One of the most powerful agile tactics is timeboxing. With remote teams it's hard to coordinate time keeping. These 10 fun web-based timers can help with that.
Volkswagen’s electric car ambitions: a Sense & Respond case study
Volkswagen's electric vehicle ambitions reveal how their manufacturing history gets in the way of their technological success.
3 ways visualization drives collaboration, agility and inclusion
Visualizing a system is the fastest way to build shared understanding. Here's why.
Racing for the bronze: how to redefine goals for agile teams
If your team is struggling to deliver top-notch work, you'll need to revisit your definition of done.
Increase your team’s agility with radical transparency
The success of your org's agility isn't solely dependent on your executives. Teams have their part to do as well.
Optimize your process for decision-making, not dogma
Just because it's part of The Process doesn't mean it's the best way to do things. Earlier this year I held a webinar panel with Sense & Respond Press author Randy Silver about his new book, What do we do now?. On that panel was my former colleague Selena Hadzibabic who, today, is the vice … Continue reading Optimize your process for decision-making, not dogma
There are infinite ways to solve your business problems. Which one is right?
The team works for multiple weeks, sometimes months. And we launch, fingers crossed, looking daily (sometimes hourly) to see if our predictions were correct. But the customers don’t come at the level we predicted, and the numbers don’t move quite in the directions we’d hoped.
Without psychological safety there is no learning and there is no agility
If teams don’t feel safe sharing what they’ve learned, they’ll never be agile. Psychological safety ensures teams doing discovery can implement the feedback they learn in the process anda truly be agile.
What is an OKR? Here are the basics.
Objectives and Key Results. Ask around and you’ll hear a level of adoption across industries and domains similar to the big wave of Agile adoption in the late 00’s into the 10’s. For a 40 year old goal-setting framework, OKRs are having quite an impact on the business world. There are increasingly more books on … Continue reading What is an OKR? Here are the basics.
Your next agile project: your career
Agile is great for product development. It can be great for your career as well. Here's how.