Survival Metrics: Helping Teams Pivot to Change Instead of Planning to Failure
How do you know if your team is focused on the right thing? Product teams often know that a project needs to change direction, but they don’t have a way […]
Simple and Effective Solutions to Agile Finance
Agile impacts and challenges today’s finance organization requiring innovative new approaches for success. Unfortunately, financial guidance related to agile is sparse and often lacks practical guidance for adoption. The Agile […]
Questions to Ask in Your Next Job Interview
You are passionate about software development, or product management, or leadership, or user experience, or documentation, or organization, or something else. Regardless of your role, you care about being agile. […]
Project to Product: Learn from Our Mistakes
Our modern development landscape demands organizations shift from a project-centric view of development to a product-centric view. Making that transition may seem simple on the surface, but in practice even […]
Paved with Good Intentions
The problems remain the same. Legacy systems. Disengaged employees. Defects all around. Long delays getting software released. Being left behind by the competition. But why does everyone run into the […]
Organizational Learning: Experiment with Better Ways to Experiment
You’ve learned a lot at the conference, but how can you make that learning operational in your organization? How can you spread your newly gained knowledge – adapted to your […]
Org Design Is Game Design: Make Yours a Cooperative
Forget points, leaderboards, competition. There are deeper principles in game design that apply to our teams and organizations — constructively. Game designers create special modes of agency for players: they […]
Modeling Better Decisions
In this skit-based presentation, follow “Skylar” through a day in their life as they face one problem after another. After they navigates each issue, we’ll pause to reflect. How could […]
Looking Ahead Using Wardley Mapping
In a company, department, or team, we will often talk about “strategy”. This term is rarely well defined, or at least not defined in a way that is useful. It […]
KonMari Your Backlog: Tidying Up Those PBIs
In many ways Antarctica is completely unique – a place unlike any other I’d traveled to before! And yet, during my time there, my mind kept drifting back to how […]
Improving Your Diagramming
From ancient times, humans have used diagrams to represent and communicate, whether through cave drawings, sketches or schematics. In this age where remote international knowledge-working is more commonplace, developing our […]
Evolving Agile: The Game We Design Together
What is this thing called Agile? Is it old hat and common sense? Or some newfangled nonsense? How is it different from Business Agility? Lean? DevOps? How are they connected? […]
