Category: work ethic
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Agile doesn’t have a brain
My friend Bill Scott once said at a conference, “Agile doesn’t have a brain.” What he meant by that…
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Do you really have executive buy-in?
Seven years ago I moved back to the East Coast and took a job at an agency. Before accepting my…
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11 Things I Learned About Product Development from Spinal Tap
When it comes to cult classics, few movies have created a legend on par with This Is Spinal Tap. This…
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I have no idea what I’m doing
The difference between successful teams and leaders and those less so boils down to humility. Specifically, it’s being humble enough…
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Quantity trumps quality (at first)
I found the following excerpt on Derek Siver’s blog. It’s from a book called Art and Fear: The ceramics teacher…
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There is no such thing as UX strategy
2013 saw a lot of discussion around the topic of UX Strategy. In fact, there was at least one conference…
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Democratize creativity
In the industrial-era model of managing a company creativity was reserved for the executive suite. Only leaders and managers were…
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Turn Left!
Change is hard and often scary. Change in the enterprise is even scarier because it involves changing the way…
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Designers — an untapped pool of Agile leadership
Implementing an agile product development process has many challenges. One that is not regularly addressed is who will lead each…
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Purity vs. Pragmatism
“That’s not Agile!” “We’re not being lean enough.” “We’re not supposed to make deliverables!” Sound familiar?…