How to Keep Meetings On Track
When you’re running a meeting, your role as the facilitator is akin to a maps app on your phone. You have a clear destination (the… Read More
Cross-Functional Teams & Real-World Challenges
In this episode, Richard and Peter explore what cross-functional teams are, why they're crucial to Agile methods like Scrum, and how to navigate some common challenges in creating and maintaining these teams. Read More
Sustaining Team Momentum Beyond January
If you’re a regular in a gym, you know the pattern. The first week of January, there’s an influx of new members. Some are eager… Read More
Feature Hostage Negotiation
Have you or your team ever felt like prioritizing your work is like a hostage negotiation with your stakeholders…and you don’t have the leverage to get a good outcome? In this episode, Richard chats with Dean Peters about what he calls “feature hostage negotiation.” They dig into where it comes from, what problems it causes, and how to respond if you’re a product manager in that situation. Read More
How to Set the Right Goals for 2024
It’s January, and people are setting goals and New Year’s resolutions. But how do you pick the right ones? It can be overwhelming, and you can end up picking no goal at all or just picking ones that are easy to define. In this episode, Richard and Peter share a simple process using the Theory of Constraints to find just the right personal and work goals for 2024. Read More
Insights from 2023’s Most Popular Content
We’ve produced a lot of content over the years. And in 2023, we made a concerted effort to release more and more useful content. We… Read More
Our Favorite End-of-Year Retro Format
A couple weeks ago, we recommended using the end of the year and start of the next as a time to zoom out and do… Read More
When Your Team Inspects But Doesn’t Adapt
In this episode, Richard and Peter give actionable advice for how to get unstuck when your team’s retrospectives produce lots of good ideas for change but never seem to lead to actual changes getting implemented. They share an agenda for a special retrospective you can do to address that exact challenge. Read More
You Only Need to Change One Thing
One of our favorite thinking tools is Eli Goldratt’s Theory of Constraints. In fact, it’s become such an essential part of our work that we… Read More
Culture Signals for Everyone
Richard and Peter introduced the concept of culture signals in episode 71. But because of the examples in that episode, many people got the misconception that culture signals were only for CEOs. Not at all! In this episode they share 7 inspirational examples of mid-level managers, team leads, and individual contributors creating effective culture signals, and they review how you can do the same in your environment. Read More
