What to do Before an Accountability Conversation
You thought expectations were clear, but it seems they’ve dropped the ball. Now what? You know you should say something. After all, Avoidance of Accountability… Read More
Visualizing Technical Debt
Ward Cunningham, inventor of the wiki and one of the creators of eXtreme Programming, first described technical debt in 1992 this way: Shipping first… Read More
How to Get the Quiet Ones to Engage
“How can I get the quiet people in my meetings to speak up? Especially since we’ve gone remote, it feels like maybe a third of… Read More
How do you define value?
We launched a new Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner (A-CSPO) cohort last week. Week 1 of our program focuses on modeling and communicating about… Read More
Collaborate vs. Coordinate
“Our team needs to collaborate more.” “We need to have tight coordination on this effort.” How are these two different? While collaboration and coordination are… Read More
Archetypes of Product Ownership Gone Wrong
When the Product Owner role is going well, it’s super high-leverage. A good PO sets up a whole team to do more meaningful, valuable work. Read More
Why Doing Scrum Well Is Not Really About Doing Scrum Well
One sense of “doing Scrum well” is following the process, following the rules. Do you have the 3 Scrum roles clearly defined? Do you do… Read More
When You Can’t Do It By The Book
Last week, we were facilitating a large Agile for Teams workshop to launch several teams in a marketing organization. Some participants were skeptical, especially early… Read More
Habits and Strategies
As one teacher of philosophy summarized Aristotle: “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act, but a habit.” The best Agile teams… Read More
Culture Signals
Why does Zappos celebrate wildly inefficient customer service calls? Why did FAVI brick up the window that allowed managers to see what was happening on… Read More