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This Week
Finish Strong, Start Stronger: Practical Tips for Year-End Success - The end of one year and start of another can be a difficult time for organizations and for the people in them in two, almost opposite, ways. On the one hand, you can get stuck trying to meet commitments that didn’t take into account holidays and vacation at year-end, which can be stressful and frustrating. […]
The Archives
- Finish Strong, Start Stronger: Practical Tips for Year-End Success
- When Busy Becomes a Buzzword: The Art of Value-Driven Work
- The High Cost of Ineffective Backlog Refinement
- Groups of Customers Lie to You
- But We Must!
- Confirmation Bias: The Silent Product Killer
- Keep Showing Up
- Purpose, Mission, Vision, Strategy: What Jobs Do They Do?
- Business as Usual Product Ownership (and why it doesn’t work any more)
- New Manager Mistakes
- Can’t Fix It? Make It More Visible
- Framing a Meeting Right
- Do It Once Before You Scale It
- Does it need to be a meeting?
- The Most Misunderstood Motivation Factor
- Drifting into Consensus
- The Problem with Quick Wins
- Designing Org Change Experiments
- How to Learn Faster
- When a Team Isn’t Performing
- Dealing with Interruptions on a Scrum Team
- How to Get the Quiet Ones to Engage
- How do you define value?
- Collaborate vs. Coordinate
- Archetypes of Product Ownership Gone Wrong
- Why Doing Scrum Well Is Not Really About Doing Scrum Well
- When You Can’t Do It By The Book
- Habits and Strategies
- Culture Signals
- Cultivating Good Luck
- 10 Ways to Influence Beyond Your Team
- Borrow to Unlock a Breakthrough
- The Power of Layering Models
- Create Clarity by Defining Success
- Feature Mining — Where do you start?
- Using Questions Well
- Own-Influence-Respond
- Prioritization Heuristics
- What parts of Scrum are essential?