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Correct vs Useful
Jeffrey tells the story of his team writing code that gives incorrect but still useful results, and we reflect on why it can be hard to choose to "pa…
4 years, 8 months ago
Unlearning Helps You Slice Your Work
Squirrel helps teams split their work into tiny "slices" they can release daily or weekly, and finds that the biggest obstacle is all the things that…
4 years, 8 months ago
The Ringfencing Trap
Squirrel tells stories of clients whose attempt to ringfence developers on certain tasks ended badly, and we explore why hiding from a difficult conv…
4 years, 9 months ago
Consciously Violating Norms
We discuss making radical change in an organisation by violating its norms in use and producing productive conflict. SHOW LINKS: - How Should the Com…
4 years, 9 months ago
Turning the Same Cranks
We consider the dynamics—or perhaps statics!—of an organisation that is stuck running the same agile processes or following an unchanging strategy, e…
4 years, 9 months ago
Daily Delivery for Designers
We discuss why daily delivery via "elephant carpaccio"—already challenging for engineers—is doubly difficult for designers, and what to do about it. …
4 years, 9 months ago
Finding a Great Company
A listener asks how to find a great company to work for, and Jeffrey and Squirrel share a few opinionated, biased heuristics for discovering great en…
4 years, 10 months ago
How Should the Company Decide?
Squirrel and Jeffrey trade stories about coaching people who feel trapped by a decision seemingly outside their control—and how a recursive question …
4 years, 10 months ago
Growth, Loss, and Emojis
Continuing our discussion of codewords as a signal of intimacy, we look at how team cohesion changes as a team grows or shrinks, and how you can anti…
4 years, 10 months ago
Codewords and Confidants
Squirrel explains how a telephone emoji helped a coaching client and we discover how codewords help build trust. SHOW LINKS: - Code words tweet: ht…
4 years, 10 months ago