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
Key Ideas of the Week
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
Finish the Year With New Product Skills
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
Our First Class of Certified CAPED Consultants
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
Are You Defining Your Contribution Too Narrowly?
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