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
Key Ideas of the Week
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
Cultivating Good Luck
“We just got lucky.” “That was bad luck.” Luck feels like a thing that just happens to us, whether good or bad. But what… Read More
10 Ways to Influence Beyond Your Team
In our ScrumMaster and Coach Community of Practice session on Friday, we talked about techniques to help influence beyond the team level. We started by… Read More
Borrow to Unlock a Breakthrough
Borrow to Unlock a Breakthrough In his book Range, David Epstein describes a classic cognitive psychology experiment (p. 104ff). Participants in the experiment are… Read More
The Power of Layering Models
The Power of Layering Models We love a good mental model, especially a shared mental model. Good models help you make sense of some aspect… Read More
Create Clarity by Defining Success
Definition of Success One surefire way to increase your odds of success is to articulate what success actually looks like. In the Humanizing Work… Read More