Many teams depend on others to get work done, slowing down feedback, learning, and flow. This episode shares three ways to reduce the pain of cross-team dependencies—even if you can’t change the org structure. Read More
Talking with a software development lead recently, I heard, “Probably 50% of our user stories have some sort of issue that shows up in UAT… Read More
A lot of the agile practices have become standard (at least in name). Organizing work in iterations is commonplace. Cross-functional teams are more common than… Read More
A Product Backlog should provide focus and transparency, but most are overcrowded collections of items, where stakeholder's dreams go to die. Learn how to release the weight of old commitments, sort work into Active / Archive / Someday-Maybe, and when to declare Backlog Bankruptcy so every item earns its place. Read More
We’re always afraid to go to the complex because it’s the unknown. CAPED gives us the guardrails and parameters on how to think about the… Read More
Five practical, research-backed ways to say no without being a jerk. Use purpose and goals as filters, protect flow, clarify decision rights, and practice stewardship language that keeps trust high while guarding capacity. Read More
I was talking with a Head of Security who was drowning. Overwhelmed, reactive, constantly pulled in every direction. He’d become a bottleneck for his entire… Read More
To celebrate 200 episodes of The Humanizing Work Show, we’re revisiting one of our most practical and popular episodes: two facilitation moves that turn retrospectives from repetitive to transformative. Learn how ORID and a simple experiment mindset can reignite learning and improvement in every sprint. Read More
With their Five Whys, Toyota made asking “why?” the go-to root cause analysis technique. Author Simon Sinek got famous for telling leaders to “Start… Read More
What's the big difference between Scrum and Kanban? When is each the best fit for a team's work? We share our experience on how to choose among them, along with four different ways to combine them effectively. Read More
