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Hard Work Not Hard Conversation
Squirrel notices a pattern among his coaching clients: some prefer to work themselves and their teams much harder, rather than questioning a requirem…
4 years, 1 month ago
Discovering Ancient Wisdom
Description: Squirrel and Jeffrey ponder the seemingly forgot lore of their younger days and ask how those lessons will make it to the next generatio…
4 years, 1 month ago
The Cook and The Nutritionist
Squirrel and Jeffrey develop a metaphor describing effective product alignment, and suggest some ways to apply and misapply it. SHOW LINKS: - Getti…
4 years, 2 months ago
Product-Led, Product-Minded, Product-Aligned
Jeffrey defines "product-led" organisations and contrasts with "commercially-led", "project-led", and "technology-led" organisations. Squirrel disagr…
4 years, 2 months ago
What Your CEO Wants But Won't Tell You
We describe Marquet's "Psychological Ownership" and how it goes beyond the "turn signal" we've advocated before when building trust with stakeholders…
4 years, 2 months ago
As a Person, He's Great!
Squirrel notices that when a client starts by telling him how great her relationship is with someone, it almost always signals a lack of true collabo…
4 years, 2 months ago
MVP Cubed
Squirrel relates the tale of a sad client who refined their MVP so much all the business value was lost. Squirrel and Jeffrey reflect on the true mea…
4 years, 3 months ago
Why we still talk about Agile
Squirrel and Jeffrey meditate on Brian Marick's announcement that he will no longer accept talk invitations on agile development, and the (different)…
4 years, 3 months ago
The Smallest Batch is a Pair - Dragan Stepanović Part II
Dragan returns to talk with us about why small batch sizes are valuable, and how to apply this idea way beyond just release frequency, to pull reques…
4 years, 3 months ago
Monitoring and Intervening Through Pairing/Mobbing - Dragan Stepanović Part I
Dragan Stepanović joins us to discuss emotions as system signals, why intervening at the emotional level has less value, and why you should get back …
4 years, 3 months ago