Category: Agile
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Core message – succeeding with OKRs
OKRs are mechanism for agreeing shared goals, communicating goals and driving action, to work everyone on the team should be included and everyone is responsible.
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Patterns for Highly Autonomous Teams & Team Energy Theory
Three patterns for highly autonomous teams and a new theory of team change
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Writing OKRs masterclass online in January
My online Writing OKRs Masterclass is back in January learn how to write OKRs, understanding what makes good OKRs and what to avoid!
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How do I combine OKRs with KPIs?
To combined OKRs and KPIs start by understanding what you KPIs are
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The first agile transformation failure
The first agile transformation failure was 15 years before the manifesto.
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Little book of workflow management
I have a confession to make. I recently published a series of articles not on this blog, and not even in my newsletter. I wanted to try something a bit different. I wanted to try writing short descriptions of the working techniques agile teams use but without using the word agile, referring to software development, […]
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Embracing shared leadership
The idea of shared leadership better describes modern work teams and resolves problems around self-organising and self-managing teams
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Why I’m talking about Modern Management
We need an updated management model. Outdated, and plain bad, management are are a problem. Modern management includes agile, good jobs, psychological safety and more.
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Massing saving on Succeeding with OKRs in Agile this week
Succeeding with OKRs in Agile – massive price cut for this week only
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Employees: growth driver or cost to trim?
Bad jobs are depressing and costing our company more money than they save. Good jobs are a growth driver for companies and make for happier employees.
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OKRs: webinars and workshops (3 short things)
An OKR workshop, an OKR podcast and summer
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6 ideas to boost productivity
6 ideas to increase productivity
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Help – a survey about product leaders
I’m running a little survey – 5 minutes of your time – about the people and roles who decide what should be done, or perhaps what should be built. The people who are often called Product Owners or Product Managers, and often Business Analysts, perhaps Requirements enigneers or… a myriad of other titles. I’m generically […]
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Spending when uncertainty is high
When uncertainty is high the classic investment and governance model needs rethinking.
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Playing Value Poker in the Dagons’ Den
Teams are quick to assign effort estimates to stories so why not estimate value? – how else can you prioritise by business value?
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Focus on flow
People can be so productive in the state of flow, but creating flow in an organization is harder, there are more moving parts. Luckily we can improve our ability to see and reason about flow.
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In search of flow
Every team is in search of flow. The Featureban game is great at illustrating flow, now I have a new video and workshop to simulate a Kanban system and flow.
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First get small, next get broad
You can’t beat thinking small for delivery, but you need to think broad when thinking about what is needed. But thinking small and broad is hard.
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All agile initiatives are flawed (and thats good)
Agile is a lot like democracy. Every single agile transformation initiative is flawed. For many that is a good thing, because it means we can see the things that need fixing
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