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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
DataSciOps?
Squirrel tweets about isolated data-science teams, and Jeffrey tells stories of close collaboration between engineers and data scientists, even pairi…
5 years, 1 month ago
Mo’ Complaints, Mo’ Better
Squirrel and Jeffrey shock a leader they're coaching by telling him to aim to increase complaints. It turns out that Amy Edmondson, ALCOA, and Toyota…
5 years, 1 month ago
Chris Clearfield: How To Solve Impossible Problems
Our old friend Chris Clearfield explains how he helps leaders identify and fix overwhelmingly complicated organisational problems. SHOW LINKS: - Chri…
5 years, 2 months ago
In Praise of Avoiding Conflict
Jeffrey and Squirrel show you how to use "paradoxical agenda-setting" to help ensure a team or organisation is really committed—or to find out why co…
5 years, 2 months ago
Managing the Rapid-Fire Exec
Squirrel tells the story of an exec who operates at warp speed and leaves his director of technology behind in his wake. How can we best handle these…
5 years, 2 months ago
Surprise! Why are you being so hostile?
Squirrel tells the story of a conversation that took a sudden difficult turn, and we discuss methods like the Disarming Technique for handling surpri…
5 years, 2 months ago
Status in Meetings: We are All Primates
A listener asks us about why social hierarchy and popularity norms matter so much in team discussions. We riff on a number of ideas this inspires inc…
5 years, 3 months ago
CITCON 2021 Part II: Taylor was Right
At #citcon Virtual 2021, Andy Parker makes the case that Fredrick Taylor, whom we sometimes like to bash as the father of the feature factory, create…
5 years, 3 months ago
CITCON 2021 Part I: Teaching Agile Again and Again and Again
Our friends at CITCON help us think about why we feel like we're covering the same agile lessons over and over, like breaking epics down into very sm…
5 years, 3 months ago