Agile
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Individual Contributor vs. Team Member
Many people draw distinctions between people who do management-kind of work and people who do “individual contributor” kind of work. …
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Sprint Planning Tips for Product Owners
As its name suggests, the sprint planning meeting sets up the sprint and establishes what can be done. While it’s…
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Improving Agile Team Performance
A phenomenon that often pops up in software development teams, and one that seems to be a major cause of…
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Planning: Risk Management to Manage Uncertainty
Many organizations plan to create certainty, guarantees of some variety. What if we thought about agile planning as a way…
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Objectives & Accountability vs Responsibility & Autonomy, Part 2
I explained about objectives and the differences between MBOs and OKRs in Part 1. I’m tackling the issues of “accountability”…
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When OKRs Become MBOs and Accountability, Part 1
I have personal and professional goals. Sometimes, I state them as objectives: complete this book, learn that thing. Those are personal…
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Organizational structure in the Digital and Agile age
Someone ask the other day: how should a organization be designed? There are two potential answers, which actually aren’t as…
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Visualize Work to Reduce Agile Meetings
Many new-to-agile teams use some form of iteration-based agile approach. Often, in the form of Scrum. Back in Time You Spend…
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Why Managers Believe Multitasking Works: Long Decision Wait Times
When I teach any sort of product/project/portfolio management, I ask, “Who believes multitasking works?” Always, at least several managers raise…
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