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Guest Dominica Degrandis: Spend Your Daily Change Budget!
Dominica Degrandis is an expert on flow and helping companies get the benefits of using flow metrics to make systemic improvements. What does she fin…
3 years, 9 months ago
Guest Bill Bensing: Governance Like You Mean It
Audit, compliance, security, and governance: these words all carry the heavy weight of bureaucracy, the feeling of a burden to be overcome. In the r…
3 years, 9 months ago
Guest David Anderson: Burn Your Maps (but Make them First)
If you want to create a “value flywheel” where success breeds success, you need to start with clarity of purpose. Join Jeffrey and his guest David An…
3 years, 9 months ago
Predictability vs Productivity in Meetings
Want to know the agenda? We aren’t going to tell you! Join Jeffrey with guests Pascal Dufour & Ronald Doelen to talk about how the “tilted slider” ap…
3 years, 10 months ago
Estimates: A Productive Argument, Part II
Following last week's debate, Squirrel and Jeffrey share their different takes on the value of having estimated a tech team's planned work when it co…
3 years, 10 months ago
Estimates: A Productive Argument, Part I
Squirrel and Jeffrey have different takes on the value of estimating a tech team's planned work at the beginning of a longer cycle, like a sprint or …
3 years, 10 months ago
Lies, predictions, experiments, and bets
Squirrel and Jeffrey discuss various ways to make statements about the future ("this feature will take a week" or "users will buy 20% more if we cut …
3 years, 10 months ago
Fixing Burnout by Disagreeing and Disappointing
One of Jeffrey's clients solves their burnout problem, and then the same problem comes up in other coaching sessions: needing the freedom to disagree…
3 years, 11 months ago
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, 11 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, 11 months ago