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Our Favorite Prioritization Question - Whether you’re trying to plan your day or trying to get stakeholders to prioritize features, the temptation to say, “It’s all important,” is strong. Prioritization triggers loss aversion. When we’re looking at a list of work that might happen, it somehow feels like all of it is possible. To decide what’s most important is also, […]
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- When Busy Becomes a Buzzword: The Art of Value-Driven Work
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- Confirmation Bias: The Silent Product Killer
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- New Manager Mistakes
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- The Most Misunderstood Motivation Factor
- Drifting into Consensus
- The Problem with Quick Wins
- Designing Org Change Experiments
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- When a Team Isn’t Performing
- Dealing with Interruptions on a Scrum Team
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- How do you define value?
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- Feature Mining — Where do you start?
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