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Conversational Transformation
Our new book is all about what people miss in their digital/agile/lean/devops transformations: cultural changes that underlie human-centred developme…
6 years, 10 months ago
Agile is Dead, Long Live Agile
Alistair Cockburn gets us thinking about how agile methods are spreading, even to non-software teams like sales. Further, we bring in the idea of War…
6 years, 10 months ago
Scoring Briefing and Back Briefing
Following on further from Avery Pennarun's intriguing article on "what executives do", we ask how, exactly, executives (and others!) can trigger acti…
6 years, 10 months ago
What Are Leaders Good For, Anyway?
We respond to an intriguing and dense article from Avery Pennarun about what executives do. He takes us back to Andy Grove’s classic High Output Mana…
6 years, 10 months ago
Ryan Singer on Basecamp and Shape Up, Part III
We conclude our conversation with Ryan Singer, Head of Strategy at Basecamp and author of Shape Up, by asking him how the team functions without requ…
6 years, 11 months ago
Ryan Singer on Basecamp and Shape Up, Part II
We continue chatting with Ryan Singer, Head of Strategy at Basecamp and author of Shape Up. Ryan explains the "shaping" and "betting" processes in mo…
6 years, 11 months ago
Ryan Singer on Basecamp and Shape Up, Part I
We start our conversation with Ryan Singer, Head of Strategy at Basecamp, by asking him to help us understand how their Shape Up process works and ho…
6 years, 11 months ago
Mining for Conflict
Squirrel adds to last week's story, describing how being transparent and curious helped him uncover a conflict that helped lead to insight and better…
6 years, 11 months ago
Boosting Emotional Signals
Squirrel tells a story in which digging for emotional signals helps a technical team find alternatives to an arbitrary-looking initiative. Jeffrey ex…
7 years ago
What is Agile, Anyway?
We saw last week how inflexible implementation killed checklists at hospitals - and the same disease affects agile development, we've found. Do you t…
7 years ago