What to do Before an Accountability Conversation
You thought expectations were clear, but it seems they’ve dropped the ball. Now what? You know you should say something. After all, Avoidance of Accountability… Read More
Senior Leadership Challenges in Agile Orgs
In this episode, Peter and Richard sit down with Melissa Boggs to talk about the unique challenges senior leaders face in Agile orgs and how that led us to create our 2019 senior leader retreat. Melissa talks about her experience as a participant at the 2019 event, and the trio shares their vision for the 2023 retreat, now that Melissa has joined Richard and Peter as a co-facilitator. Read More
Visualizing Technical Debt
Ward Cunningham, inventor of the wiki and one of the creators of eXtreme Programming, first described technical debt in 1992 this way: Shipping first… Read More
The one where Peter apologizes to the CEO
In this episode, Peter tell the story of a time where his own reactive tendencies limited his effectiveness—in a big way—in an interaction with his CEO. Richard interviews Peter about what he learned from the experience, how he’d handle it now, and what advice he has for other leaders in challenging situations. Read More
How to Get the Quiet Ones to Engage
“How can I get the quiet people in my meetings to speak up? Especially since we’ve gone remote, it feels like maybe a third of… Read More
Own-Influence-Respond
In this episode, Richard and Peter share their favorite tool for figuring out what to do in a frustrating situation where you don’t have the power to just fix it, including a few real examples. Read More
They’re All Customers
In this episode, Richard and Peter look at how customer research tools are useful in all kinds of contexts beyond product development. Got a relationship with a stakeholder at work that you’d like to improve? Learn how you can use customer research tools to better understand that stakeholder’s needs and how you and your team can help solve them. Read More
How do you define value?
We launched a new Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner (A-CSPO) cohort last week. Week 1 of our program focuses on modeling and communicating about… Read More
Collaborate vs. Coordinate
“Our team needs to collaborate more.” “We need to have tight coordination on this effort.” How are these two different? While collaboration and coordination are… Read More
The 15 minutes that reveal the health of your team
How do you assess the health of a team? You could conduct surveys and interviews of team members and stakeholders. You could look at the results the team produces. You could watch them work for a week or two. Or, as Peter & Richard explain in this Humanizing Work Show episode, you could just observe a team’s Daily Scrum (aka Daily Standup) and learn 80% of what you need to know about health of a team. Read More
