Finish Strong, Start Stronger: Practical Tips for Year-End Success
The end of one year and start of another can be a difficult time for organizations and for the people in them in two, almost… Read More
Finding the Right Style For Your Leadership Team: Lessons from Take6 and Greg Popovich
Most leadership teams adopt their style by accident and end up with wasteful meetings and unnecessarily noise and conflict. In this episode, Peter and Richard share an approach for figuring out the right kind of leadership team style for you based on your context. They describe the tools that fit each style and when your team might shift from one to another, drawing lessons from great music groups and sports teams. Read More
Overcoming Burnout through Daily Purpose and Vision
Are you looking at your task list today and dreading it a bit? In this replay from the October 2023 Humanizing Work Meetup session, Richard and Peter share three recent situations when they were feeling a little burned out, and what they did to fix it. They walk through a process to think and communicate about Purpose and Vision at the micro level. That process took them less than five minutes in their examples, and energized them to make their work meaningful that day. Learn how you can do the same thing to tackle the day with energy, even when the tasks aren't something you're looking forward to. Read More
How Coaches Benefit from PO Skills
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When Busy Becomes a Buzzword: The Art of Value-Driven Work
In the bustling world of product development, it’s easy to fall into the trap of “busy.” Teams often find themselves knee-deep in a backlog that’s… Read More
The High Cost of Ineffective Backlog Refinement
There’s a popular myth that backlog refinement is just administrative work around a backlog—managing JIRA tickets and arguing about tasks and estimates. Humanizing Work’s Co-Founder,… Read More
The Business Case for Better Product Backlog Refinement
In this episode, Richard and Peter talk about the business case for getting better at product backlog refinement. What’s the financial and human cost of bad backlogs? Way more than most people realize. Here’s why it matters and what to do about it. Read More
Groups of Customers Lie to You
Whether a formal research session or an informal gathering of a group of customers or stakeholders, focus groups are one of the most popular ways… Read More
Can Agile Even Work With This Business Model?
In this episode, Richard and Peter answer a listener question about whether an Agile approach can work with a customer-funded project model or whether you have to change your funding approach to work in an Agile way. They address the implications of Agile for things like funding, why project funding works for some orgs, and how to change things like funding in an Agile way. Read More
But We Must!
It’s been a trope in action movies forever… Leader: How long is it going to take to solve this problem? Technical Expert: At… Read More