Borrow to Unlock a Breakthrough
Borrow to Unlock a Breakthrough In his book Range, David Epstein describes a classic cognitive psychology experiment (p. 104ff). Participants in the experiment are… Read More
Key Ideas of the Week
The Power of Layering Models
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
Create Clarity by Defining Success
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
Feature Mining — Where do you start?
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
Using Questions Well
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
Own-Influence-Respond
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
Prioritization Heuristics
When we survey Product Owners on the techniques they (actually, not officially) use to prioritize backlogs, we consistently get three answers: HiPPO (Highest Paid Person’s… Read More
What parts of Scrum are essential?
What parts of Scrum are essential? We’ve been on lots of teams where we started with all of the core elements of Scrum, then iteratively… Read More