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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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 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…
5 years 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 …
5 years 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…
5 years 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…
5 years ago
Don't Add More Metrics!
If you're already struggling to hit targets, don't add more! Recommendations for improving performance without overcomplication. SHOW LINKS: - Tilted…
5 years, 1 month ago
Tech Lead, Team Lead, Manager, Mentor
Squirrel rants about matrix management and then Jeffrey calms him down by describing self-managing team structures that work better. They agree that …
5 years, 1 month ago