How to Show Up to a Meeting
Just in the last week, we’ve had three conversations with clients lamenting that their colleagues are silent or distracted in meetings where our clients know… Read More
Humble Confidence
During an assumptions brainstorming session with a client, we were looking at risks and potential negative surprises (so they could systematically address them). One key… Read More
Should the Product Owner come from the Business or from IT?
This is one of the most common questions IT organizations ask when they get serious about Product Ownership. Should the Product Owner come from “the… Read More
New Year’s Experiments (instead of resolutions)
It’s easy to look at New Year’s resolutions with a bit of skepticism. If you’re like most of us, you’ve got plenty of failed January… Read More
How to Do Quarterly Planning That Holds Up Past Week Three
The week-three problem Most organizations we work with end their quarterly planning feeling pretty confident. They’ve aligned backlogs, mapped dependencies, refined and approved OKRs at… Read More
AI for better BDD
We finally had to turn off Copilot because the suggestions were so bad. AI results are only as good as the training data and the… Read More
Our Favorite “Modifications” to Scrum
The Scrum Guide, the official definition of Scrum, has changed over the years. But various practices have become “standard Scrum” even if they’re no longer… Read More
The Powerful Gratitude Practice Most People Have Never Heard of
It’s Thanksgiving tomorrow here in the US, and you’ve probably seen a lot of articles about the benefits of gratitude. Studies have shown over and… Read More
Build Capability as Part of Your Work
As the end of the year draws close, it’s tempting to delay professional development until after the holidays or when “things slow down.” But the… Read More
Rework Isn’t Inevitable
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