In this episode, Richard answers the question: “Our team is trying to use Scrum, but we get a lot of interruptions, a lot of work that pops up mid-sprint. How do we handle that kind of thing well?” He explains how to borrow a couple of concepts from Kanban to accommodate emergent work on a Scrum team in a healthy way. Read More
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
Just saying “you’re empowered” doesn’t make it happen. In this episode, Peter and Richard offer a more nuanced way to think about empowerment and a structured path to increase the level of empowerment for your employees and teams Read More
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
In this episode, Richard and Peter share an agenda you can use for a Sprint Review meeting—or for any meeting where you want to share and get feedback on complex, meaningful work-in-progress. Too many Sprint Reviews are a demo with no useful feedback or a deep dive into the weeds on problem-solving. The best review meetings combine a deliberate demo with a well-structured feedback session. Learn how you can have this kind of review. Read More
Feature Mining Last week, we held a webinar with Miro on Feature Mining, our technique for finding a good first slice of a big, complex… Read More
Feature Mining is a technique for figuring out where to start on a big, complex idea. Following up on a Feature Mining webinar on February 6, 2023, in this episode, Richard and Peter answer questions from the webinar and from other workshops on the topic of Feature Mining. If you’re not familiar with the Feature Mining technique, don’t worry, there’s a short intro to it before the Q&A. Read More
Using Questions Well In this week’s HW Show episode, we talked about coaching and particularly what makes for a good question when you’re in… Read More
In the previous episode of the show, Peter and Richard mentioned the importance of team coaching to increase your chances of a healthy, successful team. In this episode, they look at the seven skills all great coaches master. Read More
A key idea that came up in both last week’s leadership community of practice and in this week’s HW Show episode was the own-influence-respond model. Read More