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Process Zealots and Anti-Zealots
Squirrel has a suggestion for collaborating with people who are irrationally wedded to particular "agile processes", and Jeffrey has related ideas fo…
3 years, 9 months ago
Precision Tuning
Squirrel describes how deals with overly vague strategy descriptions: tune them until they’re specific enough that someone could disagree with them. …
3 years, 9 months ago
Adversarial Analysis
Squirrel describes how he tells clients to handle overly specific, too-coherent directions: consider what an adversary would do to comply with the di…
3 years, 9 months ago
Directive vs Mutual Learning
A client challenges Squirrel on his directive style when coaching, wondering whether this clashes with his espoused belief in joint design and inquir…
3 years, 9 months ago
Terrified The Engineers Will Quit
Squirrel and Jeffrey trade stories about leaders who live in fear of key software developers leaving, and therefore avoid honest feedback and effecti…
3 years, 10 months ago
Product Owner vs Process Owner
Responding to a listener's question, Jeffrey and Squirrel reflect on the difference between a product owner and a process owner, and how IT projects …
3 years, 10 months ago
Forced To Excel
We look at why "prop trading" companies like Jane Street have phenomenally profitable technology operations, and how we can learn from them and impro…
3 years, 10 months ago
Ford not Ferrari: Feature Thinning and Return on Investment
Squirrel and Jeffrey look at two ways to "thin" features to achieve a better return on investment, for both customer features and productivity improv…
3 years, 10 months ago
Summer Shorts and Learning Loops: OKRs
Taking iterative development to heart, Squirrel and Jeffrey discuss a learning loop topic, Summer Shorts and Learning Loops: OKRs, in five minutes or…
3 years, 10 months ago
Summer Shorts and Learning Loops: Retrospectives
Taking iterative development to heart, Squirrel and Jeffrey discuss a learning loop topic, Summer Shorts and Learning Loops: Retrospectives, in five …
3 years, 11 months ago