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The Voodoo Charm
"We'll keep an eye on it". "It's on our backlog." "It's on our tech debt list". These are all examples of voodoo charms, reassuring phrases that make…
5 years, 3 months ago
The Meeting Before The Meeting
Squirrel tells a dramatic story about preparing for a meeting under huge pressure, and we discuss how valuable it is to have a solid relationship to …
5 years, 4 months ago
Vasco Duarte - Scrum Master Call to Arms: Part II
Vasco Duarte, master of Scrum, issues a call to arms for all scrum masters: you have nothing to lose but your estimates and feature factories! Noted …
5 years, 4 months ago
Vasco Duarte - Scrum Master Call to Arms: Part I
Vasco Duarte, master of Scrum, issues a call to arms for all scrum masters: you have nothing to lose but your estimates and feature factories! Noted …
5 years, 4 months ago
Business as a Second Language - with Alan Weiss
Alan Weiss has written over 60 books on consulting and advocates a no-holds-barred approach, "the martial arts of language", to business problems. He…
5 years, 4 months ago
A Conversation with Johan, Part II
In the second of a two-part series, Johan Abildskov of Eficode has a conversation with Jeffrey and Squirrel about tools for using conversations to im…
5 years, 5 months ago
A Conversation with Johan, Part I
In the first of a two-part series, Johan Abildskov of Eficode has a conversation with Jeffrey and Squirrel about culture, transparency, curiosity, an…
5 years, 5 months ago
Curating Moments of Cultural Insight
We discuss two very different stories about leaders that communicate a cultural message pithily and clearly, and reflect on why these stories were ef…
5 years, 5 months ago
Bosses From Mars
If your boss isn't helping like you think she should, maybe she's not from Mars, but actually trying to give you more autonomy. We reflect on this in…
5 years, 5 months ago
A Series of Unfortunate Ideas?
A reader asks whether following the "bad idea" advice from last episode can lead to an unrecoverable local maximum, sentencing the team to endless pa…
5 years, 5 months ago