Why Most Teams Underperform
When we say a team is underperforming, it can evoke visions of a bad manager berating a team to try to force them to work… Read More
Key Ideas of the Week
Don’t Put That In Your Backlog
The single biggest mistake that teams make with their backlogs and individuals make with their todo lists happens to be the most natural thing to… Read More
Facilitation Case-Study: Remembering the Future Together
Recently, we were asked to facilitate a working session for a leadership team. They were at the beginning of a major organizational change that they… Read More
Maximizing the Flow of Value
In a recent Humanizing Work Show episode, we talked about the benefits of making things more visible so you, your colleagues, and… Read More
Customers Don’t Want Your Product, They Want This…
A hard truth of product development is that people don’t want our products. They don’t want our services. They don’t want the features we’re so… Read More
Why 40-hour work weeks aren’t a good target
One of the principles in the first edition of *Extreme Programming Explained* was “40-hour work week.” Wisely, the early XP practitioners recognized that overtime burns… Read More
5 Business Insights from the World of Music
Hi all, it’s Peter here, and I’ve had a busy week musically, playing with multiple groups in different styles in a wide range of venues. Read More
Using Vision as a Filter
In a recent Humanizing Work Show episode, How to Craft A Vision Statement That’s Not Just Corporate Speak, we talked about the… Read More
Teams Need a Shared Purpose
A team is a relatively small, clearly defined group of people who work together towards a shared purpose. In practice, many groups that people call… Read More
Lightweight Async Feedback
In March, we published a Humanizing Work Show episode about the approach we’ve developed for getting feedback on work-in-progress. It’s a structure… Read More