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A Sense of Security, Gained & Lost
We reflect on chapter 3 of Agile Conversations, all about building trust as the first step to a successful agile team. We respond to a reader who had…
6 years ago
How To Improve and Why You Won't
Continuing our tour of our new book Agile Conversations, we come to our chapter on the foundational method for conversational analysis, the Four Rs. …
6 years, 1 month ago
Software Factory to Feature Factory
The first chapter of Agile Conversations is all about people-centred development, and we tell the story of our own journey from over-determined softw…
6 years, 1 month ago
Project to Product with Mik Kersten
Once again we speak with a fellow author - Mik Kersten. His book Project to Product explains, among many other things, why you shouldn't assign devel…
6 years, 1 month ago
The Road to Agile Conversations
Our book Agile Conversations is nearly out (publication date is 12 May 2020)! We reflect on how we struggled with agile adoption and accountability i…
6 years, 1 month ago
Team Topologies
We reach into the archives for an interview with Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais, authors of the definitive guide to optimizing software team structu…
6 years, 1 month ago
The Cultural Negotiator
We welcome a guest today - Mark Davis, the Cultural Negotiator. He uses a "cultural intelligence framework" to suggest how one might approach difficu…
6 years, 2 months ago
Pandemic Productivity
What we're doing these days is not "remote working"—we have people ill, kids at home, and no option to work from a cafe. But even more than this, mos…
6 years, 2 months ago
Missing Affordances for Remote Working
Switching to remote working means big shifts in the communication patterns of our teams, and the tools we use to do that make some things harder and …
6 years, 2 months ago
Active Listening for Remote Working
Active Listening is very useful for normal conversations and meetings, but even more valuable when everyone's remote. We describe the technique, give…
6 years, 2 months ago