Agile Career Forge
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The most overlooked backlog is the one within you.
Bending Back Upon Me is a personal retrospective for Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and Agile leaders ready to apply inspect-and-adapt to themselves.
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This book is for the practitioner inside the framework.
You've earned the certifications. You facilitate ceremonies, manage backlogs, and run retrospectives for teams that depend on you. But somewhere in the rhythm of helping others improve, the person doing the work has gone unexamined.
You're a Scrum Master who can name every team smell — but rarely your own.
You've collected the certifications and outgrown what they taught you.
You facilitate everyone else's growth while neglecting your own retrospective.
You believe in inspect-and-adapt at the team level — and you're ready to apply it to yourself.
What you'll learn to do differently.
Three shifts the book builds in you — the inner moves that frameworks don't teach.
SHIFT ONE
From activity to influence.
Stop measuring your week by how many ceremonies you ran. Start measuring it by what shifted because you were in the room.
Author headshot — coming soon
The most overlooked backlog is the one within you.
Bending Back Upon Me is a personal retrospective for Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and Agile leaders ready to apply inspect-and-adapt to themselves.
Join the early reader list. No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.
This book is for the practitioner inside the framework.
You've earned the certifications. You facilitate ceremonies, manage backlogs, and run retrospectives for teams that depend on you. But somewhere in the rhythm of helping others improve, the person doing the work has gone unexamined.
You're a Scrum Master who can name every team smell — but rarely your own.
You've collected the certifications and outgrown what they taught you.
You facilitate everyone else's growth while neglecting your own retrospective.
You believe in inspect-and-adapt at the team level — and you're ready to apply it to yourself.
What you'll learn to do differently.
Three shifts the book builds in you — the inner moves that frameworks don't teach.
SHIFT ONE
From activity to influence.
Stop measuring your week by how many ceremonies you ran. Start measuring it by what shifted because you were in the room.
SHIFT TWO
From reaction to intention.
The retrospective you've been running for everyone else — turn it inward. Examine your defaults before they run your career for you.
SHIFT THREE
From career motion to career clarity.
Busy is not the same as growing. This book gives you the discipline to tell the difference — and the practice to choose the second one.