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Apparently information can’t escape through serif lettering. That’s one answer in our new Facilitation Trivia. Choose 1–150 questions, play at your pace, and tell me what needs fixing. It’s free:
https://t.co/tOo5royLpW
#Facilitation

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Before funding another feature, ask who it helps, what should change, and what would prove you wrong. We practise those Product Ownership decisions in Fearless CSPO, November 23 and 24, live online.
https://t.co/u2r7FdQTYs

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Last chance: Fearless Certified Agile Facilitator starts tomorrow, Monday, November 9.

If your meetings need clearer purpose, broader participation, and decisions people can act on, come practise with us. You’ll design and facilitate sessions, receive feedback, and adapt your approach with Jimi Fearless.

November 9, 10 & 12. Noon Eastern / 11 a.m. Central. Veterans Day off. Live online. $399.

Register today: https://t.co/lyDErMaCMS

#CAF #AgileFacilitation #Agile

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Fine. You still have to use Jira.

Fearless Scrum Board is now on Atlassian Marketplace. Help fund further testing, team evaluation and the Scrum collaboration field kit. Back or share our Kickstarter:
https://t.co/cQECsYtnKU

#Scrum #Jira

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Planning Poker... Strange Game. The only way to win is not to play.

J.I.M.I.S has opinions. Compare the work, talk about effort, complexity and uncertainty, and split the PBI when it needs it. DEVCON is a conversation starter, not a score for people.

A small Veterans Day thank-you: veterans and their families can message me about discounts on Fearless workshops.

https://t.co/xa94x7iFgh

#Scrum #FearlessAgility #VeteransDay

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It's official. Fearless Scrum Board for Jira is approved and published on the Atlassian Marketplace. Jira teams can now find and try our Scrum workspace, with Product Goal, Sprint Goal, backlogs and Definition of Done visible together. https://t.co/1Cq3xvWE4A

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Planning Poker... Strange Game. The only way to win is not to play.

J.I.M.I.S has opinions. Compare the work, talk about effort, complexity and uncertainty, and split the PBI when it needs it. DEVCON is a conversation starter, not a score for people.

A small Veterans Day thank-you: veterans and their families can message me about discounts on Fearless workshops.

https://t.co/xa94x7iFgh

#Scrum #FearlessAgility #VeteransDay

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A Definition of Done is useful when the whole team can see it and use it during the Sprint—not just find it in a document later.

We’re building Fearless Scrum Board for Jira around practical Scrum collaboration: goals, backlogs, Sprint planning, shared work, and Definition of Done.

What would make that workflow more useful for your team? Reply SCRUM if you want a preview of the private pilot.

#Scrum #Jira #Agile

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I built a Jira app that refuses to calculate velocity.

Scrum doesn’t ask you to predict the future from yesterday’s points. Sprint Goal, capacity, Increment and DoD matter.

So we built the board around them.

Kickstarter: https://t.co/C8L8h3cBuz

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CSPO starts TODAY, Nov 3, at noon ET / 11 CT. Three days live online with Jimi Fearless. Learn product decisions, not backlog administration. Scrum Alliance certification. $399. Register: https://t.co/YnvPVIcEXk #CSPO

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A meeting can fill an hour without moving a decision forward.

In Fearless Certified Agile Facilitator, you’ll practise designing collaborative sessions, making space for different perspectives, and helping a group reach useful decisions. Live online with Jimi Fearless.

November 9, 10 & 12, starting at noon Eastern / 11 a.m. Central. Veterans Day off. $399.

Bring a facilitation challenge from your own work. Register: https://t.co/lyDErMaCMS

#AgileFacilitation #CAF #Agile

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Today’s the day. Fearless Scrum Board is live on Kickstarter.

I built this to give teams using Jira a clear place to see their goal, backlog, sprint plan, and Definition of Done together. It’s a working Scrum workspace designed to make the team’s plan visible and keep the conversation focused on the work.

Have a look, back the project if it’s useful, and share it with someone who works in Jira or Scrum: https://t.co/5qv32e1mkd

#Jira #Scrum #Kickstarter

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We’re targeting a Kickstarter launch for Fearless Scrum Board for Jira at 2 PM Central today, pending Atlassian Marketplace approvals.

I spent years complaining about Jira. Then somebody said: “That’s nice. We still have to use it.” Fair. So we built the thing we wanted to exist.

If approvals are still in progress, follow the Kickstarter pre-launch page and tap “Notify me on launch”: https://t.co/5qv32e1mkd

#Scrum #Jira

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Last chance to join this week’s Fearless CSPO. We start tomorrow, Tuesday, November 3.

Product ownership means making choices about value, customers, stakeholders, and what deserves the team’s attention. You’ll practise those decisions in a live workshop with Jimi Fearless, working with real products and real feedback.

November 3, 4 & 5. Noon Eastern / 11 a.m. Central. Live online. $399.

Choose your workshop and register today: https://t.co/1RVDCX6apQ

#CSPO #ProductOwnership #Scrum

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Scrum depends on a team seeing the same goal, the same work, and what “Done” means. When those details are scattered, collaboration gets harder.

That’s the problem we’re exploring with Fearless Scrum Board for Jira. What part of your Scrum workflow is hardest to keep visible in Jira?

Follow the Kickstarter pre-launch page and tap “Notify me on launch”: https://t.co/5qv32e1mkd

#Scrum #Jira #ProductOwnership

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The person with the loudest voice shouldn’t be the only person shaping the decision.

Good facilitation gives people a way to think, contribute, disagree, and move forward together. That takes practice. In Fearless Certified Agile Facilitator, you’ll design and facilitate collaborative sessions, receive feedback, and try again.

Join Jimi Fearless live online November 9, 10 & 12. Noon Eastern / 11 a.m. Central, with Veterans Day off. $399.

Make your next meeting worth people’s time: https://t.co/lyDErMaCMS

#CAF #AgileFacilitation #Leadership

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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.

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#Halloween #Samhain #GenX #80s #FearlessAgility